How exactly do you think Germany (as a whole) could profit from this? With the EEG (Energie-Einspeise-Gesetz), the German government created an artificial solar

How exactly do you think Germany (as a whole) could profit from this? With the EEG (Energie-Einspeise-Gesetz), the German government created an artificial solar bubble which is costing electricity customers several billions of Euros each year, only to fill the pockets of (mostly Chinese) panel producers, homeowners and companies who install that stuff, and last but not least the banks (most installations are financed by credit). The amount of electricity actually produced is almost neglible (a meager 3.1% in 2011), whereas the consumer price has almost doubled since 2005, and is now one of the highest in the world. Even if you assume that this giant experiment in planned economy would somehow lead to technological breakthroughs, making producing electricity via solar economically feasible in the long term, Germany would still have to recover the cost of 20+ years of subventions (which already amount to over 100 billion €, and that's only a fraction of the total sum which has been guaranteed by the EEG), while other countries with much better climatic conditions would be able to reap the majority of the profits.