2008 was characterised by numerous projects of MW-range photovoltaic (PV) power plants, and it was also the year with the highest market growth related to large-scale photovoltaic systems ever. Not only in Spain, where progress is abundantly clear, but in some other countries the cumulative installed power increased significantly. In the European Union progress was, among others, observed in Italy, the Czech Republic and France; the German market decreased slightly, but due to the market explosion in Spain the installed power from 2008 still reached the level of the previous year.