FACTBOX: Sales exposure to Germany's solar market

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German government said Wednesday it would propose to cut solar feed-in tariffs -- prices utilities have to pay generators of renewable energy -- by an additional 15 percent.

With Germany being the world's biggest solar market by installed capacity, this will put pressure on industry players around the world.

Following are key facts about some of the world's biggest solar companies and their sales exposure to Germany based on the latest available information:

* Q-Cells, one of the world biggest makers of solar cells, made 56 percent of its sales in the first nine months of 2009 in Germany.

* U.S. First Solar, set to become the world's largest maker of solar cells, said it made 60-70 percent of its sales in Germany last year.

* SolarWorld, Germany's biggest solar company by revenue, made 67 percent, or 428 million euros ($607.9 million), in Germany in the first nine months of 2009.

* Germany accounts for about half of China's Yingli Green Energy global panel sales, and more than half at Suntech Power.

* SMA Solar, the world's biggest maker of solar inverters, made more than 70 percent of nine-months sales in Germany.

* Solar module maker Solon generated about 50 percent of its nine-months revenue in Germany, while at wholesaler Phoenix Solar, the country accounted for 95 percent of sales during the same period.

(Compiled by Christoph Steitz in Frankfurt, Leonora Walet in Hong Kong and Laura Isensee in Los Angeles; Editing by Sharon Lindores) ($1=.7040 Euro)