Agence France-Presse: Germany, the world’s biggest market for solar cells, is poised to slash its subsidies for solar power by as much as 17 percent, Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said on Tuesday. “I envisage an order of magnitude of 16 to 17 percent,” Bruederle said at an energy conference in Berlin. Electricity produced by solar power in Germany is sold at a minimum price guaranteed by the government to help producers compete with firms using fossil fuels and nuclear power that can produce …