solar generation

For the first month ever, solar PV has made up 25% of monthly electricity generation across the European Union in June 2026.

German solar PV generation has continued to grow in the first half of 2026, reaching a new all-time high of 43.2TWh.

In our latest article in the NEM Data Spotlight Series, we observe that March saw declines in both utility-scale and rooftop solar.

Solar PV has met two-thirds (61%) of the US electricity demand growth in 2025, according to a report from think tank Ember.

Germany has installed 16.2GW of solar PV in 2025, according to an analysis by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) based on the energy-charts.info data platform.

For the first time ever, solar PV was the biggest source of electricity in June 2025, according to data from energy think tank Ember.

Many European countries generated record levels of solar power in the first half of 2025, according to figures from Fraunhofer ISE.

More than a quarter of the European Union’s (EU) electricity (27%) came from solar and wind in 2023, according to new analysis from energy thinktank Ember.

Solar PV has led the European Union’s growth in renewable energy generation during the first half of 2023, up 13% from H1 2022.

Japan will need to have 689GW of total installed capacity for solar and wind power generation by 2050 to reach the goal of net zero, according to a study conducted by BloombergNEF (BNEF).