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Italy added 8,224 new PV systems totaling 483.66MW in June 2026, alongside 4,656 new energy storage installations, according to Terna. In the first half of 2026, Italy added 3.09GW of solar capacity, while additions over the past 12 months reached 6.72GW, up 16.85% year on year. By the end of June, Italy’s cumulative PV capacity reached 46.61GW, accounting for 53.6% of the country’s total renewable energy capacity. On storage, Italy had 943,729 electrochemical systems paired with renewables by the end of June, with total capacity of 11.94GWh and output of 6.00GW. SMM believes Italy’s PV and behind-the-meter storage markets remain on a growth path, with solar continuing to increase its share in the renewable energy mix.

Germany installed around 1.28GW of new PV capacity in June 2026, nearly unchanged from 1.29GW in May and above 1.1GW in June 2025, according to the Federal Network Agency. New PV additions reached 7.39GW in the first half of 2026, slightly below around 8GW in the same period last year. Germany’s cumulative installed solar capacity reached 125.2GW by the end of June. Ground-mounted systems accounted for the largest share of June additions at 572.7MW, while rooftop systems added 493.8MW across nearly 32,400 installations. Plug-in solar devices added another 51.7MW. SMM believes Germany’s monthly PV additions remain elevated, although first-half growth has slowed slightly year on year, with rooftop and ground-mounted connection trends still worth monitoring.

[SMM Silicon-based PV Morning Brief: Cell Prices Consolidate at Lows, Pace of Glass Production Cuts Accelerates] Transaction price ranges for Topcon cells of various sizes remain stable, with 183N and 210R holding steady at 0.265–0.27 Yuan/W. At the current stage, the market’s momentum for sustained low-price selling has notably weakened. Combined with some producers releasing production cut plans, enterprises’ willingness to actively dump at low prices has diminished, and the futures market has entered a phase of short-term weak stabilization. However, end-use demand has not shown substantial improvement, and downstream procurement remains predominantly wait-and-see. A small number of low-priced actual orders can still be negotiated in the market, and the supply-demand pressure pattern in the industry has not been fully resolved.