[Solar: Italy adds 483.66MW of PV capacity in June]

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.

The Philippines’ Energy Regulatory Commission is working to modernize the country’s transmission grid through the 2026 edition of the Philippine Grid Code, aiming to better accommodate variable renewables such as solar and storage technologies including BESS and pumped hydro. The updated code will introduce technical requirements for solar-plus-storage plants and standalone storage systems using grid-forming inverters to improve grid stability and system response, alongside new cybersecurity, planning, reserve and reliability rules. ERC is also proposing reforms to net metering and distributed energy resources, including shortening net-metering interconnection timelines from 20 to 10 working days, removing the 1MW DER cap, allowing multi-site crediting and prioritizing renewable dispatch in off-grid areas. SMM believes these grid and net-metering reforms could accelerate residential, C&I solar and solar-plus-storage deployment as electricity tariffs and solar import demand rise in the Philippines.

[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.