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EU Installs 65.1 GW of Solar in 2025

The European Union’s solar fleet has reached 406 GW, surpassing the EU Solar Strategy’s 400 GW goal for 2025, but SolarPower Europe says the sector’s first contraction in a decade is putting the bloc’s 750 GW target for 2030 at risk.

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The European Union is going through a critical moment in its energy transition: the collapse of the pace of installation of new solar power has triggered all the alarms and puts at risk the achievement of the climate targets set for 2030. After several years of accelerated growth, driven by the lower rate of photovoltaic technology and the urgency generated by the energy crisis, the European solar market is now experiencing a historic slowdown t…

It is the first market decline since 2016. However, the European photovoltaics association expects two more difficult years before the current level is reached again in 2030. Europe-wide, the demand for private photovoltaic roofing systems is weakening. Germany claims to be Europe's undisputed leader. This year's addition to the EU photovoltaic market fell by 0.7 percent to 65.1 gigawatts compared to the previous year. This was the first year's …

The European Union (EU) has installed 65.1 gigawatts of new solar power generation capacity in 2025, which allows it to meet its annual target, despite a 0.7% contraction compared to the advance of last year, but represents the first slowdown since 2016. With this data, the sector fears that the target set for 2030 will not be met. "The years of solar energy boom in the EU during the 2020s are over," says the European solar industry employer Sol…

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pv magazine International broke the news in on Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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