Overview
- The milestone reported by BSW‑Solar using Fraunhofer ISE Energy‑Charts showed 90.2 terawatt‑hours of solar electricity produced by 27 September 2026 versus 90.0 TWh in all of 2025, marking a year‑to‑date record.
- The record is credited to unusually many sunshine hours and continued capacity growth across rooftops, commercial sites and ground‑mounted parks, with Germany reaching roughly 6.3 million installations and nearly 130 GW of PV capacity by end‑August 2026.
- Policy measures proposed in the EEG‑Novelle and the Netzpaket would introduce regional steering of new build‑out, change how grid curtailment and compensation are handled, and remove permanent support for systems under 25 kW from 2027.
- Industry groups warn the draft rules could sharply reduce rooftop demand and complicate project finance, with reports that the sector expects rooftop uptake could fall by more than 70% and nearly twenty banks flagging financing risks in an open letter.
- Solar is already a material part of Germany’s power mix — renewables supplied 59.1% of fed‑in electricity in H1 2026 and solar accounted for 17.8% — so the coming parliamentary decisions on the EEG and Netzpaket will shape investment, household returns, and the pace of the Energiewende.