Germany continued its strong solar momentum in 2025, installing 16.2 GW of new solar PV capacity, according to an analysis by Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, based on data from the energy-charts.info platform. This expansion pushed the country’s cumulative installed solar capacity to 116.8 GW by the end of the year—comfortably surpassing the federal government’s 108 GW target for 2025.