Solar generated record 25% of EU power in June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race

For the first month ever, solar power provided a quarter of the EU’s electricity this June. Solar generated a record 52 TWh of EU electricity in June 2026, making up 25 per cent of monthly generation for the bloc. This beat solar’s previous monthly high of 47 TWh (23 per cent) in May 2026. Solar was the EU’s largest single source of power for the month, ahead of nuclear (21 per cent), gas (15 per cent), wind (14 per cent) and hydro (12 per cent), with coal generating just 8 per cent. This is only the third month that solar has been the EU’s largest source of power, after June 2025 and May 2026. “Solar’s rise has been truly stratospheric, beating prediction after prediction,” says Chris Rosslowe, senior analyst at Ember think tank which did the analysis. “In just a few years solar has gone