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While the world is struggling with shortage of fossil fuels energy and seeking for alternatives to it over the past several years, experts and investors have already identified renewable energy as alternative energies for fossil fuels and nuclear power. Among different types of energies, solar energy is considered as one of the most environmental friendly source. Not to mention that investment in solar photovoltaic (PV) industry had become a boom especially after the 21st century. However, due to the volatile of demand and changing patterns in manufacturing and distribution between several countries, the industry started to collapse. For this reason, many of PV related companies eventually have gone bankruptcy. Several methods, such as efficiency, responsiveness and agility, which are used to measure competitive factors for a company, have already been widely applied. Nevertheless adaptability is still a new and largely unexplored area. As a result, our research aims to develop a mechanism to measure supply chain adaptability under radical environment by building up case studies and extracting potential elements for metrics of solar PV industry. Qualitative research is conducted as our methodology, which combined with company reports, industry statistics, literature review and six semi-structured interviews with solar energy related companies in Germany. In our case studies, six companies specialize in different aspects of solar PV supply chain and demonstrate different emphasis regarding the adaptability of supply chain. Based on our result, company could assess their individual contributions and evaluate what abilities they are insufficient for preventing the risks involved when encountering volatile changes in the market.