Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

Portugal has updated its national energy and climate plan (NECP) and targets an installed capacity of 20.4GW of solar PV by 2030.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo caught up with Vladimir Tabutov, founder and CEO of Bulgarian solar power project developer HEC Solar, following Solar Media’s Large Scale Solar Europe event in Lisbon, Portugal. They spoke about recent and upcoming changes in the Bulgarian regulations regime for adopting renewable energy technology.

French energy major TotalEnergies has acquired a combined 208MW of solar PV capacity in Romania from Germany-based renewables developer PNE.

Gyanesh Chaudhary, Vikram Solar’s chairman, tells PV Tech Premium about the company’s first vertical integration and manufacturing facility abroad and how it was driven by the IRA and recent cell capacity wins in India.

US utility Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) has received approval from Louisiana regulators to acquire 200MW of solar resources.

Spanish developer Grenergy has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for its Gran Teno solar park in Chile.

Specialty contracting company Primoris Services has been awarded 1.4GW of solar projects located in the Southwest US.

As PV projects become more and more common in the Nordics, wind players like OX2 are entering the solar market with large-scale projects.

Tom Kenning on one of the most promising up-and-coming solar power players of Southern Europe, Greece. He asked experts about the challenges and opportunities for PV in the country.

The Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) in Spain has updated its National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) with an increased target for solar PV of 76GW by 2030.