Australian energy retailer SmartestEnergy has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with renewable energy project owner Octopus Group to offtake 25% generation from a solar farm.
Greek transmission system operator Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) has signed a long-term loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance a power connector between mainland Greece and outlying islands.
CubicPV, a US solar manufacturer backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, is looking to leverage support included in the country’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to set up what it claims will be the largest PV wafer manufacturing facility outside of China.
Norwegian distributed solar marketplace Otovo has secured €120 million (US$130 million) in debt and equity financing to expand its residential solar portfolio across Europe.
Solar PV manufacturer Qcells has signed a deal with Microsoft to supply at least 2.5GW of its modules to projects from which the tech giant will purchase renewable energy.