Markets & Finance

Private equity firm Antin Infrastructure Partners has made a voluntary offer to buy the entirety of the shares of Spanish renewable energy developer Opdenergy for €866 million (US$935 million).

SmartestEnergy has signed a power purchase agreement with Mytilineos for the latter’s proposed Kingaroy solar farm in Queensland, Australia.

PV manufacturer Meyer Burger and German developer Baywa r.e have signed  a 1.25GW module supply deal in the US which will see Baywa r.e receive Meyer Burger panels from 2025 through 2029.

US solar manufacturer CubicPV has received US$103 million in equity financing to support its plans to develop a US silicon wafer production base.

BSW forecasts a “double-digit percentage” growth in Germany's demand for solar power systems by the end of the year.

Duke Energy has agreed to sell its clean power arm to Brookfield Renewable in a deal valued at US$2.8 billion.

2022 saw the solar PV market enter a ‘new growth dimension’, where 239GW of solar capacity was added across the world representing two thirds of all new renewables capacity.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo explores how Eastern and Southern European countries have emerged in the race as key players for the European Union to reach 740GW of solar capacity installed by 2030.

Axpo has published its financial results for the first half of the 2022/23 financial year, reporting "exceptional" income and earnings.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has signed a financing agreement worth €1 billion (US$1.08 billion) with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to build 19 solar power plants and three onshore wind farms in Europe.