Projects

As Europe is increasing its solar PV capacity to reach its goal in the REPowerEU plan, countries in the bloc are accelerating solar PV installation. But some EU countries also look at the solar potential in North Africa, as the region boasts better solar irradiance and longer sunshine hours.

Latin America-focused solar developer Atlas Renewable Energy has commissioned 600MW of solar PV in Brazil.

French oil giant TotalEnergies has acquired Ombrea, an agrivoltaics developer, for an undisclosed sum.

France has awarded 1.5GW of ground-mounted solar PV capacity in its latest auction, concluded this week (26th September).

LONGi has signed a deal to supply 100.1MW of its modules to renewables developer R.Power for projects in its native Poland.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has completed construction of its first hybrid solar-wind plant in Spain and is working towards commissioning it.

UAE-based renewables developer AMEA Power has reached financial close on a 120MW solar PV project in Tunisia, the company’s first foray into the country.

How community solar and agrivoltaics can help boost and improve the design phase of an agriPV project based on the crop grown.

Masdar and PLN Nusantara Power will expand the capacity of the 145MW Cirata floating solar project in Indonesia to up to 500MW.

The expansion of solar PV and battery storage is keeping the global net zero 1.5 degree pathway open, and the current host of planned manufacturing capacity expansions will be enough to meet demand by 2030.