Europe

German renewable energy developer BayWa r.e., along with its Dutch subsidiary GroenLeven, has sold a 46MW floating solar PV (FPV) project in the northern province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

'The UK market has matured,' Guy Lavarack, chief investment officer at the Luminous Energy Group, tells PV Tech Premium this week.

PV Talk: Luminous Energy's Guy Lavarack says that interface risk, grid risk and talent risk are all key risk factors in Europe.

The latest edition of our print journal, PV Tech Power, is out today and available to download, where we deep dive into PV quality assurance.

PV Talk: Paul Gebhardt of Fraunhofer ISE discusses reliability issues facing advanced PV modules, an issue which isn't going anywhere.

Spanish IPP Grenergy has secured a senior non-recourse financing agreement worth €98.8 million for the172MW Ayora solar PV project in Spain.

Renewables developer ib vogt has sold the 95.18MW Baobab solar PV project in Segovia, central Spain, to a subsidiary of Swiss independent power producer (IPP) EOS NER.

Germany has revised down the price ceiling for roof-mounted solar PV systems to €0.1/kWh (US$0.117/kWh) for tenders to be held in 2026.

The global solar inverter industry will contract over the next two years as major markets in China, Europe and the US confront new volatility, according to energy market analyst Wood Mackenzie.  

The EU’s Economic Security Doctrine has identified solar inverters as a high-risk dependency, a move which the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC) has lauded.