Europe

Swedish thin-film PV manufacturer Midsummer has abandoned from plans to build a new 200MW cell manufacturing facility in its home country.

Europe’s PV fleet has removed the need for over €30 billion (US$34.74 billion) in gas imports since the start of the Iran conflict.

The Bundesnetzagentur has launched its third rooftop solar PV tender of the year, which aims to award 296.3MW of new rooftop solar capacity.

The Spanish government has unveiled plans to require data centres to have at least 80% of their hourly generation be powered by renewable energy.

Germany-headquartered inverter manufacturer SMA Solar is expanding its Large Scale and Project Solutions business to cater for the fast-growing data centre market.

WElink Energy Portugal 2, the owner of Portugal’s largest solar PV project, has entered administration, owing debts of US$77.7 million.

Fraunhofer ISE has developed what it described as 'industry-ready' semi-transparent PV modules with a conversion efficiency of up to 9.26%.

Scatec has reported quarter-on-quarter growth in revenue and operational solar PV capacity in its latest financial results.

The average selling price of full black, back contact and monofacial TOPCon modules in Europe has continued to increase.

Germany’s federal network agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has allocated 2,135MW of PV in the country’s latest ground-mounted solar auction.