Europe

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

Soltec has published its financial results for the first half of the year, in which the company posted revenues of €184.5 million.

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.

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.

A SolarPower Europe report has found that the sector’s workforce grew from around 466,000 to over 648,000 jobs between 2021 and 2022.

In the last two weeks, new solar projects, or deals involving existing facilities, have been struck in Sweden, Senegal and Uruguay.

UK-headquartered renewables developer Ethical Power has entered the Italian solar PV market with plans for a 250MW project pipeline and a new country manager, Francesca Cavallini.

Spanish solar developer Solaria has signed off a financing framework with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for up to €1.7 billion (US$1.8 billion) to be deployed on 120 solar PV plants across Spain, Italy and Portugal.