Europe

Despite an awareness of the benefits that co-located storage and solar can offer, the commercial model for such sites has yet to materialise.

The Renewables Obligation (RO) has incentivised UK clean electricity generation since 2002 through Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs).

The Global Solar Council (GSC) and Global Wind Organisation (GWO) will develop a set of standards for the world’s solar PV technicians.

Polish independent power producer (IPP) R.Power has started contracting a 134MWp solar PV portfolio in Poland.

The policy environment for solar PV in Europe needs to be balanced between the interests of developers and other industry parties, according to speakers at today’s Large Scale Solar Europe conference in Lisbon.

Bifacial technology has become increasingly widely adopted and is estimated to account for 40% of all new deployments by 2028.

Spain has installed 5.6GW of ground-mounted capacity in 2023, up 28% from 2022, according to the country’s transmission system operator, Red Eléctrica.

Trina Solar has signed an agreement with renewables wholesaler CCL Energy Group to supply 1.2GW of i-TOPCon modules to Europe.

Chinese-owned solar PV manufacturer Astronergy has delivered 125MW worth of solar PV modules to Polish engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company Solartech.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has planned to invest €15.5 billion (US$17 billion) in renewables by 2026 and commission 6GW of solar PV and onshore wind by 2027.