Europe

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo looks at Southern Europe, where pricing, grid capacity and the ban of PV on farmland are causing headaches.

One of the first projects to benefit from Sunly's securing the €300 million debt financing is a 244MW solar PV plant in Estonia.

Europe and the US could need to announce close to 200GW of new clean energy capacity by 2030 to meet the world’s energy transition goals.

Enfinity Global is currently building 416MW of capacity in Italy across 17 projects, which have secured long-term power purchase agreements.

Zvi Lando had been in the post for five years and served as SolarEdge’s VP of global sales for ten years prior to that.

With the involvement of new companies in solar, this influx of actors without experience could pose risks for solar project financing.

Caroline Plaza looks at how new business models involving farmers, landowners and energy companies could open up new opportunities in agriPV.

A new research project, announced this week, will seek to bolster intellectual property (IP) and patent protection for European companies developing new solar cell technologies.

Consisting of two projects, the Iepuresti (169MW) and Ghimpati (146MW) plants are located in the southeastern region of Muntenia.

BayWa r.e. has completed the construction of five solar farms, with a combined capacity of 136MW, on two former military bases in France.