Europe

Aurora Energy Research's Panos Kefalas examines Southeastern Europe's energy landscape, including grid infrastructure and co-location.

After a steep decline in inverter shipments in the last quarter of 2023, Solaredge has started the first quarter of 2024 with an increase to 946MW.

SMA Solar has published its financial results for the first quarter of the year, which include falling sales in the home and C&I sectors.

For the second year in a row, solar PV outpaced wind in global electricity growth generation in 2023, according to energy think tank Ember.

Clean energy manufacturing – led by solar PV expansions – accounted for 4% of global GDP growth in 2023, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The Italian government has banned solar PV installations on agricultural land in a move that the nation’s solar trade association said would cost Italy €60 billion (US$64.5 billion).

Finnish energy company Ilmatar plans to build a 450MW solar PV project in the county of Halland, southwest Sweden.

Danish solar developer Nordic Solar has powered a 100MW PV plant in Lithuania, the country’s largest operational solar project.

Italian solar manufacturing machinery producer Ecoprogetti has installed a new, 250MW automated production line at a facility in Bulgaria.

Future heterojunction technology (HJT) solar cells may require significantly less silver to produce, according to findings from researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).