Europe

BSW forecasts a “double-digit percentage” growth in Germany's demand for solar power systems by the end of the year.

2022 saw the solar PV market enter a ‘new growth dimension’, where 239GW of solar capacity was added across the world representing two thirds of all new renewables capacity.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo explores how Eastern and Southern European countries have emerged in the race as key players for the European Union to reach 740GW of solar capacity installed by 2030.

Axpo has published its financial results for the first half of the 2022/23 financial year, reporting "exceptional" income and earnings.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has signed a financing agreement worth €1 billion (US$1.08 billion) with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to build 19 solar power plants and three onshore wind farms in Europe.

Enel Green Power’s Sicilian subsidiary 3Sun has developed a 9cm squared silicon-perovskite tandem PV cell in partnership with the French national institute of solar energy (INES) and the CEA, a French government-funded research institution.

Independent power producer (IPP) AMPYR Solar Europe has secured a €200 million (US$215 million) framework project finance facility with Dutch bank Rabobank.

Heron has signed PPAs with Meton Energy, which will add three new solar projects with an annual production of 192GWh to Heron’s portfolio.

PV Tech Premium talks to Slovenian solar company Bisol and the International Polar Foundation about features of renewable energy production at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station. 

Lithuanian software company PVcase has acquired US solar siting software platform Anderson Optimization.