Europe

If Portugal wants to bring forward its target to have 9GW of installed capacity by 2026 rather than the end of the decade, it will need to solve one of its main barriers it faces at the moment: permitting issues.

PV Tech spoke with Peter Dickson, partner at Glennmont Partners, one of Europe’s largest renewable energy investment managers, about PPAs, legislation and price capping. 

IRENA said a total of 192GW of solar capacity was installed in 2022, up 22% yoy.

The number of residential solar and storage systems installed in Germany increased 52% in 2022 compared with the previous year, whilst three quarters of Germans would consider installing rooftop solar.

Brookfield Renewable acquires a 50% stake in renewable developer X-Elio from its joint venture partner and investment firm KKR. 

An overwhelming majority of Germans believed that an accelerated expansion of renewables was important, but not everyone from this category agreed to install power plants in their neighbourhoods, according to KfW Research. 

Photon Energy Group has closed a €21.9 million non-recourse project refinancing agreement for eight power plants with capacity of 31.5MWp.

This article will cover both the rooftop and large-scale PV segments in more detail, with the shift from net-metering to net-billing and the stagnancy over pricing in large-scale auctions.

Fixed DC-coupled architecture for solar-plus-storage is slowly becoming an industry standard for hybrid resources projects with greater benefits.

With just 2GW of solar installed at the end of 2019, Poland has seen a meteoric rise towards becoming the third largest solar PV market in Europe in terms of installations.