Europe

Romania has released information concerning its upcoming first round of Contract for Difference (CfD) which seeks 1GW of solar PV.

Stuti Gupta, Solar Lead at Prescinto, an AI-powered asset performance management platform for solar, wind and energy storage assets, and Prescinto Performance Excellence Head Abhishek Puttanna on the role of artificial intelligence in monitoring and optimising photovoltaic assets.

EDP plans to invest €2.5 billion over the next three years to install an additional 4GW of distributed solar capacity around the world.

AXA Investment Managers' investment arm AXA IM Alts has bought 25% stake in in Iberian renewables platform Finerge from Igneo Infrastructure Partners.

With multiple European countries submitting their revised National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) in recent months, the European Union (EU) is targeting an extra 90GW of solar capacity by 2030.

French-headquartered independent power producer (IPP) Qair has secured a PLN335.3 million (US$83.1 million) loan for 130MW of solar PV projects in Poland.

To enable the clean energy transition, energy investors and producers want certainty, which can come through power purchase agreements.

As solar PV continues its accelerated growth, 2023 is expected to be no exception with 270GW of capacity to be added, according to Wood Mackenzie.

The European Commission has approved a €2.36 billion (US$2.6 billion) Hungarian scheme to accelerate investment towards renewables manufacturing.

Polish renewables developer Pas Res will build two solar PV plants in northern Poland with a total capacity of 117MW.