Europe

French utility EDF has received a development consent order (DCO) from the UK government to build an 800MW solar PV plant in England.

Italy is the most attractive European country for solar development, according to the chief of staff of German independent power producer (IPP), Encavis.

PV Talk: JP Kock of IPP Encavis discusses why the competitive landscape of Europe's solar market is in store for a shake-up.

Societe Generale and the EIB have signed a US$178.9 million financing agreement for the construction of a 137MW solar PV project in Italy.

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE claim to have reduced the silver content of TOPCon solar cells tenfold.

Turkey must deploy around 8GW of new capacity annually to meet its 2035 target of 120GW of installed solar and wind, a new report says.

The world added more than 200GW of new utility-scale solar PV capacity in 2025, according to figures from Wiki-Solar.

PV manufacturing capital expenditure is expected to rebound this year, following two years in the doldrums as the industry weathered a global oversupply of modules, new figures show.

After a sharp decline in 2023, PV manufacturing capital expenditure is set to bounce back this year, and not just in China, writes Moustafa Ramadan.

The PPC Group has completed construction of a 2.13GW solar PV portfolio in Greece, which it described as the "largest" cluster in Europe.