Europe

Finland’s Taaleri walks PV Tech through solar investment rationale of SolarWind II Fund, which has just secured €219m of a €300m target.

Government confirms 10GW across 64 projects has applied for support from two-layered 1.4GW tender, meant to award contracts later this summer.

Legislative clarity and tax deductions could help fuel 40-fold boom of solar to power 10% of electricity mix in Nordic state, says industry lobby Svensk Solenergi.

Mercom: US$300m ReNew Power deal and stock exchange listings help industry raise US$6bn in H1 2019 from venture capitalists, public markets and debt providers.

According to the latest ‘Solar EPC and O&M Provider Tracker’ report from IHS Markit, the EPC sector has yet to experience any effective market leaders or consolidation.

Policy and market signals could see UK capture 22TWh opportunity from helping corporates meet clean energy pledges, London event hears.

Chint Solar says many new innovations are so closely linked to predecessors they are instantly ‘bankable’.

Zurich firm cites bleak outlook of global inverter segment as it moves to offload liability-ridden unit to Italian group FIMER, in return for hefty compensation.

Project will be realised under Ukraine’s 10-year feed-in tariff scheme and is expected to power up to 27,000 households.

JinkoSolar Supplies 7.8MW for two PV plants in Hungary, 10MW solar farm connected in Afghanistan, Vietnamese firm completes 50MW project in Ninh Thuan, Photon Energy connects 2.1MW of projects in Hungary, First solar plant in Iran's Khorasan Razavi completed.