Europe

Proventus providing €80 million credit facility to Better Energy, ADFD approves US$10M for rural electrification project in Burkina Faso, SolarHome raises US$ 1 million from Trirec.

ADB offers US$100m for renewables in Pacific Islands, PetroSolar connects 20MW Filipino plant to Luzon grid, University of Queensland starts building 64MW solar farm, Technique Solaire bags financing for 47MW France portfolio.

200MW solar project – said to be the third largest PV plant in Europe – jointly built by China's CMEC and Ukraine's DTEK, mostly using Chinese equipment.

Industry continues last year’s trend as it reaps all awards at oversubscribed 210MW tender, with 18 bids contracted at an average €0.0566/kWh price.

Ellomay Capital’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Ellomay Luxembourg Holdings, will sell 49% of the outstanding shares of Talasol Solar to GSE 3 UK Limited and Fond-ICO Infraestructuras II.

UK player divests majority portfolio share to undisclosed buyer days after separate reports suggested a sale of the entire firm is being mulled.

Fraunhofer ISE will validate and refine DuPont's accelerated testing methods with a view to improving on the current IEC protocols.

IPP hits 244MW capacity mark in European country after acquiring five solar car parks from Glennmont, an infra investor fast divesting PV assets.

Rendeavour has installed its first solar power plant in Kenya, as part of a 30MW strategy for Tatu City, the company's new city development in Nairobi.

EBRD to help country tender 25MW of PV and 80MW of wind in 2019 and 2020 even as global experts argue 4.5GW of solar is possible if economics improve.