Europe

Pipeline of active pre-build large-scale solar farms (>250kWp) sees significant growth over past six months, with total capacity breaking 4.2GW mark.

Chunk of new €34.2m renewable subsidy programme will finance self PV generation at homes and businesses across southern region.

Firm’s Iberian unsubsidised portfolio hits 116MW mark after signing deal for 10MW PV cluster to supply power to corporate’s steel mills.

Asia becomes major driver of 94GW PV addition worldwide, with other frontrunners including the US, Australia, Germany, Brazil, Egypt and Mexico.

Hongbin Fang, technical director of LONGi Solar says mono-PERC technology, including bifacial, will form the backbone of the solar sector in the immediate future.

Occitanie-based LUXEL has 1GW of assets either in operation, construction-ready or in development.

LSS2019 special report: Top official lays out how EU legislation will ease PV’s struggles with PPAs, permitting and policy u-turns as it works to become mainstream.

Awarding of 505.2MW from collective bids of 869MW is a positive turn for sector but land restrictions will stifle deployment, says Germany’s BSW Solar.

The LEGO holding company and investment fund KIRKBI has acquired the US arm of solar developer Enerparc.

LSS2019 special report: Sophisticated, integrated, data-savvy players are better positioned to outpace rivals in an unsubsidised era, say industry names.