Europe

Global alternative asset manager Blackstone Infrastructure has completed the acquisition of a 24.7% stake in Danish IPP Eurowind Energy.

Austrian renewable energy company Kelag International has acquired a 64.4MWp portfolio of agrivoltaics projects in Italy.

Poland’s Energy Regulatory Office (URE) has scheduled a solar PV and onshore wind auction to be held on 9-10 November 2026.

SMA has opened a new Gigawatt Factory in Niestetal, Germany, expanding its manufacturing capacity for utility-scale energy technologies.

This week's PV Chart of the Week looks at the breakdown in forecast global PV module shipments by country/region.

German IPP Encavis has closed a financing package for a 351MW solar PV portfolio in Italy.

Spain has announced plans to create a capacity market for the national electricity system in order to secure 'security of supply'.

Zelestra has signed a PPA with German steel manufacturer Salzgitter Flachstahl for a new solar-plus-storage portfolio in Germany.

Over 90% of solar industry professionals report a growing project deployment pipeline in 2026, but new projects that are abandoned before completion now account for almost half of all project pipelines.

Solar project developers ought to move away from a 'throwing spaghetti at the wall' approach, says Glint Solar's Simen Fure Jørgensen.