Europe

Germany PV developer S.A.G. Solarstrom has sold four PV systems to an unnamed German institutional investor. The systems, which were installed in Germany this year, have a total capacity of 15.1MWp.

SCHOTT Solar AG yesterday announced it has reached another milestone in manufacturing – the production of its one millionth solar receiver.

Italian PV installer Aion Renewables has announced that its subsidiary Ecoware filed for insolvency this week at the court of Padua, Italy.

Ukraine’s parliament has approved the second draft Green Energy Bill, paving the way for a 27% reduction in solar feed-in tariffs in the country from 2013.

The Romanian National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) has suggested the number of green certificates awarded to investments in PV and biomass should be cut.

Solar accounted for 1.3% of electricity demand in 2011 across the European territories covered by umbrella grid operator body ENTSO-E, figures published by the organisation reveal.

German development bank KfW has signed off a €100 million loan to Morocco’s solar energy agency MASEN to build a CSP plant in the south-central area of the country.

A two-year European Commission-funded project has been launched to investigate ways of integrating more PV electricity into the European grid.

CIGS solar panel company Nanosolar completed a 10.63MW solar project in Alfarrasi, Spain, the company’s largest installation to date.

UK-based PV project developer Lark Energy has announced it has secured planning permission for a 32MWp PV project which, when complete, is said to be the UK’s largest solar farm.