agriPV

Danish IPP European Energy has started constructing a 225.5MW agrivoltaic solar PV project in Sicily, which it claims will be the “largest” such project in Italy.

New York state has granted final siting permits to the AES Corporation’s 125MW Sugar Maple solar-plus-storage project.

Italian renewables platform Whysol Renewables has secured financing towards four agrivoltaics plants and two battery energy storage systems (BESS) in southern Italy.

Spanish utility Endesa has started commercial operations at a 131MW solar PV portfolio in its home country.

Portuguese PV cleaning specialist Chemitek Solar has launched a new solution for drone-based cleaning of agrivoltaic systems.

Yield Energy has launched Yield Edge, a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) for grid-ready flexibility from farms.

Swedish independent power producer (IPP) Alight Energy has commissioned a 215MW agrivoltaics project in Denmark.

PowerField has completed construction of seven solar PV projects in the Netherlands with a combined capacity of 170MW.

Utility giant Engie has signed a 15-year renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) with tech giant Apple in Italy.

Spain has amended its national common agricultural policy (PAC) framework to include agrivoltaic (agriPV) systems to be eligible for subsidies.