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The Danish Green Investment Bank has provided €16 million of funding for two projects in Denmark with a combined capacity of 32MW.

The CEO of Orsted, the world’s largest offshore wind developer, has said that his company is working to establish “a scalable commercial model” for solar PV and energy storage, viewing both as potential drivers of long-term growth.

NRGi and Better Energy have collaborated on a new PV project in Denmark that spans the area of 112 football pitches — with the installation standing as Denmark’s third largest PV park.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has issued a US$500 million global green bond that will be used to support the company’s Green Project Portfolio.

German bank HSH Nordbank announced this week that it is providing Danish developer MC Finans with a long-term loan of approximately US$24.6 million for the financing of the Vandel 2 solar park in the municipality of Vandel / Billund in southern Jutland.

The first cross-border PV tender in Europe stood as a success, as five companies based in Denmark secured 50MW worth of solar capacity in the German bidding process.

Inverter specialist SMA is taking over technical operations of the largest solar PV plant in Denmark from German-based PV developer Wircon.

A key theme of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue conference last week was how Germany’s Energiewende (‘energy transition’) has not only proven how to foster an explosion of renewable generation capacity through support schemes, but also how to integrate those renewables. Grid operators from Germany and Denmark discussed questions of feasibility, past, present and future.