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BNZ has secured a €166 million (US$185.4 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for 700MW of new solar capacity in Europe.

Niam Infrastructure and Evecon have announced plans to build a new solar-plus-storage portfolio in Latvia.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo looks at Southern Europe, where pricing, grid capacity and the ban of PV on farmland are causing headaches.

George Heynes charts the key market developments in the EU countries of Northern Europe, as well as non-EU members, Norway and the UK.

Solar and wind power accounted for 30% of the EU’s electricity generation in H1 2024, exceeding the contribution of fossil fuels.

Policies in the EU and US to impose a carbon price on imported materials and goods will inevitably hit solar manufacturers.

The European Parliament has voted to accelerate the adoption of renewable power generation on the continent.

SolarPower Europe has warned of the “deeply precarious” impacts of collapsing costs in the global solar sector.

TeraPlast has received €1.1 million from the EU via the national government to build a 4.56MWp PV plant in northern Romania.

Goldbeck Solar and the CEE Group have started operations at their 154.7MW Döllen solar park in the German state of Brandenburg.