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Government has a “significant” role in providing routes to market, according to speakers at Solar Media’s Renewable Energy Revenues Summit.

Avintia Energía plans to build an 850MW portfolio of greenfield solar projects with Italian oil giant Eni's subsidiary Plenitude in Spain.

GreenYellow has bought Grow Energy Management (GEM), acquiring its 120MW portfolio of PV projects in Portugal and Poland.

Carbon plans to launch the first part of its module production facility in autumn 2025, ahead of a ramp up to an annual cell capacity of 5GW.

The European Commission (EC) has published new recommendations to encourage the faster permitting and installation of new renewable projects.

Demand for solar modules has dipped in Europe since February, and both installation rates and prices have fallen, according to data from solar trading platform sun.store.

SMA Solar has published its financial results for the first quarter of the year, which include falling sales in the home and C&I sectors.

Renewables asset owner Brookfield Renewable has signed an energy framework agreement with tech giant Microsoft that would bring over 10.5GW of capacity.

Germany has granted approval to 2.2GW of ground-mounted solar projects in its latest round of auctions, up from 1.6GW in the previous round.

Leading Chinese module manufacturer JinkoSolar has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2024, which include over 21GW of shipments and total revenues of RMB23.04 billion (US$3.19 billion), a slight year-on-year (YoY) fall.