Operators laud move to make green energy core axis of €750 billion post-COVID roadmap known as Next Generation EU, but specifics on reported plans for EU-wide auctioning remain few.
French firm’s winning bid of €24.89/MWh is less than half the initial ceiling price and shows tenders’ ability to deliver public goods in ‘fantastically competitive and imaginative ways’, says EBRD.
New stats show Turkish solar has swiftly boomed to 6GW despite the national chaos after the 2016 coup attempt. Can the country continue to dodge volatility as it vies to become a 1GW-a-year PV market via a mix of large-scale and net-metering policies? José Rojo investigates
Berlin awards contracts of tech-neutral auction where only PV submitted bids, while Athens announces new 482.03MW PV exercise in July after price-smashing April tender.
Regulating rush for grid space and keeping speculative players away will determine success with steep renewable targets more than pandemic, Solar Media online panel hears.
Coalition deal on separate row over wind turbines removes last obstacle to the scrapping of subsidy freeze, which would have halted state money once installed PV reached 52GW.
Webinar speakers confident that the pandemic-driven tightening of PPA and merchant deal terms won’t dent the overall momentum of Europe’s solar market-of-the-moment.
There were a number of key factors at play in the first quarter of 2020 that either positively or negatively impacted financial results for five public listed PV inverter manufacturers in the quarter.
Poland, Spain and six other governments join industry calls for segment to become strategic axis of COVID-19 comeback, with new SolarPower Europe platform now launched to help the cause.
