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Alight recently expanded to Finland as the company's management believes both Sweden and Finland offers massive yet untapped potential when it comes to developing solar projects.

Swedish solar company Alight has expanded to the Finnish market by constructing a new solar PV project with a capacity of more than 100MW.

As PV projects become more and more common in the Nordics, wind players like OX2 are entering the solar market with large-scale projects.

Finnish energy company Ilmatar has plans to develop a 350MWp solar PV project in Grums, central Sweden and two other projects in Finland.

Finnish utility Fortum has begun development on an 80MW solar PV plant in Finland’s Virolahti municipality in the Southeast of the country bordering Russia. It will be Fortum’s first solar PV project in its home country.

The European Commission plans ultimately to run an ‘expression of interest’ call for EU countries every year, which will result in a call for a cross-border tender if there is enough interest from member states and the proposals and desires of the participating countries line up.

The EU has announced a request for proposals (RFP) for a 400MW solar PV tender for projects in Finland, with financing for the tender voluntarily provided by Luxembourg. It is the first cross-border renewable energy tender ever proposed in Europe.

Solar developer OX2 has acquired the project rights to a 475MW solar PV project in Finland from Finnish PV developer SAJM Holding Oy.

The European Union (EU) generated a record 12% of its electricity from solar between May and August 2022, a report from think tank Ember has revealed.

Danish developer Better Energy has partnered with Finish solar company Forus to develop more than 1GW of solar PV in Finland.