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BRUC has raised €474 million (US$554 million) to facilitate the addition of BESS to an 858MW Spanish solar portfolio.

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has launched a new renewables manufacturing subsidy programme.

Spanish IPP Grenergy has secured a senior non-recourse financing agreement worth €98.8 million for the172MW Ayora solar PV project in Spain.

Renewables developer ib vogt has sold the 95.18MW Baobab solar PV project in Segovia, central Spain, to a subsidiary of Swiss independent power producer (IPP) EOS NER.

A round-up of news coming from Europe, with IPP Encavis acquiring a 265MW solar PV portfolio in Italy, Iberdrola starting construction on 366MW of solar PV in its home country and IPP Sonnedix signing a renewables supply agreement with a subsidiary of Volkswagen in Spain.

Plentiude, the renewable energy development arm of Italian oil and gas major Eni, has started operations at a 150MW solar PV plant in Spain.

RES is to provide O&M services for 300MW of Matrix Renewables solar PV projects, while Axpo has completed a 200MW solar facility in León.

Zelestra has signed a PPA with technology giant Microsoft to sell power generated at a 95.7MW solar PV portfolio.

BNZ has started commercial operations at a portfolio of solar PV projects in Spain with a combined capacity of 150MW.

Spain has allocated up to €200 million (US$232 million) to fund “innovative” renewable energy and energy storage projects.