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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.

Solar Steel and Solarig have signed a deal that will see the former supply 62MW of trackers to the latter’s upcoming project in Seville.

The portfolio consists of five sites spread across three autonomous communities - Castilla y León, Andalusia and Castilla-la Mancha.

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

This project is a private-public collaboration between the utility, the Basque Energy Agency (EVE), the regional council of Alava and the cooperative Mondragon Group.

NextPower V ESG (NPV ESG), an international fund operated by NextEnergy Capital (NEC), has acquired a 248MW Spanish solar PV portfolio.

Graphic Packaging International (GPI) will acquire electricity from an 83MW solar portfolio operated by Zelestra.

The €50 million green loan will support the design, construction and operation of five solar PV projects in Castilla y Leon and Extremadura.

Acciona Energía has been awarded a 12-year contract for difference (CfD) to develop the 189MW Promina solar PV projec.

Solar PV accounted for 90% of all renewables that received an Administrative Construction Authorisation (AAC in Spanish).