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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.

In the last two weeks, new solar projects, or deals involving existing facilities, have been struck in Sweden, Senegal and Uruguay.

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.

Alight plans to build a 64MW solar farm in Sweden, which will be the solar facility with the country's largest capacity upon its completion.

Industrial group Soltech has signed an agreement with Norwegian PV developer Solgrid to construct a 300MW solar portfolio in Sweden.

The Ports of Stockholm will build six new rooftop solar cells at its facilities in the city, adding 550MWh of power generation to the ports.

Solar developers GreenGo and Hydro Rein have inked a partnership agreement to develop utility-scale PV projects in Sweden, with the first two projects signed for this week.

Danish solar energy company Nordic Solar has added two solar parks with a capacity of 83MWp in Sweden to its portfolio. 

Finnish renewables developer Taaleri Energia – the renewables arm of Taaleri Group – and Nordics-focused developer Landinfra Energy have entered a partnership to develop 1.9GW of hybrid solar, energy storage and wind projects in Sweden.