Supported by the EBRD, Romania has this week launched a Contract for Difference (CfD) mechanism for the construction of renewable energy installations and opened the first auction for 1.5 GW of renewable energy generation capacities – 500 MW of solar PV and 1 GW of onshore wind.
The Republic of Moldova is taking major steps to encourage investment in renewable energies, expand international partnerships and achieve climate targets. Photovoltaics play an important role in this. The first tenders were recently launched.
R.Power Group, plans to significantly increase its market share in Italy. In the past month alone, the company signed agreements with landowners for PV farms of more than 100 MW. Goal is to have over 1 GW developed projects within a year.
As a result of the latest auctions organised by GSE (Gestore Servizi Energetici) for investments below and above 1 MWp, the R.Power Group has secured the rights to sell energy from investment portfolios with a total capacity of 21 megawatts.
RWE is growing its renewables portfolio in Poland: at the end of December the company received Contract for Difference (CfD) awards from the Polish Energy Regulatory Office for solar projects with a total capacity of more than 20 megawatts (MW).
BNP Paribas Bank Polska and Santander Bank Polska signed the agreement for PLN 242 million (EUR 53 million) on the financing of R.Power solar power plants’ portfolio
RWE received a Contract for Difference for the 48-megawatt onshore wind farm Znin and was awarded solar projects with a total capacity of 29 megawatts.
Ferenc Kis from RSK Group and Kinga Máté from Solar PV Hungary are analysing the results from the latest Hungarian renewable energy auctions from February 2021. 210 MW new capacity were awarded, out of which 185 MW capacity went for ‘zero-bids’ and their 6 projects require no state subsidy.
RP Global is investing massively in the development solar PV and wind power in Poland. The first projects include five PV parks that total 180 MW.
R.Power has acquired PLN 530 million (app. EUR 116 million) to finance solar farms in Poland.
ABO Wind has secured tariffs for all six submitted projects in the first innovation tender for renewable energies of the German Federal Network Agency.
Croatia’s adopts its auctions to drive renewable growth in the power mix, with solar PV to represent 50% of tendered capacity, GlobalData reports.
The first Renewable Energy Support Scheme (RESS-1) round of Ireland’s first green energy auction provided a stage for the rapid deployment of onshore wind and solar projects.
