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 has been awarded a large-scale PV farm project in Spain with a capacity of 65 MW with an expected particularly high yield. The energy will be sold via a PPA.
The “PV2Float” project by RWE, Fraunhofer ISE and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg is testing three floating PV systems (30 kW each) over three years. The research focuses on technical improvements, environmental impact and public acceptance. It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
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With a nominal output of 40 MW, the Romanian CCE solar power plant Horia 1 was officially opened. It was funded by the EU. More PV projects of CEE in Romania are coming.
Montenegro has a high solar potential and is taking promising steps to use more solar PV, as Ivana Vojinović, director of the Center for Climate Change, Natural Resources and Energy at the University of Donja Gorica, explains. But challenges remain.
Ampyr Solar Europe, a leading pan-European solar developer and independent power producer, has achieved financial close for its latest solar PV project in the Netherlands.
Energy farm Witznitz: With an output of 650 megawatts, the solar park south of Leipzig, Germany, represents a milestone for the project business. Register and download our special edition for free! Subscribers of our investors newsletter get it delivered directly to their desk.
Opera Solar announces partnership with Sharp Energy Solutions Europe. This cooperation aims to transform the energy supply, starting with two projects in Hungary and Slovakia.
The project developer is currently building three solar parks in Colorado. All three plants will be used to supply energy to members of the Tri-State electricity cooperative.
The PV market in Central and Eastern Europe continues to develop dynamically. Challenges are - as elsewhere - grid expansion, energy storage, load management and bureaucracy reduction. This was demonstrated at the CISOLAR & GREENBATTERY 2024 conference and expo in Bucharest.
Israel headquartered Econergy Renewable Energy, announced the successful commercial operation of its first solar projects in Italy. The company now owns and manages six solar parks in Italy with a total capacity of about 20 MW.
Danish State Railways (DSB) has signed an agreement with the European Energy that ensures the construction of a new solar park in Eastern Denmark. DSB will purchase part of the produced electricity.
Faerch, a leading Finish supplier of circular food packaging with integrated recycling capability, has signed its second 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Better Energy.This contributes to realize a new solar park.
Renewable energy developer Limes has surpassed 250 MW of fully consented solar parks in Italy, in total 264 MW with the approval of the latest ones. Additionally the company has a large piple of Agri-PV projects.
A new nature agreement between the Danish Society for Nature Conservation and European Energy aims to ensure that new renewable energy projects positively contribute to Danish nature.
A new policy paper of SolarPowerEurope and The Nature Conservancy shows that nature-inclusive solar parks can help not only mitigating the impacts of climate change, but also help go the extra mile to restore nature. A new, cross-sectorial EU policy framework is needed.
Highfield Solar has secured project financing to fund the construction and operation of two additional PV projects with a total capacity of 132 MW. Since July 2021, Highfield Solar has secured over €400 million in cumulative debt funding for more than 600 MW of solar projects in Ireland.
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.
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Q ENERGY started construction of a 52 MW solar farm in the Spanish region of Extremadura. Extensive measures to protect nature and the environment are integrated into the project.
Actis-backed Rezolv Energy has selected three companies – CMC Europe, Solarpro and Green Solar Energy – to build the 229 MW ‘St. George’ solar park in Silistra Municipality in Northeastern Bulgaria.
Joachim Goldbeck, the founder and CEO of the Goldbeck Solar Group, analyzes the prospects for the project business. He assesses potential markets and explains in an interview why he already has upcoming investments in Ukraine on his radar.
In 2023, 4.6 GW of photovoltaic power were newly installed in Poland. This puts the country in fourth place in Europe after Germany, Spain and Italy. Tobias Schuessler is Managing Director of Goldbeck Solar Polska. He analyses the prospects and the challenges.
Belectric is commissioning eight solar parks in the Netherlands with a total capacity of 128 MW. A particular focus was on soil protection.
