Germany

Statkraft has been awarded a contract to build a 47 MW solar power plant and 16 MW battery storage facility in Zerbst, Germany. This project, expected to commence in summer 2025, will provide energy to power around 14,000 households. Part of Statkraft's ambitious growth targets, the firm also secured a 500 MW offshore wind project in Ireland.

BayWa r.e. and Goodman Group have agreed to build 18 MWp of rooftop solar capacity at Marl Logistics Centre, Germany's largest single-roof solar system. 43,000 modules will be installed by end of 2023. This project is part of Goodman's target to reach 400 MWp of PV installed globally by 2025. 24 projects and 60 MWp installed this year.

Iberdrola SA, a Spanish utility company, has secured financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the construction of solar and wind power plants in Spain, Portugal, and Germany, totaling 2.2 GW capacity.

German renewable energy developer ABO Wind AG and battery storage expert Tricera Energy GmbH have joined forces to install three battery storage systems in Germany, with an aggregate capacity exceeding 25 MWh.

Trianel Energieprojekte GmbH & Co. KG (TEP), a developer of renewable energy projects, has kicked off the installation of 60 MWp of solar power in Germany, spanning four initiatives. Each of these projects will incorporate a battery storage facility.

German engineering, procurement and also building and construction (EPC) service firm Intec Energy Solutions has won two separate contracts to develop solar power projects in Germany and Italy with a consolidated targeted capacity of 22 MWp.

German municipal utility SachsenEnergie and neighborhood steelmaker Feralpi Stahl are preparing to jointly construct a 150-MW solar park in the federal state of Saxony to secure a lasting power supply for the business in the region.

Programmer can currently start building the Heiligenfelde solar park

Germany should introduce a separate auction for agrivoltaic solar projects to take advantage of the dual use agricultural land and also reach the targeted installed solar capacity of 215 GW by 2030, according to energy and also water industry association BDEW.

Polish solar installer Quanta Energy SA, part of the R.Power Group, expects to accomplish a yearly growth rate of 100 MWp for its portfolio in Germany within a couple of years.

United States solar software carrier Aurora Solar has actually opened an office in Frankfurt, setting foot in Germany, Switzerland and Austria to benefit from the growing number of local solar installers who need digital solutions and also automation.

EUR140m RWE system covers two sites in Rhine-Westphalia

German monocrystalline wafers manufacturer NexWafe GmbH has actually raised EUR 30 million (USD 32.2 m) to quicken the building of a commercial-scale center for green solar wafers in Bitterfeld, Germany.

Germany's Federal Network Agency has initiated the 2nd round of the ground-mounted solar tender, targeting projects with an incorporated capacity of 1.61 GW.

Germany's Thyssenkrupp Nucera AG & Co KGaA has been selected to provide electrolysers for a 2.2-GW hydrogen-to-ammonia manufacturing project in northwest Saudi Arabia, which got to economic closing last week.