Solar Markets & Finance News

In this category, we are collecting all the top financial news from the solar market: selling prices and production costs, project sponsoring and investing, governmental subsidies and grants, tenders, sales and proposals – whatever is related to economics of solar power. Let's keep track of sustainable energy market events together.

NuGen Plows $150 Million Into Northeast Solar, Storage

NuGen pours $150M into Northeast distributed solar—community arrays and C&I rooftops—with storage-ready builds, standardized ops, and policy tailwinds to cut costs, boost savings, and scale resilient, subscriber-friendly returns.

Feb 3, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, USA, ENERGY STORAGE, investment, North America, Community Solar, Northeast

Terra Energy Raises $105 Million for Battery-Ready Rooftops

Terra Energy secures $105M to supercharge storage-paired rooftop solar—scaling sales, slashing soft costs, and bundling batteries as TOU rates and reforms spark evening self-consumption demand.

Feb 2, 2026 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, ENERGY STORAGE, Installers, North America

Italy Energy Community Sells 13.7 MWp Solar Portfolio

Italy’s energy community flips a 13.7‑MWp PV bundle—bifacial, battery‑ready, bankable—seeding social rooftops and agrivoltaics, while buyers lock diversified cash flows as revised rules turbocharge a maturing market.

Feb 2, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Italy, Europe, distributed solar, financing, project sale, energy community

Aspen Closes First New York Community-Solar Tranche

Aspen powers ahead in New York: closing first tranche on 18‑MW community-solar fleet, storage-ready and bankable—anchor tenants, residential subscribers, smart O&M, and grid-friendly benefits built in.

Jan 30, 2026 // Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, New York, North America, acquisitions, Community Solar, distributed generation

ABO Sells Trio of CfD French Solar, Reloads Capital

ABO Energy flips three CfD-backed French solar projects pre-build, locking value. Battery-ready, bankable designs meet inflation-linked revenues—fueling cheaper, longer debt and a hot secondary market for construction-ready solar.

Jan 29, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, France, Europe, recycling, Contracts For Difference, ABO Energy, solar portfolio sale

Record $2.3 Trillion, Transition Still Off Pace

Record $2.3T poured into the energy transition in 2025—Asia and Europe surge, data centers boom—but China’s pullback chills renewables as net-zero demands $5.2T yearly.

Jan 27, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, China, Europe, Asia

Rebate Rollback Spurs Solar Demand Whiplash, Longi Warns

China axing solar export-tax rebates April 1 could spark a pre-holiday rush then slump, squeezing margins amid pricey silver, as Longi trims silver use and tests storage for Europe/U.S.

Jan 27, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, LONGi

€250m Fuels Enery’s Europe Solar-Storage Buildout

Enery lands €250m to fast-track European solar-plus-storage, boosting grid flexibility with evening-shifted power, frequency services, and smarter, diversified revenue strategies.

Jan 26, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Battery Storage, Europe, utility solar, Enery, project finance

Soleos Signals 1-GW Zambia Solar Investment

Soleos eyes 1 GW in Zambia, launching grid-ready solar near mines and factories, PPA and private-wire deals, battery-ready builds, DFI-backed, scalable jobs engine.

Jan 23, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Africa, zambia, investment, utility solar, project pipeline, industrial load, Soleos

U.S. Cancels $30 Billion Biden-Era Energy Loans

Trump team scraps $30B Biden-era green loans, rewrites $53B, axes $9.5B for wind/solar; rebrands office to Energy Dominance Financing, steers cash to gas and nuclear.

Jan 23, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Trump, North America, biden

Munich Re De-risks ilos’s 222-MW Irish Solar Bet

Ilos secures Munich Re–backed financing for 222 MWp of Irish solar, blending bank debt with insurance shields to de-risk builds, trim lender margins, and accelerate grid-ready, PPA-savvy capacity.

Jan 20, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Ireland, Europe, MUNICH RE, utility solar, project finance, ilos energy

Masdar, ENGIE Clinch Financing 1.5GW Abu Dhabi Solar

Masdar–ENGIE seals financing for 1.5‑GW Al Ajban, delivering ultra-low-cost midday solar, battery-ready infrastructure, and thousands of jobs—setting Abu Dhabi’s stage for storage-paired mega-projects.

Jan 19, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Masdar, Engie, Asia, UAE, utility solar, project finance

Brookfield-Backed Clean Max Trims India IPO Target

Brookfield-backed Clean Max trims February IPO to $350-$400M amid India renewables slump; timing fluid as peers sink, transmission woes bite, and eight January listings raise just $160M.

Jan 19, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Clean Max

Longi Slumps as Another Year of Loss Looms

Longi slumps on fresh loss warning, but a 2026 price rebound beckons. Cost relief and a silver-to-base-metal shift hint at margin repair as China tames overcapacity; Tongwei also bleeds.

Jan 19, 2026 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, LONGi

Silver Surge Pummels Solar Makers, Copper Pivot Accelerates

Silver’s moonshot squeezes solar: panel prices tick up, margins vanish, giants pivot to copper and thriftier paste as sector silver use slides—yet demand still anchors the market.

Jan 16, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, Trina Solar, Jinko

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