Europe

230MW development includes a modification of the grid connection agreement and a planning application

German energy service provider Erdgas Suedwest GmbH and municipal utility Stadtwerke Baden-Baden are planning to construct a 6-MWp floating photovoltaic (PV) plant in Baden-Wuerttemberg to supply green electricity to a crushed rock plant as well as a concrete manufacturing site in the area.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (AMS: RDSA) will certainly deploy the software monitoring technology of UK-based Inaccess at a 100-MW hybrid wind-solar complex in the Netherlands.

A group of researchers from the UK and Japan has actually located that the tiny issues which limit the efficiency of perovskites-- more affordable alternative materials for solar cells-- are also in charge of architectural modifications in the material that result in degradation.

French renewable resource firm Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) has actually set up a new subsidiary that will focus on the development of solar installations in the Rhône valley area of France.

Spanish crowdfunding platform Fundeen on Monday launched a possibility for citizens in Spain to invest in a 400-MW solar PV project that Austrian renewables developer RP Global is working on approximately Murcia.

Flughafen Wien AG (VIE: FLU), the operator of the Vienna Airport, has taken into procedure a 24-MWp solar park to power the Austrian capital's airport and also the companies situated there.

London-listed solar and storage financier Bluefield Solar Income Fund has actually acquired 2 40MW battery energy storage system (BESS) projects for ₤ 4.5 million (US$ 5.7 million).

Germany's Bundesrat, which represents the 16 federal states, has actually approved the removal of the 15% area limit for floating photovoltaic or pv (PV) plants on artificial lakes prepared in a draft law.

Two 40MW projects acquired from Green Hedge Energy for ₤ 4.5 m.

The European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC) has actually launched an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) for PV aimed at mobilising EU member states' support for breakthrough solar manufacturing technologies and also aiding their commercialisation.

French renewable power producer and also programmer Akuo Energy has commissioned a 29.2 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Tonga, several weeks after powering up a 19MWh project in Martinique

Chosen from among 130 renewable resource projects, the 80 new projects were awarded completing 1 GW capacity.

The Romanian arm of French multinational utility firm Engie claimed that it has actually authorized a contract with the neighborhood branch of French building materials group Saint-Gobain to construct a 8.6 MWp photovoltaic park at its factory in Calarasi, southerly Romania.

UK-based greentech start-up Solivus has finished the installation of greater than 600 ultra-thin-layer photovoltaic panels on the roofing system of Premiership rugby club Northampton Saints' stadium.