Europe

North Macedonia's biggest solar park begins industrial ops
The biggest solar energy plant in North Macedonia-- a 17-MW facility in the district of Sveti Nikole-- commenced business operations this week.
Oct 12, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, North Macedonia, Solar Park
Flexible solar cells with record efficiency of 22.2%.
Empa scientists have, once again, enhanced the efficiency of CIGS flexible solar cells. Separately certified measurements disclosed a power conversion performance of 22.2% to transform light into electrical energy, a renovation from their previous record value of 21.4%.
Oct 12, 2022 // Technology, Italy, Europe, efficiency, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Flexible solar cells, Romain Carron
Swiss investor gets consent for Italian green hydrogen plant
Smartenergy intends to create the 200MWe Sardinian project in 3 phases
Oct 12, 2022 // Storage, Solar to Fuel, Italy, Europe, Smartenergy, green hydrogen plant
Gridserve completes UK solar, battery project
Warrington Council will certainly offtake energy from the 23MWp Cirencester scheme
Oct 12, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, UK, Europe, gridserve
Ashtrom eyes 476MW Greek solar possibility
Israeli developer will certainly develop the 5 projects valued at EUR335-380m with a neighborhood partner
Oct 11, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Greece, Europe, Ashtrom, Yitsik Marmelshtein
Greece relies on 100% renewables for the very first time ever
Greece's sustainable power plants have produced sufficient electrical energy to provide the nation's entire power demand over a straight five-hour duration on Friday, October 7, new information shows.
Oct 11, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Greece, Europe
Q-Energy acquires financing for Polish solar farm with Amazon PPA
Spanish renewables financial investment platform Q-Energy last week stated it has shut financing for a 113-MWp (87-MW AC) solar farm in Poland that will create electricity for United States technology group Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).
Oct 11, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, PPA, Poland, Amazon, Europe, Q-Energy, solar farm
Midsummer to scale up Swedish solar cell manufacturing amid skyrocketing demand
Swedish thin-film solar innovation firm Midsummer abdominal (STO: MIDS) will look for to expand its international manufacturing capabilities with an additional capacity of approximately 20 MW amid a more comprehensive plan that could scale up its producing to 200 MW.
Oct 11, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Sweden, Europe, Midsummer AB, Sven Lindstrom
Germany might install 1.5 GWp of solar on noise protection structures
Germany has the prospective to release 1,478 MWp of solar capacity on noise protection structures along railways as well as roads, reveals an evaluation by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV).
Oct 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe
Lightsource BP to begin developing Tiln solar farm
Building and construction is expected to take about 11 months
Oct 10, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Lightsource BP, Europe, Kareen Boutonnat, Tiln solar farm, Louise Kingham
London 'intending to lower land offered for solar'
Broadening the interpretation of property reserved for farming will reduce areas for new solar farms
Oct 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Chris Hewett, solar farm, Guardian, Doug Parr
Aer Soleir indicators PV arrangement with NRG+.
The alliance will certainly help the company realise approximately 500MW of solar projects.
Oct 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Italy, Europe, Aer Soleir, NRG+, Andy Kinsella, Marcus Horgan
Renewable Connections receives third solar authorization
The last week has actually seen the company get 90MW of accepted projects
Oct 10, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, UK, Europe, John Leith, Renewable Connections
Deutsche Post tests solar-powered ship for parcel shipping in Germany
Deutsche Post AG (ETR: DPW), operating as Deutsche Post DHL, is testing the transport of parcels on the Spree river in Berlin with a solar-powered ship as part of a pilot project which is the initial of its kind in Germany.
Oct 7, 2022 // Transport, Germany, Europe, Deutsche Post AG, solar-powered ship
Austria seeks to award 700 MW of solar, 190 MW of wind
Austria is readied to open up a tender with a target date of December 13, seeking to assign 700 MW of solar, 190 MW of wind as well as 7.5 MWel of biomass capacity.
Oct 7, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Austria