Europe

Utility-scale solar surges to yet one more record year
Solar energy plants scratched up another record year according to initial numbers released today by utility-scale specialists Wiki-Solar. New setups in 2020 comfortably topped 50 GWAC, well ahead of the 43 GW record attained the previous year. Global advancing set up capacity is now close to 280 GWAC.
Jan 26, 2021 // Market Research, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, South america, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, Australasia
Iberdrola safeguards EUR100m from EIB
Finance will money its innovation, r & d strategy until 2023
Jan 26, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, eib, Ignacio Galán
LONGi targets development in Poland through 300MW module supply offer
LONGi has secured a bargain to provide 300MW of its high-efficiency solar modules in the coming year to Polish distribution business Keno.
Jan 25, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Poland, Europe, LONGi, solar module, keno, Tadeusz Ogarek
Eelpower JV to increase UK battery storage space
Contract with SUSI to construct as well as run a pipeline of possessions
Jan 25, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Eelpower, Mark Simon
Impax offers 110MW Dutch solar website
German pension plan fund Versicherungskammer Group gets project for a concealed sum
Jan 25, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Netherlands, impax, Isabella Pfaller
Extremely reliable grid-scale power storage at 5th of cost
Researchers in WMG at the University of Warwick, in cooperation with Imperial College London, have located a means to boost crossbreed flow batteries as well as their commercial use. The brand-new strategy can save power in these batteries for long periods for concerning a 5th the rate of present innovations, with very little place restraints and also absolutely no discharges.
Jan 25, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, UK, Europe, University of Warwick, redox flow battery, Barun Chakrabarti
'Landmark minute' in Europe as sustainable electrical energy surpasses fossil fuels for first time
Despite making strong gains against coal and also gas, Europe's renewable resource growth needs to expand faster to reach the EU's climate targets, according to brand-new research study.
Jan 25, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, Spain, Germany, Europe, Netherlands, Ember, Dave Jones
A method to track the outside efficiency of perovskite solar minimodules
Recently, scientists have been creating a vast array of innovations created to convert renewable resource resources, such as sunshine as well as wind, right into electric power. This includes solar or solar (PV) cells, gadgets that can transform light into electrical power as well as are normally incorporated to develop photovoltaic panels.
Jan 23, 2021 // Technology, Spain, solar cells, South america, Europe, perovskite, Colombia, efficiency, Universidad de Antioquia, Jaume I University, Iván Mora-Seró
Making green hydrogen via the exposure of nanomaterials to sunlight
A research team from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) has actually joined forces with French researchers from the Institute of Chemistry and also Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES), a CNRS-University of Strasbourg joint research laboratory, to pave the way towards the production of green hydrogen.
Jan 22, 2021 // Technology, France, Europe, solar cell, green hydrogen, efficiency, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, INRS, Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health, ICPEES, El Khakani, CNRS-University of Strasbourg
Iberdrola and also Danone signed PPA for 590 MW solar park in Spain
Spanish utility Iberdrola SA and french food business Danone have signed a lasting Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), which will certainly drive the advancement of Europe's biggest photovoltaic or pv plant.
Jan 22, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, PPA, Iberdrola, Europe, Danone
UK installs 545MW solar in 2020
Around 60% of new ability came from ground-mounted PV systems, claims Solar Energy UK
Jan 21, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Chris Hewett
Bruc Energy to acquire 2GW solar energy portfolio from Forestalia
Bruc Energy has agreed to get a 2GW portfolio of solar photovoltaic or pv projects in Spain from renewables programmer Forestalia.
Jan 21, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, Forestalia, Bruc Energy
Floating solar pilot project near Canary Islands to face up to 10m-high waves
European Union financing has actually been protected for a floating solar pilot project in Spain to check out exactly how the technology does in testing sea problems.
Jan 21, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Spain, floating PV, Europe, canary islands, Ocean Sun, fred olsen renewables, offshore solar, Rolf Benjamin Johansen
Canadian Solar inks 1.4 GW UK PV pipe offer
Very first projects with Windel Capital are expected to reach ready-to-build phases in the second fifty percent of 2021
Jan 21, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Canadian Solar, UK, Europe, solar projects
Gresham House, Anesco tie-up on 200MW UK solar
UK portfolio makes up shovel-ready websites varying in size from 20MW to 50MW
Jan 21, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Anesco, Gresham House, Mark Futyan