Europe

Gas storage operator RAG Austria AG has put into operation a demonstration project in Upper Austria that stores green hydrogen in a natural gas underground reservoir.

London-based Downing Renewables as well as Infrastructure Trust Plc (LON: DORE) has bought a portfolio of 2 functional solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) assets with an incorporated capacity of 13 MWp in the UK.

Germany's Federal Network Agency has actually opened the second round of the rooftop solar tender, seeking to award 190.116 MW of capacity.

A worldwide research group that includes scientists from EPFL in Switzerland, Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey, Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia as well as The University of Tokyo has actually produced a quasi-2D perovskite solar cell with a unique type of salt to enhance hole extraction.

12-year supply agreement with Sidenor Aceros Especiales is guaranteed by the Spanish Export Credit Agency

The solar and also BESS projects are located in Greece, Italy, Spain, Romania and also the UK.

The government of Albania is dealing with a tender plan to award 300 MW of solar projects under a bigger procurement programme envisaging to promote the release of 1 GW of solar power capacity.

Polish solar products as well as modern technology provider Keno Group has set foot on the Romanian market with the opening of a regional branch in the Balkan nation, it revealed last week.

German wind and also solar park driver Encavis AG (ETR: CAP) unveiled the purchase of 2 ready-to-build solar park projects in west-central Italy with an integrated capacity of 93 MW.

Europe is expected to deploy at the very least 95 GW of grid-scale battery energy storage space systems by 2050, increasing the marketplace with more than EUR 70 billion (USD 76.8 bn) in fresh financial investments driven by efforts for the power market's decarbonisation, Aurora Energy Research claimed in its most recent report.

Germany connected 943.7 MW of new solar installations to the power grid in March as well as deployed 298.4 MW of new onshore wind capacity, according to data released by the Federal Network Agency.

50MW Dyce scheme has a grid connection date of September 2025

EBRD leads syndicate of IFC, Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Albania, Privredna Banka Zagreb in co-financing Karavasta solar plant in Albania First big utility-scale solar PV plant in the country Financial investment stems from EBRD Renewable Energy Auctions Programme

Project Fortress in Kent forecast to produce renewable power for 100,000 homes

Greek energy team Helleniq Energy (previous Hellenic Petroleum) is close to getting a 20-MW solar park in Cyprus in a bargain anticipated to be secured within the next few weeks, Insider Greece reports.