Europe

Octopus Energy signs solar PPA with UK store Iceland Foods
Britain's Octopus Energy on Friday said its generation arm has actually authorized a 10-year power acquisition agreement (PPA) with UK frozen food seller Iceland Foods.
Mar 6, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, UK, PPA, Europe, Octopus Energy, Iceland Foods
French Albioma strategies acquisitions on Brazil's DG solar market
French independent renewable energy producer Albioma SA (EPA: ABIO) claimed recently it is searching for new acquisitions to broaden its Brazilian distributed generation (DG) solar portfolio.
Mar 6, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, France, Europe, Albioma
Canadian Solar's 6 Spanish sites pass EIAs
Projects in Andalucían and Castilla y León regions have a total capacity of 685MW
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Canadian Solar, Spain, Europe
GRS begins deal with 122MW Spanish PV project
Carmonita Norte solar site in Badajoz is being established for Fotowatio Renewable Ventures
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, GRS
Spain's Enerside inks deal to co-create 2.6-GW solar biz in Italy
Spanish integrated solar PV platform Enerside Energy SA (BME: ENRS) stated on Friday it had struck an offer to establish a joint business that will hold a pipe of 2.6 GW of solar projects in Italy.
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Italy, Europe, enerside
Carbon names location for prepared gigawatt manufacturing facility
French business Carbon SAS has named the southerly French community of Fos-sur-mer in the Bouches-du-Rhône department as the site for its scheduled solar manufacturing facility.
Mar 6, 2023 // Manufacturing News, France, Europe, Carbon SAS
Germany's PV capacity addition at record level in January following roof boom
For the month of January, 56,620 photovoltaic systems with an overall capacity of 780.7 megawatts (MW) were freshly reported to the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), of which 760.4 MW were supported by the Renewable Energy Law (EEG) and 20.4 MW were unsubsidized systems.
Mar 6, 2023 // Rooftop PV, Germany, Europe
Scientists check out the role of surface area texturing in perovskite-silicon tandem cells
Nano-textured surface areas are an interesting strategy for maximizing the optical qualities for monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Researchers from Germany's Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have actually checked out the growth of different textures of silicon surface areas making use of different industrial additives as well as their efficiency in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) and also SHJ-- perovskite tandem solar cells.
Mar 6, 2023 // Technology, Germany, Europe, perovskite, silicon, HZB, solar sells, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
TotalEnergies acquires 200MW Gloss PV pipeline
The initial solar farms are anticipated to find on stream by 2025
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Poland, Europe, PV Power Plant, solar projects, TotalEnergies
French firm IEL plans 90 MW solar park in northern Serbia
IEL from western France bought a spatial preparation document for its 90 MW solar park project near Čoka in Serbia's far north, near the Romanian border.
Mar 3, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, France, Europe, Serbia, Solar Park
Enel donates solar panels to Ukraine
The 2MW batch is the initial commitment under a European effort
Mar 3, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Ukraine, Enel, Europe, solar panel
Germany adds 780 MW of solar, 86 MW of onshore wind in Jan
The development of solar energy in Germany proceeded at a strong pace at the start of 2023 with 780 MW of new systems linked to the grid but the recently set up onshore wind capacity went down sharply to 85.8 MW in January.
Mar 3, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe
Iceland to delight in Octopus PV power
The PPA covers power from the Breach PV project
Mar 3, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Octopus
Green Genius, Respect Energy sign 41-MW solar PPA in Poland
Lithuanian renewables programmer Green Genius said on Wednesday that it has signed two power acquisition agreements (PPA) to supply Polish energy trader Respect Energy with electrical energy from solar (PV) assets with a complete capacity of 41 MW.
Mar 2, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, PPA, Poland, Europe, Green Genius, Respect Energy
Sonnedix inks PPA with Endesa for 77 MW of Spanish solar
Worldwide independent solar energy producer (IPP) Sonnedix Power Holdings Ltd has actually signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to provide the output from 77 MW of solar farms in Spain.
Mar 2, 2023 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Spain, PPA, Sonnedix, Europe, Endesa