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EIB Backs 190MW Romanian Solar With €34 Million
EIB’s €34m turbocharges 190‑MW Romanian solar build, de-risking procurement and grid compliance as PPAs surge—battery-ready sites, tighter governance, faster paperwork-to-power, jobs and taxes ahead.
Feb 16, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Europe, eib, financing, Romania, solar portfolio, EU transition
German Court Voids Boitzenburger Land Solar Plan
Court axes plan for 180‑MW Boitzenburger Land solar park, exposing post‑build permitting risk and tougher biodiversity, alternatives and documentation scrutiny amid Germany’s solar push.
Feb 17, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Germany, Europe, permitting, solar parks, Brandenburg, courts
Clearway Powers Up $685 Million ERCOT Solar-Storage Hub
Clearway’s $685M Texas solar-plus-storage shifts sunshine to evening peaks, stacking ERCOT revenues with EMS-optimized batteries, co-location efficiencies, and sharp O&M—delivering cleaner power, grid services, and bankable resilience.
Feb 18, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Texas, solar plus storage, North America, clearway, ERCOT, ommissioning
Shell’s Savion Buys 2-GW Hanford Solar-Storage Project
Hecate sells up to 2‑GW Cereza solar-plus-storage at Washington’s Hanford Site to Shell’s Savion, which leads development; rare gigawatt project targets corporate offtake, grid services, and peak shifting.
Feb 19, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Washington, North America, hecate, Savion
Australia Greenlights Wooderson’s 8-Hour Grid Battery
EPBC greenlight propels AUD 1.9b Wooderson: 980,000-panel solar plus 450‑MW/3,600‑MWh battery to power 235,000 homes and deliver dispatchable capacity to Queensland by 2031.
Feb 20, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Australia, queensland, Oceania, res, EnergyEstate
RheinEnergie Taps Cologne Rooftops for 18-MW Infineum Solar
RheinEnergie’s 18‑MW rooftop‑and‑brownfield solar at Infineum Cologne builds one of Germany’s largest inner‑city industrial PV—slashing grid losses, stabilizing costs, and boosting behind‑the‑meter, grid‑smart decarbonization.
Feb 23, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, Germany, Europe, RheinEnergie, Infineum, Cologne
OCI, Arava Seal 347-MW Texas Solar Financing
OCI Energy and Arava Power secure financing for a 347‑MW ERCOT solar build, turning permits into power with bankable EPC, secured supply, and PPA/hedge-ready, battery-ready execution.
Feb 24, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, ERCOT, project finance, OCI Energy, Arava Power
Scatec Reaches Close, Starts 130-MW Colombia Solar
Scatec reaches financial close for 130‑MW Barzalosa solar in Colombia, securing a 15‑year PPA (85% contracted) with BTG Pactual’s unit while balancing merchant upside and scaling LatAm.
Feb 25, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Scatec, PPA, South america, Colombia, construction
Fashion Brand Locks 8-MW Italian Solar via PPA
Fashion meets solar: Corporate PPA secures most output from Recurrent Energy’s 8‑MW Italy farm, hedging prices, slashing Scope 2, battery-ready design, de-risked revenues—and dependable green power for local operations.
Feb 26, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, C&I, Italy, Europe, corporate ppa, recurrent energy, decarbonisation
Monsson Wins DRI Deal to Operate Romania Renewables
Monsson clinches five-year O&M and dispatch deal for DRI’s Romanian wind-solar fleet, covering nearly 300 MW and substations, as it scales past 2 GW amid Romania’s rising availability stakes.
Feb 27, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, O&M, Europe, Romania, Monsson, DRI, dispatching
Hyundai Plans KRW9 Trillion Hydrogen-AI Supercampus
Hyundai pours KRW 9T into Saemangeum: 200‑MW hydrogen hub, gigawatt solar, AI data center and robotics rolled out by 2027–2029, powering trams, buses—backed by KDB talks.
Mar 2, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Hyundai, South Korea, Asia, hydrogen, data centres
Sabanci Taps Empact for IRA Solar Compliance
Sabanci taps Empact to master IRA compliance—turning documentation into deal fuel. Clean, audit-ready files speed transfers, cut risk, and sharpen U.S. solar’s cost of capital.
Mar 3, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, tax credits, IRA, Sabanci, compliance
EU Pilots Cross-Border Solar With €54.9m Auction
EU pilots €54.9m cross-border solar auction linking Bulgaria and Finland, pooling sunshine and savings to hit targets—template for bigger, shared-capacity rollouts across Europe.
Mar 4, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, tender, Europe, European Union, Finland, Bulgaria
Statkraft Seals Subsidy-Light German Solar Deal With WSW
Statkraft inks 2026–28 PPA: 18.2 GWh/year Bavarian solar to WSW for Wuppertal industry—Bayer included—market-based, subsidy-free, de-risked assets signal Germany’s maturing merchant solar and utility-led aggregation.
Mar 5, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Germany, PPA, Europe, Statkraft, industrial power
Tunisia Tenders First 300MW Solar-Storage Project
Tunisia launches its first solar-plus-storage: 300 MW PV with 150 MW/540 MWh batteries in Bazma, Kebili. Registration by May 8; bids due Oct 14, 2026—pivot to 50% renewables.
Mar 9, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Tunisia, Africa, PV Power Plant
