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Sonnedix Secures €2 Billion for European Renewable Expansion
pipeline of nearly 7 GW across multiple countries, including Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the US, and the UK. How will
Jul 24, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Poland, Sonnedix, Europe
SMA Solar Suffers Loss Amid Weak Home And Business Demand
Germany’s SMA Solar Technology has reported a first-half net loss of €42.4 million, reversing a €44.1 million profit a year earlier as residential and commercial rooftop demand faltered and the company booked heavy inventory write-offs. Revenue fell nine percent to €684.9 million, with the Home & Business Solutions division plunging more than 48 percent year-on-year to €116 million.  Chief executive Jürgen Reinert blamed a “perfect storm” of soft German installation figures, aggressive price competition from Asian rivals and distributors saddled with excess stock that is clearing “painfully slowly.” The downturn forced SMA to recognise about €50 million in inventory impairments and purchase-contract provisions, plus €7.5 million in doubtful-receivables charges, pushing earnings before interest and tax to a negative €19 million. CFO Kaveh Rouhi said management is weighing further cost-optimisation steps if home-segment conditions deteriorate, but stressed that SMA’s utility-scale Large Scale & Project Solutions arm remains a bright spot, with sales rising to €568.8 million on robust orders from the Middle East and North America. Total order backlog stood at €1.16 billion on 30 June, down 14 percent year-on-year yet still covering roughly three-quarters of the firm’s revised 2025 revenue guidance. That guidance, trimmed in May and now reiterated, calls for full-year turnover of €1.5 billion–€1.55 billion and EBITDA of €70 million–€80 million. Reinert cautioned, however, that volatility around EU customs policy and the recently enacted U.S. OBBB tax act could weigh on second-half orders. SMA’s share price has halved since January amid broader inverter-sector malaise, but analysts note the company’s strong balance sheet—bolstered by last year’s €80 million EBITDA—and its early move into battery and hybrid inverters position it to rebound once household demand normalises. Management said the focus for the remainder of 2025 will be tightening working-capital loops, scaling its new 5-GW assembly line in Niestetal and accelerating product launches aimed at commercial self-consumption markets, where payback periods remain attractive despite falling feed-in tariffs.
Aug 7, 2025 // Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Inverters, Germany, Europe, inverter, SMA
ib vogt Starts 99-MWp Solar Park, Energising Southern Philippines Industry
regional vehicle with peso-denominated debt provided by BDO Unibank and Germany’s DEG. The lenders highlighted the project’s strong environmental
Aug 8, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, ib vogt, Philippines, PV Power Plant
OPES Solar Mobility opens Europe’s first vehicle solar panel factory
was chosen for its skilled labor pool and supplier access within Germany’s automotive and solar ecosystems. Co-locating R&D and production
Oct 24, 2025 // Manufacturing News, Germany, Europe, decarbonization, vehicle-integrated solar
Top Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Platforms
company that is based in Wildpoldsried in the district of Oberallgäu, Germany. The corporation was founded by Christoph Ostermann and Torsten Stiefenhofer
Jan 26, 2025
BayWa r.e. sells Spanish subsidy-free solar sequel to major European insurer
50MWp Don Rodrigo 2 solar plant in Spain’s Seville province to Talanx, Germany’s self-styled third largest insurance player. The installation near the
Jan 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, pv power plants, solar pv, Europe, subsidy-free pv, baywa r.e., Don Rodrigo, Benedikt Ortmann, talanx
Fraunhofer ISE evaluates vehicle-integrated PV in business vehicles
will certainly after that be evaluated by Alexander Bürkle in Freiburg, Germany. " We wish to create the modern technology, while likewise showing that
Apr 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Transport, Germany, Europe, solar modules, Christoph Kutter
Beam! You're on photoluminescence cam!
continue to be a warm prospect as a prospective PV product. Scientists in Germany made use of high accuracy photoluminescence to observe a perovskite solar
Apr 9, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Australia, solar cells, Asia, perovskite, Oceania
Mining firm plans 766MWp facility in Brazil, ReneSola offers Polish parks
as Poland, the company is targeting development in markets such as Hungary, Germany, France, Spain, the UK and also the
Dec 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Canada, Poland, South america, Europe, Brazil, North America, renesola, PV Power Plant, Josef Kastner, Solar Park, modus
Global renewables development impeded by existing auction policies-- study
the countries that have executed renewables public auctions in 2020 are Germany, France, India, Poland and also Portugal, with the latter receiving a record
Dec 23, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, tender, auction, feed-in tariff, policy, renewable auction, feed-in premium, energy watch group, world future council, global renewables congress, haleakala stiftung, Anna Leidreiter, Hans-Josef Fell
'Landmark minute' in Europe as sustainable electrical energy surpasses fossil fuels for first time
solar market grew by 11% throughout 2020, adding 18.7 GW of installments with Germany, The Netherlands. Spain, Poland and also France leading development. The
Jan 25, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, Spain, Germany, Europe, Netherlands, Ember, Dave Jones
BayWa r.e. to work on South Korea solar debut via new office
under the Don Rodrigo series in Spain and eyeing similar pipelines in Italy, Germany and
Sep 26, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, pv power plants, Asia, Korea, baywa r.e., apac, utlity-scale pv
Is solar eroding too much land? The EU thinks not
vocal in planned solar hubs such as the provinces of Viterbo and Brindisi. In Germany and France too, protests have been made against solar parks and in South
Oct 10, 2019 // Technology, Europe, Joint Research Center
Seeing both sides of light collection
Michele De Bastiani and Stefaan De Wolf, working with coworkers in Canada, Germany and Italy, currently show that a combination of both is the best strategy. By
Mar 17, 2021 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, KAUST, Stefaan De Wolf, Michele De Bastiani
Octopus Renewables to be gotten by vendor Octopus Energy
Additionally it has increased right into Silicon Valley in the US and also
Mar 26, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Octopus Energy, Greg Jackson, Octopus Renewables