solar parks

The plant will reach 51 megawatts. It will be combined with a wind farm, which has various advantages but also poses some challenges in terms of project planning.

RWE increases its Iberian solar capacity to 300 MW and commissioned a 92-megawatt (MW) ground-mounted photovoltaic plant in the province of Cádiz in Andalusia.

The 1-billion-dollar Oak Run Solar Project, approved by the Ohio Power Siting Board last week, will sit on over 6,000 acres in Madison County, west of Columbus, Ohio in the United States.

Global renewable energy developer and solutions provider BayWa r.e. has successfully completed three PV self-consumption projects for Merck and Tetra Pak.

Centrica has completed the acquisition of two clean energy projects in the southern United Kingdom, adding 32 megawatts of capacity to the company’s power portfolio.

A 128 MW solar park in Svedberga near Helsingborg in Southern Sweden may not be built. In a judgment, the Land and Environment Court of Appeal has endorsed the county administrative board's policy of prohibiting the construction of a solar park on the property.

Romania sees a growing number of large solar parks. In Giurgiu a 172 MW solar park is being developed, that is expected to get commissioned in 2024.

European Energy has started construction on a 56 MW solar farm in Australia, which is set to be the company’s first operating project in Australia.

Romania will become an energy transition hotspot in 2024. After CCE - Clean Capital Energy already started construction of the 42 MW solar power plant in Horia in the Arad region in 2023, the company has now obtained further building permits and grid commitments for 4 additional large projects.

Solar farms in the UK are getting bigger, research shows, as developers and investors look to maximise returns through economies of scale. Peter Curtain, Director of Allerton Communications, shares his insights.

BayWa r.e. has sold the Spanish solar park "Lirios" to the independent power producer (IPP) Encavis AG. The solar park is expected to go into operation in 2025. With an output of 109 MW, Lirios is one of BayWa r.e.'s largest projects in the country.

Developer IB Vogt announced the sale of Italy’s largest solar photovoltaic project to multinational utility Iberdrola. The 245 MW solar farm codenamed Fenix is located in Sicily, and scheduled to commence construction in March of 2024.

Nextracker was selected by ACWA Power and Larsen & Toubro to provide its all-terrain tracker NX Horizon-XTR for a 1.17 GW installation at Al Kahfah Solar Power Plant in Saudi Arabia.

A new nature agreement between the Danish Society for Nature Conservation and European Energy aims to ensure that new renewable energy projects positively contribute to Danish nature.

The construction of the ‘Kaba 2’ solar power plant in Eastern Hungary has started. Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a special role.

INTEC Energy Solutions, a solar EPC systems provider, has embarked on a service endeavor for a project in Jalmicco area (Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy). The project is run in cooperation with KELAG of Austria

R.Power has agreed to acquire a large portfolio of ground-mounted photovoltaic farms. See here for more details:

Juwi has brought the largest PV project in its company history online: a 223.6 MW solar park for the energy company Deriva (formerly Duke Energy) in Colorado/USA.

Operators of medium-sized and large photovoltaic systems in Italy used to have to pay a tax based on output. The Italian government has now suspended this.

Iqony Solar Energy Solutions (Sens) has started the development of a planned pipeline of up to 1 GW in Poland with a local partner. The first four PV projects have a combined output of 355 MW.

Photon Energy has completed and grid-connected its tenth photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the Romanian market. The installation has a generation capacity of 3.8 MW.

CEO Talk: In Germany, the expansion of PV is picking up speed. In this boom market with technically and economically good market access, the VSB Group is heavily involved with many new solar projects. How exactly we find out from CEO Dr Felix Grolman.

Solar developer IB Vogt has sold a 122 MW solar photovoltaic project in Brandenburg, Germany to Octopus Energy Generation. The development of the plant marks ib vogt’s return to the German market.

Solitek has joined forces with Reech AG, a Swiss engineering and planning company, for the two projects in the Alps of Switzerland. One on the wall above a road and the other in St. Moritz.

RWE is making good progress in expanding its Iberian solar business. The company has commissioned its 46-MW ground-mounted Morgavel solar farm in Portugal.