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An expansive new partnership for Segen and BNP.

BNP-Segen deal brings instant finance to solar and battery buyers

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Installers in the UK and Germany can look forward to new financing options for solar and storage through a collaboration between distributor Segen and BNP Paribas, with a view to a wider European rollout

The Solar Investors Guide is published at regular intervals.

Solar Investors Guide – ELTIF 2.0 and PPAs open doors for investment

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The updated European Long Term Investment Fund regulation broadens access to solar projects for institutional and private investors, while PPAs now offer returns independent of public subsidies.

In October 2024, EDP tested Comau's new assembly robot in a solar park for the first time.

EDP: more than 15 gigawatts under contract in PPAs worldwide

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Global energy major EDP generates over 41 terawatt hours of renewable energy each year. Around a fifth of supply contracts serve data centres – a sector with a steadily growing appetite for electricity.

Former EU Industry Commissioner, Thierry Breton, introducing the draft Net-Zero Industry Act in March 2023.

EU moves to support European solar manufacturing 

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The European Commission has adopted the NZIA Secondary Legislation, outlining how Member States should factor in sustainability and resilience in renewable energy auctions.

It‘s no game: a great deal of solar power is needed to produce green hydrogen – an important driver for the PPA market.

Future PPA market driven by tech and green hydrogen

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Market players and policy-makers agree: To ensure a robust expansion of renewables, there must be more private-sector market mechanisms. The goal: fewer tenders and feed-in tariffs, and more direct power purchase agreements between electricity suppliers and consumers.

Solar park Loutsa in Central Greece.

Greece: PPA between EDF Renewables and Axpo

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The two companies have signed a short-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for the electricity from two EDF solar power plants in the Viotia region.

The appetite for solar power will grow significantly in the future.

PPAs: Returns no longer tied to public subsidies

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In order to ensure the robust expansion of solar energy in the future, more private market mechanisms must and will be created. Power Purchase Agreements play a decisive role in this. Find out more in next week's focus.

Pleased with developments: Prins Doornekamp, founder and CEO of Nowos.

Nowos receives €6 million to expand battery repair

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The Dutch company needs the growth capital to advance the repair and reuse of lithium-ion batteries in Europe. A new site is set to open in Poland this year.

181 MW Santas solar park of Akuo in Portugal.

Ardian enters agreement to acquire Akuo

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France-based private equity firm Ardian has reached an agreement to acquire Akuo, an independent power producer specialising in renewable energy.

Italy is a pioneer in Agri-PV, says Carsten Bovenschen, CEO of Juwi.

Agri-PV: “Dual use with animal husbandry has great potential”

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Agrivoltaics combines solar power and agriculture, offering genuinely niche opportunities. Nevertheless, it won't replace traditional solar parks, says Carsten Bovenschen, CEO of Juwi.

Solarparks on the site of the former Amynteo opencast lignite mine in Northern Greece.

Greece – 567 MW new solar projects from RWE and PPC

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The energy groups helping drive Greece’s energy transition through the joint venture Meton Energy S.A. are now at the final investment decision stage for two large-scale PV projects in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece.

The solar PV plant of DH2 Energy in Aragón combined with an electroylser will provide green hydrogen .
Spain

First renewable hydrogen auction on the Iberian market started

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The Gas market operator MIBGAS has opened the auction process for the purchase of renewable hydrogen from DH2 Energy`s solar Hysencia plant in Aragón, which has an electrolysis capacity of 35 MW. Operations are anticipated to commence in the first half of 2027.

The solar rooftop installation at Goldbeck Solar headquarters in Polch/Germany.

Goldbeck Solar staff invest in company’s own solar roof

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The solar energy company is offering employees a chance to invest in its new rooftop PV system in Polch, Germany – supporting the energy transition while generating financial benefits for the team.

Lidsø solar park in Denmark.

Denmark: European Energy divests Lidsø solar park to Alight

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Lidsø solar park in Denmark is changing ownership following European Energy’s successful divestment of the project to Alight. Long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) are secured.

Kristian Ruby, Secretary General of Eurelectric – Union of the Electricity Industry.

Eurelectric calls for EU electrification bank in clean industrial deal

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Industrial electrification in Europe is struggling under high upfront costs, long investment cycles, rising energy prices, unfair taxation, and fossil fuel subsidies that still exceed €55 billion a year. Eurelectric is calling for an Electrification Bank as part of the EU Clean Industrial Deal.

 Christian Bjerrum Jorgensen, Danish Embassy Counsellor for Energy in Berlin.
Heat transition

Denmark: More PV for district heating

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Denmark is showing how the heating transition can work. District heating plays a central role in this, as Christian Bjerrum Jorgensen, Embassy Counsellor for Energy, explains in an interview. Photovoltaics are now to be increasingly integrated.

The Llanwern 75 MW solar park from NextPower UK, the UK's largest operating solar asset.

NextPower UK ESG: £733 million fundraising exceeds expectations

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NextEnergy Capital announces that NextPower UK ESG – the largest private fund focused specifically on new-build UK solar topped its original target of £500 million by nearly 50%.

The Noordoostpolder solar facility in Flevoland/Netherlands is next to a wind park.

Netherlands: Ampyr and Rockwool conclude solar PPA

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The two partners signed a 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply over 50 GWh of solar energy annually from the new 96 MW Noordoostpolder solar park in Flevoland, starting in 2026.

Signing the contracts for the Ukraine investment. In the foreground Arvid Tuerkner, Managing Director at EBRD Ukraine and Moldova and Joachim Goldbeck, CEO Goldbeck Solar.

Goldbeck Solar launches joint venture for Ukraine

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Goldbeck Solar Investment and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed an agreement to establish a new joint venture. The business is aimed at strengthening Ukraine's energy resilience and independence.

Solar parks and large-scale battery storage is on the rise in Bulgaria.

Bulgaria: EBRD lends €50 million to build and operate a 237 MW solar PV plant

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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending up to €50 million to Tenevo Solar Technologies EAD to build and operate a fully merchant solar photo-voltaic plant in southeastern Bulgaria. A parallel financing facility of €53 million will be provided by Raiffeisen Bank International, making the total finance package €103 million.

Large solar projects can be financed with money from private investors.

Next investor newsletter: Funding solar projects with ELTIF and PPA

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Our next newsletter for investors will be published on February 12, 2025. It deals with the European Long Term Investment Fund (ELTIF). Its reform offers institutional and private investors significantly better investments in solar projects. Sign up for the newsletter to receive the latest B2B information on your desk!

Animation of the planned floating solar power plant in Northeast France.
France 

Q Energy: Financing for 74.3 MW floating solar plant secured

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Q ENERGY announced the debt financial close of its “Les Ilots Blandin” project for a total amount of EUR 50.4m, arranged by Crédit Agricole Transitions & Energies, through its financing arm Unifergie, and Bpifrance.

More and more solar parks in UK (and elsewhere) are co-located with battery energy storage systems (BESS), which offers several advantages.

UK: Axpo signs PPA for co-located PV project

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Axpo has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with British Solar Renewables (BSR) to buy clean energy from its 25 MW solar PV at Whaddon Farm, Wiltshire. The site is co-located with a utility-scale 16MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

With or without wind power: the Cebele solar park in Portugal will be a truly large-scale project.

Lightsource BP sells solar park in Portugal to Exus Renewables

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Capcora, an investment consultant specializing in renewable energies, supported the sale of the project. The huge solar park in the southwest of the country will start operating in 2026. Expansion to include additional technologies is possible.

Solar park of CCE in Montalto di Castro, north of Rom.

Italy: CCE concluded € 24 mio. transaction with Commerzbank for a 42 MW solar park

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CCE Holding finalized a EUR 24 million project financing with Commerzbank AG. The loan amount will be used for the construction of a 42.08 MW photovoltaic plant in the municipality of Montalto di Castro in the Italian region of Lazio near Rome.