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Intelligent electrification, combining solar, battery storage and AI, sits at the heart of this vision for industrial flexibility.

Industrial flexibility: a €300 billion opportunity for Europe

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A new whitepaper finds industrial flexibility could cut EU renewables curtailment by 61 percent and avoid 60 GW of peak capacity, while opening new revenue streams for energy-intensive sectors.

Jan Himken (right) is partner manager at Bees & Bears

Bees & Bears: third-party financing and the installer opportunity

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CEO Talk: instalment purchasing made easy. With solid partners behind them, installers can offer customers loans for their solar setup alongside the build itself. What does this mean for installers? More work or more orders? Watch to find out.

Two years of European PPA prices, rebased to Q3 2024: wind at 0.99, blended at 0.92, solar at 0.86 and hybrid at 0.94

Rising gas prices push PPA buyers towards operational assets

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Why wait for a new build? Almost 40 percent of standalone PPA offers in Europe, and close to 60 percent for wind, now come from projects that are already generating.

From a previous delivery: hospital staff carry in the equipment themselves

Another Biohaus solar shipment heads to Ukrainian hospitals

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A Biohaus Foundation truck packed with solar modules and batteries is due to leave Paderborn for five sites across Ukraine. Among them are hospitals in Kyiv, Sumy and Trostianets, which will need power they can rely on as winter approaches.

Banana leaves under semi-transparent modules: one stop on the forum’s site visit

Agrivoltaics Industry Forum 2026: big gains call for clear rules

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Brussels policymakers and fruit growers who met near Bordeaux this year saw a sector ready to grow, provided regulation keeps agriculture firmly at the centre of every project.

UK solar at scale: the Llanwern project in South Wales, as GBE moves to tie public funding to tighter supply chain standards

UK – Great British Energy ties community funding to SSI membership

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Local clean energy projects backed by Great British Energy, the UK’s publicly owned clean energy company, will now have to source solar components from Solar Stewardship Initiative members or suppliers with equivalent ESG assurance.

Solar panels now share the view in Plitvice Lakes National Park

Croatia's national parks get an €18 million energy upgrade

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Eight national parks and thirteen nature parks can now apply for a share of €18 million to fund solar-plus-storage, heating and cooling upgrades, EV infrastructure and grid improvements, starting 1 October.

Our guest author Harry Wolkenfelt, CEO and founder of Solarif Group

Harry Wolkenfelt: Insurability is built, not bought

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Solar and battery storage projects are only as insurable and bankable as the decisions taken long before financial close, argues the CEO and founder of Solarif Group. Effective De-Risking starts at the drawing board, not at the signing table.

Fixed-tilt and facing the same direction: not always a given in energy policy

IEA: Middle East crisis driving investment in electrification

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Countries are responding to the second energy crisis in five years by expanding electricity investment and turning to new supply routes and domestic resources, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports.

The Solar Investors Guide is published at regular intervals.

Solar Investors Guide #1 – 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.

Solar field, substation, containers: the anatomy of a hybrid PPA

Buyers chasing value, not price, in Europe's PPA market

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Corporate energy buyers are increasingly choosing hybrid PPAs for their settlement value rather than their price, even as LevelTen Energy's Q2 index shows solar prices recovering on gas-driven wholesale gains.

The subsidy is only available if the applicant actually lives in the house

Croatia – €36 million earmarked for solar, storage and heat pump grants

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Homeowners can claim up to 50 percent of installation costs from 2 September, with battery storage funded only alongside a new photovoltaic system.

The kind of scale that made the financing possible and now makes the shortfall harder to absorb

Greece – overdue loans mount as solar producers feel the squeeze

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Banks are stepping up warnings to solar operators as loans fall into arrears, with output restrictions and falling power prices squeezing project income and pushing some towards default.

Unlike Troia in Puglia, pictured here, the Vizzini plant will keep the land in agricultural use

Sheep, solar and €234 million financing for Sicily's agri-PV giant

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Four international banks are backing European Energy's 225 MW Vizzini plant, which combines utility-scale generation with animal grazing, positioning agrivoltaics as a bankable asset class in Italy.

Loudwater 39 MW/55 MWh battery storage plant near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, UK

NextEnergy's UK fund grows with 107 MW battery acquisition

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The solar and storage investor's UK fund has added three operational battery sites in southeast England, taking standalone capacity to 165 MW after NEUK I's £733 million final close.

Agri-PV works when the panels adapt to the farm, not the other way round

Agri-PV – a second harvest, if the planning is right

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Farmers rarely have time to master permits, mapping and grid procedures alongside the day job. Developers such as Hamburg-based Metavolt now handle the entire journey, from initial idea to completed installation.

PPAs offer a means of advancing the energy transition without public subsidies

Croatia still lagging on PPAs as barriers persist

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A new report from the Croatian Renewable Energy Association maps the barriers holding back a market that has gained traction elsewhere in Europe, from regulatory complexity to the near-absence of municipal and community contracts.

To qualify for feed-in tariffs, larger solar parks were simply split into many smaller installations

Bosnia and Herzegovina – new solar spacing rules in Republika Srpska

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The amended Renewable Energy Act targets developers splitting large solar parks into sub-150-kilowatt units running to multi-megawatt scale, to claim 15-year feed-in tariffs and avoid concession fees.

The Loutsa solar park in central Greece

Greece – EBRD and NextGenerationEU back 32 MW park for industry

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A €18.9 million financing package will support construction of the solar installation at Hellenic Halyvourgia's steelworks, covering around 20% of electricity needs and cutting annual carbon emissions by more than 22,000 tonnes.

Representatives of the EIB and Ingeteam signing the loan agreement

EIB backs Ingeteam with €75 million for renewables R&D

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Spain's Ingeteam will use the European Investment Bank funding to advance grid integration, power electronics and energy storage, with the work partly aimed at reducing dependence on non-European suppliers.

The idea is simple; the legislation is not

Shared energy, tangled rules: Croatia's community model falters

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Regulatory inconsistency, slow specification processes and limited public sector engagement are preventing Croatia's energy community model from moving beyond the earliest stages.

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Peakup Power Establishes European HQ Ahead of Intersolar Munich, to Unveil Next-Gen PEC-BC Technology

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Every breakthrough in photovoltaic technology brings us one step closer to a greener future. As a world-leading provider of PEC-BC lightweight modules and BIPV solutions, Peakup Power is proud to announce the establishment of our European headquarters – Peakup Europe GmbH – in Germany.

PV storage projects in Greece are gaining stronger backing from banks

Greece – storage steps in as PV tariffs lose their shine

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Domestic banks have approved financing for storage on operating PV assets, with talks now underway to extend the model from single sites to full photovoltaic portfolios.

Sun and storage may be aligned, as here in Denmark, but financing is still catching up

Eurelectric urges derisking over clean energy financing gap

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A €500 billion yearly shortfall in clean energy funding risks slowing electrification. The power sector body Eurelectric sets out a series of measures to improve regulatory stability, strengthen investor confidence and unlock private capital.

A modest array and a sizeable signal for Greek residential solar

Revised Greece 2.0 plan tilts towards rooftop PV

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The reworked national recovery package shifts weight towards small-scale PV on homes and farms, with previous goals for solar water heaters and heat pumps pared back after persistent rollout difficulties.