/9^th March 2021, UNEF/ The Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF) has managed to get Castilla-La Mancha to approve the adaptation of the regional urban planning laws regarding the self-consumption solar PV systems. These facilities are treated through prior communication, which considerably speeds up administrative processing. With this, it would already be more than half the Autonomous Communities that have eliminated this administrative barrier to self-consumption solar PV systems and, therefore, streamlined the approval processes.

/27^th January 2020, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ The global cleaning robot market size was valued at USD 2.63 billion in 2019 by Renewable Market Watch™ and is anticipated to witness a CAGR of 13.7% by 2025. Major functions of a cleaning robot include determining the position of the area to be cleaned, identifying the shortest path to occupy that position, and cleaning the desired area with the attached vacuum cleaner.

/LONDON, February 18, 2022, 11:30 GMT, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ Slovenian Petrol Group will invest in solar PV power plants in the Knin area of Croatia. These are three large solar power plants with a total installed capacity of 22 MW and the expected electricity generation capacity of 29 GWh as the projects completed permitting development in 2021. The solar power plants, whose total investment value is estimated at EUR 17 million, will start generating power at the beginning of 2023.

/NIESTETAL, GERMANY, March 13, 2023, 11:15 GMT, SMA/ Solar Technology AG (SMA/ISIN: DE000A0DJ6J9/FWB: S92) has presented provisional, non-audited figures for 2022 as a whole. The figures report that SMA group sales rose by 8.4% year on year to €1,065.9 million (2021: €983.4 million) despite pronounced procurement supply shortages. Earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation (EBITDA) increased significantly to €70.0 million from €8.5 million in the 2021 fiscal year. This corresponds to an EBITDA margin of 6.6% (2021: 0.9%).

/MADRID, March 1, 2023, 11:00 GMT, Sonnedix/ Sonnedix, the international renewable energy producer, and Endesa Spain’s largest electric company, have signed a twelve-year renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA). The green energy is produced by a 77MW solar PV portfolio acquired by Sonnedix in July 2021, comprised of five solar plants located in Valladolid, Castilla y León province of Spain. The projects are currently under construction and are expected to start operations within the first quarter of 2023. 

/MADRID, May 23, 2024, 12:00 CET, Statkraft/ Statkraft has completed the acquisition of the renewable company Enerfin, which is headquartered in Spain. The closing of the Enerfin deal significantly builds scale and strengthens Statkraft’s position in Spain and Brazil. The transaction adds a portfolio of 1.5 GW of wind and solar power projects in operation and under construction, as well as a pipeline of projects under development.

/18^th May 2020, SolarPower Europe/ At the initiative of Pascal Canfin, Chair of the Environment Committee at the European Parliament, 180 political decision-makers, business leaders, trade unions, NGOs, and think tanks have come together to form a European Alliance for a Green Recovery. In the face of the coronavirus crisis, the biggest challenge Europe has faced in peacetime, with devastating consequences and a shock to the economy tougher than the 2008 crisis, Ministers from 11 countries, 79 cross-party MEPs from 17 Member States, 37 CEOs, 28 business associations representing 10 different sectors, trade union confederation representing members from 90 national trade union organisations and 10 trade union federations, 7 NGOs and 6 think tanks, have committed to working together to create, support and implement solutions to prepare our economies for the world of tomorrow.

/5^th October 2020, The European Commission, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ In response to a call for applications on 18 June 2020, the Commission selected 50 members and 10 special observers on the basis of their environmental, sustainable finance or social/human rights expertise. At the beginning of this month, the European Commission published the list of members of the Platform on sustainable finance. The platform will advise the Commission on the development of technical screening criteria for the EU taxonomy, and policy development, amongst other things, as required by the taxonomy Regulation.

/18^th September 2020, The European Commission, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ The European Commission presented today its plan to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. This level of ambition for the next decade will put the EU on a balanced pathway to reaching climate neutrality by 2050. The new target is based on a comprehensive Impact Assessment of the social, economic and environmental impacts. The Assessment demonstrates that this course of action is realistic and feasible. This raised ambition also underlines the EU's continued global leadership, ahead of the next UN climate conference (COP26).

/5^th January 2020, Sun'Agri, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ The French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) has announced the results of its third “innovative solar photovoltaic” call for tenders. Thirty-one winning projects are agrivoltaic systems, 72% of which correspond to 22 projects using Sun'Agri technology, a breakthrough innovation allowing agriculture to adapt to climate change. This call for tenders confirms French ambitions in terms of agrivoltaic systems.

/PARIS, FRANCE, November 28, 2024, 11:00 CET, TSE/ After raising 130 million euros in equity from Eurazeo, Crédit Agricole and Bpifrance in 2023, TSE, a developer and producer of solar energy in France, is strengthening its financing structure by raising a bond debt for an amount of 65 million euros today from the Eiffel Investment Group fund. Thanks to this operation, the group is continuing its development to reach more than 1 gigawatt of assets under construction and in operation by 2027, in line with its strategic roadmap.

/17^th June 2020, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ This market report offers an incisive and reliable long-term overview of the country's photovoltaic sector for the next long term period 2020 ÷ 2030. Turkey has the sixth-largest electricity market in Europe and one of the fastest-growing in the world. Because of cuts in FIT’s announced in Germany, Spain, France, UK, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Italy after 2012, Turkey represents interesting investment environment in South-East Europe with excellent solar irradiation.

/LONDON, September 20, 2024, 14:00 GMT, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ Türkiye has announced plans to increase its renewable energy generation capacity with 60 GW of new solar and wind facilities by 2035. New investments of USD 10 billion will be implemented to strengthen the grid network. Up to USD 100 billion will be spent on this new initiative, and the country's cumulative solar and wind capacity will exceed 100 GW by 2035..

/18^th November 2020, Priyanka Shrestha, Energy Live News/ The UK has launched research into whether solar power in space could offer the potential for an unlimited and constant zero carbon source, backed by the government and the Space Agency. The government is commissioning the project into space-based solar power (SBSP) systems that would use very large solar satellites to collect renewable energy, convert it into radio waves and safely beam it back to ground-based receivers connected to the electric grid..

/21^st December 2020, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ The technical and economic potential for clean power generation from solar PV, wind, and bioenergy in Ukraine is considerable. Broader development of renewable energy would also play an essential role in existing policy goals of reducing the dependency on imported natural gas and diversification of the more secure energy supply. Ukrainian solar and wind power sectors scored remarkable progress between 2012 and 2020. 

/9^th February 2020, Global Solar Council/ The Unión Española Fotovoltaica (UNEF) doubly celebrates the success of the first renewable energy auction in Spain call since 2017 in which photovoltaic energy has demonstrated its competitiveness by achieving 2,036 MW of the 3,034 auctioned MW. It also congratulates itself because the awarding has been widely distributed among companies and has covered all sizes of projects, accommodating a wide variety of players.

/LONDON, July 18, 2024, 9:00 BST, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ This market report offers an incisive and reliable overview of the photovoltaic sector of the country for the next long-term period, 2024 ÷ 2033. UK's photovoltaic sector has witnessed remarkable growth in the past two decades, positioning the country among the leaders in Europe in installed solar photovoltaic capacity.

/28^th December 2020, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ At the beginning of 2021, the country plans to launch a tender for up to 300 MW solar project in the Sherabad district of the Surkhandarya region, according to the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan ant this part of a pipeline of 1 GW solar projects that are projected to be built in Uzbekistan in 2021 and 2024.

/23^rd December 2020, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH^TM/ This market report offers an incisive and reliable long-term overview of the country's photovoltaic sector for the next long term period 2020 ÷ 2030. Because of cuts in FIT’s announced in Germany, Spain, France, UK, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Italy after 2012, the Republic of Uzbekistan represents a stable investment environment in CIS region with clear rules and auction (tender) procedure. Current cumulative installed PV capacity in the country is insignificant, but a number of solar projects will promptly increase in 2020 and next years.

/STOCKHOLM, July 20, 2023, 08:05 CET, Vattenfall/ Vattenfall has acquired the German solar developer Solizer. The transaction includes an experienced team and a pipeline of large-scale solar projects in Germany with a volume of 4 GW. This acquisition expands Vattenfall’s German solar development portfolio to 7 GW in total. The first projects from the new portfolio can be ready for construction as early as 2024.