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/LONDON, July 25, 2025, 10:30 BST, IRENA, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH™/ Total installed costs for renewable energy decreased by over 10% for all technologies between 2023 and 2024, except for solar (very small increase), offshore wind, which remained stable, and bioenergy, where costs increased by 16%.

/DUBLIN, IRELAND, July 23, 2025, 10:30 IST, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH™/ The Irish government has approved a significant €3.5 billion investment in the country's electricity grid infrastructure, covering the period from 2026 to 2030. This is the largest single investment in Ireland’s electricity network in its history. This transformative initiative will enhance the country’s energy security, support economic growth, and accelerate the transition to renewable energy.

/MUNICH, GERMANY, July 9, 2025, 10:00 CET, BayWa r.e./ BayWa r.e. has concluded a comprehensive refinancing package with its shareholders and financing partners, securing funding until the middle of 2029. The agreement, totalling around €3 billion, includes bank loans, shareholder loans and operational guarantees.

/RIGA, LATVIA, June 30, 2025, 10:00 CET, Sunly/ The Latvian Investment and Development Agency (LIAA) has granted Priority Investment Project status to Sunly’s planned wind and solar energy projects in Saldus Municipality’s Zirņi Parish and Kuldīga Municipality’s Skrunda Parish. The plans include the development of a wind park with a capacity of up to 200 MW. In parallel, construction of the first phase (~100 MW) of Sunly’s solar park in Zirņi Parish is already underway.

/Madrid, SPAIN, June 19, 2025, 9:30 CET, Iberdrola/ Iberdrola España, Iberdrola's subsidiary in Spain, and Renfe, Spain's main railway company, join forces to promote the use of wind power in passenger and freight rail transport in Spain, the most electrified mode of transport. The two companies have signed an agreement to purchase onshore wind energy through a VPPA (Virtual Power Purchase Agreement) for 370 GWh a year for a period of 10 years, equivalent to the output generated by 190 MW of wind power.

/Brakel, North Rhine-Westphalia, GERMANY, June 16, 2025, 9:00 CET, BayWa r.e./ German developer, investor, and operator ENOVA has acquired the Dollenkamp wind energy project, with an installed capacity of around 45 MW, from BayWa r.e. This transaction further expands ENOVA's renewable energy portfolio and its regional footprint.

/ESSEN, GERMANY, June 10, 2025, 10:00 CET, RWE/ RWE announces the official inauguration of the Beg Ar C’Hra wind farm, located in the municipalities of Plounévez-Moëdec and Plounérin, in Brittany, France. The project was co-developed in partnership with the Lannion-Trégor semi-public company (SEM). This collaboration led to the granting of the environmental permit in 2022 without appeal. Construction of the wind farm began a year later, in the fall of 2023, with successful commissioning in November 2024.

/BUCHAREST, July 4, 2024, 9:00 CEST, Bekaert, Rezolv Energy/ Rezolv Energy, the Actis-backed independent power producer in Central and Southeastern Europe, through their project subsidiary First Looks Solutions S.R.L., have signed a 10-year Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) in Romania with Bekaert, a global leader in steel wire transformation and coating technologies. This is one of the largest PPAs ever signed in the region. The deal will see Bekaert buy 100 GWh of additional renewable power per year, reducing annual emissions by more than 41 000 tonnes of CO2e. The power…

/LONDON, December 27, 2021, 10:00 GMT, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ The Swiss energy company MET Group finalised the transaction for a 100% stake in a 60MW wind park in Bulgaria. MET Group signed a share purchase agreement with Spanish Grupo Enhol to acquire the operating wind asset earlier (on 30 July 2021) this year. With this acquisition, the company continues to follow its target of 500MW operational renewable energy power plants in the Central East Europe (CEE) region by 2023. The transaction is essential in achieving MET’s renewables growth targets in the CEE…