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Daily updatesSolarQair wins consent for 98 MW Scottish solar site with 100 MW BESS
The South Lanarkshire project is Scotland's largest permitted PV development and pairs generation with grid-scale storage.
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Daily updatesSolarGülermak acquires 69 MW Powidz 2 solar project in Poland
The ready-to-build site is slated for construction in 2027, expanding Gülermak's renewable footprint in Central Europe.
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Daily updatesSolarSpain added 10.1 GW of solar in 2025 as capture prices weigh on pipeline
UNEF data shows ground-mounted PV led with 8.97 GW, but falling captured prices are raising pressure on new project economics.
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Daily updatesSolarIrish summer solar generation jumps 58% as 1.3 GW peak set in August
Grid-scale solar hit a new record peak this summer, underlining rapid capacity buildout across the Irish zone.
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Daily updatesSolarEU solar on track for 68.1 GW in 2026 despite grid and policy drag
SolarPower Europe reports 33.8 GW deployed in H1 2026, putting the full year 2.1% below the 2025 record.
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Daily updatesSolarEnerparc files for insolvency months after €1 bn financing deal
The German solar developer entered preliminary insolvency proceedings at the parent-company level on 8 September 2026.
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Daily updatesSolarAlight commissions 101 MW solar park in Finland
The Eurajoki solar park is online, with a co-located BESS planned for next year.
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Daily updatesSolarIberian solar ancillary services participation lifts revenues up to 35%
Aurora Energy Research finds solar assets active in ancillary services in Iberia can earn up to 35% more than those that do not.
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Daily updatesSolarPortugal's 220 MW Solara4 enters administration as price pressure bites
Welink Energy Portugal 2 UK cited weak generation, low wholesale prices, technical issues and rising costs as cash flow collapsed.
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Daily updatesSolarZelestra brings first German solar plant online at 27.5 MWdc
The Klevenow plant marks Zelestra's operational debut in the German zone.
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Daily updatesSolarGermany hits 128 GW solar as July auction draws bids
BSW-Solar flags policy risk to further growth even as Bundesnetzagentur reports oversubscription in its latest tender.
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Daily updatesSolarPerigus brings 81 MW Garreenleen solar farm online in Carlow
Ireland's first Perigus-operated solar farm is fully operational, adding 81 MW to the Irish grid.
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Daily updatesSolarGermany clears 2.1 GW in ground-mounted solar tender at €0.0479/kWh average
Bundesnetzagentur awarded 261 bids in its July auction, with the lowest bid hitting €0.043/kWh and Bavaria taking the largest share.
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Daily updatesSolarStatkraft wins consent for 32 MW Cornwall solar-plus-storage site
The project pairs a 32 MW solar array with a battery energy storage system and is Statkraft's latest UK development approval.
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Daily updatesSolarFinland adds 478 MW of utility-scale solar in H1 2026
Eight plants larger than 1 MW commissioned in six months, more than doubling Finland's installed utility-scale capacity.
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Daily updatesSolarIreland sets new daily solar peak above 1.2 GW
Tuesday's record output marks a milestone for a market that has added utility-scale solar capacity rapidly.
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Daily updatesSolarEuropean Energy banks €234m for Italian agrivoltaic solar build
Four lenders back a Sicilian agrivoltaic development as Italy's solar capture price holds at €125/MWh.
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Daily updatesSolarSpain braces for 5 GW solar drop during 12 August eclipse
Red Eléctrica estimates peak PV output will fall ~5 GW, around 13% of typical August Wednesday demand, but system adequacy is not at risk.
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Daily updatesSolarLatvia's solar capacity passes 1.5 GW after record 2026 build
Around 600 MW installed year-to-date already makes 2026 Latvia's biggest solar deployment year on record.
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Daily updatesSolarUAV framework detects faulty solar modules with 96.6% accuracy
Spanish researchers tested a three-phase drone inspection method at two utility-scale PV sites in England.
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Daily updatesSolarFive zones set August daily solar records over the weekend
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal each logged new August daily solar highs, yet weekly prices stayed above €100/MWh.
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Daily updatesSolarGerman solar hits record 12 TWh in July, topping June's first-ever 11 TWh month
Back-to-back monthly records show accelerating PV output in the German zone as summer generation peaks.
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Daily updatesSolarSolar tops 20% of EU electricity demand for three straight months
Fraunhofer ISE data shows PV held above 20% share in May, June, and July, a first for the EU.
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Daily updatesSolarItaly clears 599 MW agrivoltaic plant in Puglia
Rome's environment ministry issued a positive EIA for one of Italy's largest agrivoltaic projects, subject to conditions.
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Daily updatesSolarFrench residential solar installations fell sharply in 2025
Regulatory and tariff changes reshaped the small-scale segment, per Observ'ER research.
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Daily updatesSolarBP nears sale of Lightsource solar business to Kuwait-backed group
BP is in advanced talks to offload Lightsource to a consortium including Qualitas and a Kuwait-backed investment fund, per the FT.
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Daily updatesSolarItalian energy communities reach 303 MW as PNRR funds unlock 1.74 GW pipeline
Italy's 3,630 active renewable energy communities hold 302.9 MW of operational capacity, backed by €768.3 million in approved PNRR grants.
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EditorialSolarSpainThe month the sun worked for three euros
Spanish solar capture prices fell from €61 in spring 2023 to €2.97 in May 2025. We computed the collapse from our own data, and it has reached winter.
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Daily updatesSolarGerman rooftop solar auction undersubscribed again in June
BNetzA's June round fell short of capacity targets despite a material rise in submitted bid volume.
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EditorialSolarGermanyThe summer power cost less than nothing
Why Europe’s sunniest Sundays now clear below zero, who pays to generate at minus 250 euros, and why the system cannot simply switch the solar off.
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Daily updatesSolarItaly's solar capture price falls below market average in southern regions
Rising PV output is widening the gap between solar capture prices and wholesale averages across Italy's south.
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Daily updatesSolarSolar becomes EU's largest power source for first time in June
European solar generation topped every other source in June 2026, a first for any calendar month across the bloc.
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Daily updatesSolarEl Niño to lift European irradiance above average through end of 2026
Solcast forecasts above-normal solar resource across Europe in H2 2026, extending a first-half surplus.
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Daily updatesSolarItaly's largest solar plant connects as European capacity builds
A new Italian record-holder comes online via PPAs, while Plenitude's 220 MW Spanish project and a 60 MW UK CfD plant also start generation.
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Daily updatesSolarChina sets mandatory PV efficiency standards to tackle overcapacity
New rules covering polysilicon to modules and inverters take effect 1 January 2027, reshaping procurement across the supply chain.
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Daily updatesSolarEurope's solar boom is straining power markets as capacity surges
Reuters flags growing market stress as European solar output scales; RWE and PPC add 930 MW in Greece alone.
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Daily updatesSolarGermany clears 482 MW solar-plus-storage at €0.0534/kWh average
The latest German innovative renewables tender sets a price floor of €0.0475/kWh and a ceiling of €0.0559/kWh across awarded contracts.
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Daily updatesSolarUK solar M&A picks up with three site transactions in 48 hours
Innagreen, Enviromena, and a Centrica–Push Power partnership each secured separate UK PV assets between 23–24 June 2026.
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Daily updatesSolarCarbon scraps 5 GW French solar gigafactory amid policy vacuum
The Fos-sur-Mer integrated manufacturing project collapses after Carbon fails to secure regulatory visibility or investor guarantees.
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Daily updatesSolarBritain reached 20 GW of solar with no CfD support
Modo Energy examines how merchant and subsidy-free routes drove the UK's solar buildout to 20 GW.
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