eastern europe

Solar PV plants generated 10% of the EU-27’s electricity demand during June and July this year, new analysis by energy thinktank Ember has found.

The government of Serbia has signed an agreement with US company UGT Renewables to cooperate on the construction of solar and energy storage projects in the Balkan country.

The European Commission has approved Lithuania’s recovery plan, which included a €242 million investment in renewable energy under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

Seraphim Solar has become the latest mainstream module manufacturer to take aim at the Central Europe solar market, signing distribution agreements with a distributor and installer in the region.

Photon Energy has reached more than 420MWp of PV projects under development, as the Netherlands-based renewables company weathered the impacts of COVID-19 on its financial performance last year.

Renewables developer and distributor BayWa r.e. will open new offices and a warehouse in Poland to improve its services for PV installers in the country.

Renewables group signs power purchase agreement (PPA) for what it claims is Poland’s first subsidy-free solar park.

Poland’s largest utility plans to develop 3GW of solar PV over the next ten years as it looks to ramp up decarbonisation efforts and become carbon neutral by 2050.

Central and southeastern European countries could cost-effectively cover more than one-third (34%) of their energy demand with renewables within ten years, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds.

BayWa r.e. has broken ground on a 64.6MWp solar farm in Poland – the country’s largest – as it sets sights on a 600MW portfolio in the country.