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Romania’s solar capacity exceeds 8.5 GW Romania’s solar market continues to grow with around 1.8 GW installed since the start of the year. The country appears on track to reach its current 2030 target of 10 GW as early as next year.
Patrick Jowett
Aug 04, 2026
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France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal set daily solar records for August AleaSoft Energy Forecasting recorded five new records for solar produced on a day in August over the weekend. Despite these records, the weekly average electricity price stood in excess of €100 ($115.10)/MWh across these markets last week.
Patrick Jowett
Aug 04, 2026
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Applications & Installations
The controversy over fire classification of BIPV systems In a new monthly column for pv magazine, the Becquerel Institute explains that a number of photovoltaic façade products are recently being marketed as “non-combustible” under EN 13501-1. These claims are causing confusion in the construction sector and controversy among European manufacturers, raising the questions: what do these classifications actually certify, and can a conventional BIPV module meet them at all?
Becquerel Institute
Aug 03, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Germany reduces solar feed-in tariffs by 1% Fixed feed-in tariffs for solar systems under the partial feed-in model will now range from €0.0544 ($0.063)/kWh to €0.0770/kWh, while systems operating under the full feed-in model will receive between €0.1024/kWh and €0.1222/kWh.
Sandra Enkhardt
Aug 03, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Solar’s share of EU electricity demand tops 20% for three consecutive months Data compiled by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE shows photovoltaics supplied more than 20% of EU electricity demand in May, June and July for the first time. Latvia set a new EU record, with solar meeting 49% of the country’s electricity demand in June.
Sandra Enkhardt
Jul 31, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Italy records 88 zero-price hours in H1 Italy’s wholesale electricity market recorded 88 zero-price hours in the first half of 2026, compared with 20 in the first half of 2025.
Massimiliano Tripodo
Jul 31, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Europe’s heatwave brings high irradiance as smoke, dust impact southern PV systems In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that Europe’s July heatwave led to positive irradiance anomalies across western and northern Europe, while wildfires in France and Spain and Saharan dust outbreaks increased the risk of panel soiling in the south of the continent.
Solcast
Jul 31, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Türkiye adds 2.1 GW of solar in H1 Türkiye’s solar additions from the first half of the year take total capacity to around 26.9 GW. The number of solar plants in the country now exceeds 41,000, up from around 37,600 at the start of the year.
Patrick Jowett
Jul 30, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Serbia adds 61 MW of solar in H1 After the first six months of the year, Serbia’s solar capacity reached around 379 MW. While the country’s green energy market has been impacted by delays in permitting and grid connection processes, its prosumer market continues to grow.
Patrick Jowett
Jul 29, 2026