Category: European Investors
EDF Power Solutions has acquired the 500MW Gate Burton Energy Park solar and storage project in Lincolnshire from Low Carbon. The deal marks a major milestone for one of the first large-scale Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) to receive consent following the 2024 general election. Gate Burton was granted a Development Consent Order in July […]
Octopus Energy Generation, the renewable energy investment arm of Octopus Energy Group, has announced the acquisition of MN Projects, a green energy developer based in Hamburg, Germany. The transaction gives Octopus access to a pipeline exceeding 2GW of renewable energy projects, significantly strengthening its position in the German energy market. MN Projects is currently developing […]
INRG has completed the sale of the Little Crow project—a 150MWp solar photovoltaic installation co-located with a 60MW battery energy storage system (BESS)—to British Solar Renewables (BSR). The project, designated as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP), is only the second solar PV project in the UK to secure a Development Consent Order (DCO). The […]
European Energy has completed the sale of the 215MW Lidsø solar park in Lolland, Denmark, to Nordic independent power producer Alight. The Lidsø solar park began construction in the summer of 2024 and is scheduled for commissioning in the summer of 2025. European Energy not only developed the project but has also secured long-term power […]
The L&G NTR Clean Power (Europe) Fund has acquired Project Monvallet, a ready-to-build solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio with a combined capacity of over 211 MW in County Louth, Ireland. The portfolio, acquired from Strategic Power Projects (SPP), consists of Monvallet Solar and Hazelboro. Construction of the solar plant will start in […]
Since Finland is known for its long, dark winters without much sunlight, Finland is not the first country to come to mind when thinking about solar power. But this is wrong. Finland actually has a lot of solar potential that compares to the rest of Central Europe. The reason for that is that the long […]
In 2022, the solar energy capacity in Norway peaked at 321MW, which is a significant increase compared to the 205MW in 2021. Because the Norwegian solar industry is not as well developed as in other countries yet, investors in Norwegian solar energy projects are all the more relevant. This is why we have decided to […]
The sector of utility-scale solar parks in Sweden is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. The three investors in this list are an extract of our database. They are partaking in the change towards a more sustainable future by investing into large-scale solar assets in Sweden. 1) Infranode (Stockholm, Sweden) The Stockholm-based firm […]
Solar energy in Denmark has been increasing constantly over the years. Especially in the year 2012, there was a rapid growth burst in installed MW from 9 to 316 MW. Thus, the country‘s goal of reaching 200 MW of solar energy by 2020 was reached ahead of time. Since then, solar energy has been continuously […]
Interestingly, Denmark was one of the first countries to eagerly spur on the development of wind power during the Seventies. Nowadays, manufacturers from Denmark still produce a huge part of the turbines that are developed for wind projects worldwide. The following three companies are an extract from a bigger database of companies which have developed […]