Renewable energy is a hot topic, pun intended. In order to combat global warming and climate change, many countries are implementing more renewable energy, including most countries throughout Europe.  If you’re interested in the status of renewable energy in Europe, you’re at the right place. Read on for some important things to know, from promising […]

Many countries such as Brazil, Germany, etc. have combined renewable energy auctions of both wind and solar energy to get the cheapest prices for green power generation instead of going for separate auctions for solar and wind energy. This gives them greater optionality and variety in terms of load generation and prices. However, solar energy’s sharp technological improvement […]

The rise of green parties in Europe has had a hugely positive effect on the fight against climate change. Countries such as Germany, Austria, and others have seen green parties become part of the government and push their agenda to fight global warming and increase the share of renewable energy. Austria recently saw the election […]

Europe is seeing a strong resurgence in solar capacity additions as grid parity has made it economical to install solar energy as compared to other power sources. All major European countries such as Germany, France, Spain, etc. have seen their annual capacities double in the last 12 months driven by the extremely low costs of solar […]

The long-awaited grid parity had arrived in the last couple of years in multiple places such as India where both solar and wind prices are now below that of fossil fuel power prices. This is not multiplying to other places and situations as the prices of solar technology continue to trend lower and lower each […]

The world has become somewhat immune to the repeated news chatter of a new record low in solar prices. Given last year, almost every month used to bring another record in solar auctions conducted around the world (Mexico, Saudi Arabia, USA, etc.), solar auction prices had become run of the mill with no one paying […]