Europe’s largest operational battery just switched on: the 500 MW/1 GWh Coalburn 1 in Scotland, developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/08/12/europes-largest-battery-comes-online-in-scotland/ One project, but it’s a marker of where the whole sector is heading. Europe posted a record 129 TWh of solar output in Q2 2026, and Spain alone logged close to 600 negative-price hours…
Brookfield and La Caisse just completed the take-private of Boralex — one of Canada’s oldest independent renewable platforms, delisting from Toronto next week. https://www.renews.biz/other-news/brookfield-la-caisse-complete-boralex-acquisition/ It’s the latest signal of a consolidation wave running through renewables: large infrastructure capital buying scale and platform capability outright, rather than building it project by project. We see the same…
pv magazine’s July review of last year’s Iberian blackout has a blunt diagnosis: the system that left 60 million people without power lacked the storage to absorb the shock. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/24/the-iberian-bess-paradox/ A year on, storage is still the industry’s unresolved question — not because the case for it is unclear, but because the route to build…
Portugal’s wind output jumped 37% week-on-week in the first days of August. Spain’s fell 5.7% over the same seven days. https://aleasoft.com/more-wind-lower-demand-european-power-prices-august-2026/ Same peninsula, same week, opposite direction. AleaSoft’s data also shows Spain, Portugal, France and Germany each set new daily solar PV records in early August — and Iberian prices still rose rather than fell,…
🌬️ Spain’s wind fleet posted its highest single day of the year on 5 August — 277 GWh — with lighter demand pushing prices down across European power markets the same week. 👉 https://elperiodicodelaenergia.com/la-mayor-produccion-eolica-y-la-menor-demanda-favorecen-descensos-de-precios-en-los-mercados-electricos-europeos-en-la-primera-semana-de-agosto Good wind days make headlines. What determines whether a project actually captures that resource over 20+ years gets decided years earlier,…
TotalEnergies just agreed to buy Shell’s entire European onshore renewables business — 500 MW of operating and under-construction solar and wind, plus a 3.5 GW pipeline across four countries — and in the same announcement, sold a 50% stake in a separate €1.8bn portfolio to KKR. https://www.renews.biz/other-news/totalenergies-swoops-for-shells-european-renewables-business/ One seller, one buyer, two completely different transaction…
Solar just became Portugal’s single largest source of electricity for the first time — 19% of national consumption in July, ahead of hydro, wind and biomass, with renewables covering 53% of demand for the month (pv-magazine.com, 7 Aug 2026). That’s a milestone worth celebrating. It is also a pricing problem. Spain logged 397 hours of…
Acciona just sold a 361 MW Spanish wind portfolio to Galp for €432 million — 15 operating parks, an average age of 21 years, and a clean, predictable cash flow story (energias-renovables.com, 27 Jul 2026). That deal is a signal, not an outlier. Capital is rotating away from development-stage solar and toward operating wind assets…
On 14 September, Portugal runs its first dedicated storage capacity auction — 1.05 GW split between 750 MW standalone BESS and 300 MW co-located with existing renewables, spread across grid nodes from Rio Maior to Tavira. We’re seeing the standalone-vs-co-located question stop being a footnote and start driving the whole development services agreement. Co-location borrows…
Acciona just closed the sale of a 361 MW Spanish wind portfolio to Galp for €432m — Galp’s second Spanish wind acquisition this year, after a 351 MW parcel from Plenium and Bankinter back in April. That pace tells a story we’re living from the intermediary’s chair. Iberian wind is entering its consolidation phase. Assets…
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