Spain’s wind fleet hit its 2026 high in August

Iberia’s battery storage pipeline just crossed another threshold: over 11 GW of BESS capacity now quoted across the region by a single major supplier, with battery costs still up roughly 8% year-to-date on lithium volatility, per recent market data. That combination — surging demand and firmer pricing — is exactly the environment where technical rigour…

Two multi-gigawatt renewables portfolios changed hands in the last month — Aditya Birla’s 5 GW pickup of Shell’s Sprng Energy platform, and Masdar’s move toward roughly 4.1 GW of operating capacity across Iberia through its Repsol partnership. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/14/aditya-birla-group-to-acquire-sprng-energy-from-shell/ ; https://www.energyglobal.com/wind/12062026/repsol-and-masdar-to-partner-in-849-million-renewables-portfolio-in-spain/amp/ Capital is consolidating fast, and it is consolidating around scale. From the M&A intermediation side,…

South Africa’s energy regulator just approved 890 MW of new solar PV generation licences in a single decision. It’s a reminder that across every market we work in — Portugal, Spain, the Gulf, sub-Saharan Africa — permitting and licensing is where projects actually get made or lost, long before a PPA or financial close gets…

Portugal has set a target of 5 GW of pumped hydro storage by 2040, positioning long-duration storage as the backbone of its energy strategy alongside the 750 MVA battery auction already underway. That framing matters. Batteries solve for hours; pumped hydro solves for days. A strategy that names both, rather than treating storage as one…

Portugal just closed a public consultation on its first National Energy Storage Strategy, run alongside a competitive tender for 750 MW of battery capacity — the window shut on 20 July. Auction design like this forces a very practical question onto the development desk: hybridisation rules. Can a battery co-located with solar or wind share…

South Africa just approved 890 MW of new solar PV under REIPPPP Bid Window 7.3 — another reminder that in this market, competitive process is what turns a greenfield pipeline into steel in the ground. We see the same dynamic every week on the M&A side of our business. A capacity-rich SPV rarely finds its…