Stock Market Week 09/26: RENIXX Hits New Yearly High - Nordex With Strong Performance - US Solar Stocks Under Pressure:...
The RENIXX renewable‑energy index closed the week at a record 1,288.68 points, though it quickly retreated into a sideways range. German turbine maker Nordex led gains with a 26.3% jump after reporting record 2025 revenue of €7.6 billion and strong order intake. By contrast, U.S. solar firms Sunrun, Array Technologies, First Solar and Canadian Solar posted double‑digit losses despite revenue growth, driven by cautious 2026 guidance. Vestas secured a 1.38 GW offshore order, underscoring wind’s continued momentum.
European Solar Industry: PV Hybrid Systems and New Financing Models in Focus at Intersolar Europe 2026
The European solar market posted strong growth in 2025, with Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Poland driving capacity additions. At Intersolar Europe 2026, industry leaders will showcase PV‑wind‑storage hybrid plants and new financing structures, especially Contracts for Difference (CfD). Falling...
Sunrun Experiences Storage Boom: Sunrun Significantly Increases Subscribers and Revenue – Stock Rises
Sunrun posted a blockbuster Q4 and full‑year 2025, with revenue soaring to $1.16 billion in the quarter and $2.96 billion for the year. Net income flipped to $449.9 million, erasing a multi‑billion‑dollar loss from 2024, and diluted EPS rose to $1.71. The company’s...
Array Technologies Disappoints: Array Technologies Boosts 2025 Revenue by 40 Percent - Record Order Backlog - Shares Still Plunge
Array Technologies posted Q4 2025 revenue of $226 million, an 18% YoY decline, while full‑year revenue jumped 40% to $1.28 billion. The company narrowed its net loss to $112 million but remained in the red, and its order backlog reached a record $2.2 billion. Guidance...
Nel ASA Stock Turns Positive After Weak Figures: Revenue Declines - Losses Widen - Order Intake Rises Significantly
Nel ASA posted a steep revenue decline in Q4 and the full‑year 2025, with Q4 revenue down 21% YoY to NOK 330 million and full‑year revenue falling 31% to NOK 963 million. Net losses widened dramatically, driven by a NOK 799 million impairment charge that pushed...
Green Value Supports Transaction: Green Value GmbH Assists Balance Erneuerbare Energien GmbH in Biogas Portfolio Acquisition
Green Value GmbH assisted Balance Erneuerbare Energien GmbH in acquiring a 46 MW portfolio of biogas plants located in Saxony, Saxony‑Anhalt and Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern. The transaction includes technical due diligence and risk assessment performed by Green Value, with plans to modernize and...
Ormat Announces Stable Quarterly Dividend of USD 0.12: Double-Digit Revenue Growth in Q4 and Full Year 2025 – Strong Expansion...
Ormat Technologies reported a 19.6% rise in Q4 revenue to $276 million and a 12.5% increase for the full year, while GAAP net income slipped to $31.4 million in the quarter. The company’s energy‑storage segment more than doubled its revenue, and the...
Statkraft Reaches Milestone in the United Kingdom: Statkraft and Emsys VPPFfocus on Flexibility with 300-MW Battery Storage System “Thurrock”
Statkraft and Emsys VPP have successfully connected the 300‑MW Thurrock battery storage system to the UK grid, marking a major milestone for the partnership. The connection enables the virtual power plant to manage a gigawatt‑scale portfolio of Statkraft batteries across...
Nordex Achieves Record Figures in Q4/2025 - Share Jumps 19 Percent to Over €41
Nordex SE posted record Q4 2025 results, with order intake rising 9.2% to €3.2 billion and revenue up 16% to €2.5 billion. EBITDA surged to €307 million, delivering a 12.1% margin, while net profit jumped to €184 million. Full‑year 2025 figures also broke records,...
Europe’s Battery Markets on the Rise: Germany Leads, Romania and Bulgaria Emerging
Aurora Energy Research's BATMAR report shows European battery storage capacity surpassing 17 GW in 2024‑25. Forecasts project over 80 GW by 2030, with long‑duration (four‑hour) batteries receiving half of the anticipated €24 bn investment. Germany leads the market, followed by the United Kingdom...
Vestas Secures Mega Order: Vestas Receives 1.38-GW Offshore Order From RWE for UK Offshore Major Project Vanguard West - Share...
Vestas has secured a firm 1.38‑GW offshore wind order from RWE for the Vanguard West project in the UK, encompassing 92 V236‑15 MW turbines. The deal includes supply, transport, commissioning, a five‑year service agreement and subsequent long‑term O&M contract. The project,...
Alliance From Hamburg Sounds The Alarm: Reiche’s Grid Package Harms Germany As A Business Location And Threatens The Expansion Of...
More than 20 Hamburg‑based energy firms have urged the CDU to reject Federal Minister Katherina Reiche’s draft “grid package.” The proposal would end compensation for curtailed renewable installations and impose special rules on roughly 900 distribution‑grid operators, raising costs and...
8Energies, Enspired and Goldbeck Solar Present White Paper: How Storage Solutions Increase the Profitability of Solar Parks
A joint white paper by 8Energies, Enspired and Goldbeck Solar proposes co‑locating battery energy storage systems with photovoltaic parks to counter falling solar revenues. The paper shows that shared‑grid “cable pooling” can raise the internal rate of return by up...
Trina Storage Sets Benchmarks in the Battery Storage Market: Company Reaches 6 GWh in Europe and Strengthens Market Position with...
Trina Storage announced that its cumulative battery energy storage system (BESS) volume in Europe has reached 6 GWh, covering more than 65 large‑scale projects across 12 countries since December 2020. Flagship installations include sites in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Greece,...
British Nuclear Power Plant Hinkley Point C Faces Further Delays and Rising Costs - Nuclear Power Costs at Least 15...
EDF announced that the first unit of Hinkley Point C will now start operating in 2030, pushing the construction timeline to at least 13 years. Total project costs have risen to roughly £48 billion (about €55 billion), up from the original estimate. The...
Mercedes-Benz Advances E-Mobility Offensive for Commercial Vehicles with New eArocs 400
Mercedes‑Benz Trucks unveiled the eArocs 400, a battery‑electric construction truck equipped with a 414 kWh LFP pack and up to 240 km range, after completing winter tests down to –20 °C. The vehicle features a 380 kW continuous, 450 kW peak drivetrain, 400 kW CCS2 fast‑charging, and...
Record Year 2025 for Renewable Energy in Germany: Boom in Wind and Solar Tenders
Germany’s Federal Network Agency announced a record‑breaking 2025 renewable tender round, with 14,430 MW of on‑shore wind capacity tendered and 14,445 MW awarded, and ground‑mounted solar reaching 7,220 MW. The wind tenders were oversubscribed by more than 9,300 MW, while rooftop PV awards hit...
Stock Market Week 08/26: RENIXX Stable Above 1,200 Points - Year-to-Date Gain Climbs to 10.2% - Solaredge: Higher Revenue, Reduced...
The RENIXX renewable‑energy index stayed above the 1,200‑point psychological level last week, posting a 10.2% gain year‑to‑date. Weekly leaders were solar‑focused firms such as First Solar (+10.1%) and Solaredge (+7.2%), while Meridian Energy and others fell. Solaredge reported a 71%...
EVE Energy Drives Technological Leap in Large-Scale Storage: EVE Energy Launches World’s First Storage System with 628Ah Large Battery Cells...
Chinese battery maker EVE Energy commissioned the world’s first storage system built around its new 628 Ah ultra‑large lithium‑iron‑phosphate cells. The 200 MW, 400 MWh facility, comprising 80 five‑megawatt DC modules, demonstrates the technology at grid scale and marks a shift from research...
Terralayr Fully Acquires BBD and Strengthens Greenfield Battery Projects in Germany
Terralayr has completed the full acquisition of its partner BBD, consolidating development expertise and a pipeline of over 1 GW of utility‑scale battery projects in Germany. The deal adds to Terralayr’s existing 150 MW of operational or under‑construction storage and 200 MW ready...
British AR7 Renewable Energy Auction Secures 14.7 GW of Clean Power Capacity - Offshore, Onshore and Solar at Record Levels
The UK’s AR7 renewable auction awarded 14.7 GW of new capacity, split between 8.4 GW offshore wind, 1.3 GW onshore wind, a record 4.9 GW of solar, and 20 MW of tidal projects. Onshore wind contracts were priced at £72.24/MWh, roughly half the cost of...
KIT Reaches Milestone: Power Generation with Innovative Compressorless Hydrogen Gas Turbine - NASA Runtime Record Surpassed
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) set a new runtime record for a compressor‑less hydrogen gas turbine, operating for 303 seconds and surpassing NASA’s 250‑second benchmark. The turbine employs pressure‑gain combustion, eliminating the mechanical compressor that normally consumes...
PNE Group Boosts Power Marketing: PNE Reports Successful 2025 for Wattmate Platform
PNE AG’s digital power‑marketing platform Wattmate recorded a strong 2025 debut, marketing 80 wind, solar and battery storage projects totaling roughly 1.1 GW of capacity. The platform tackles growing market complexity by offering project‑specific, cross‑technology marketing and integrates power purchase agreements, system...
Scatec Joint Venture Launches First Project in South Africa: Lyra Energy Secures PPA for 255 MW Solar Project – Scatec...
Lyra Energy, a joint venture between Scatec ASA, Standard Bank and Stanlib, signed power purchase agreements with three corporate off‑takers for most of its inaugural 255 MW Thakadu solar project in South Africa. The plant will be built in two phases,...
Greenwind Launches Construction of Wind Farm With Vestas Turbines: Greenwind Acquires Wind Project in Brandenburg
The Berlin‑based Greenwind Group has acquired rights to develop four Vestas V150‑5.6 MW turbines in the Freudenberg wind farm, delivering a total capacity of 22.4 MW. All permits and a Federal Network Agency award are in place, and Green Wind Construction GmbH has...
Spain Invests €62 Million in Fund for Energy Transition Projects
Spain’s Regional Resilience Fund is injecting €62 million into the Qualitas Energy Credit Fund to boost financing for renewable‑energy and sustainable‑infrastructure projects. The capital, sourced from the EU’s NextGenerationEU programme and administered by the European Investment Fund, targets small and medium‑sized...
German E-Mobility on the Rise: Mercedes-Benz Trucks Expands with eActros to South America
Mercedes‑Benz Trucks handed over its first eActros 600 to Chilean carrier Empresas Cavalieri, marking the model’s debut outside Europe and the first series‑production electric long‑haul truck in South America. The vehicle will serve the Santiago‑Viña del Mar beverage route for Compañía...
BMW and Eon Cooperate on V2G: BMW and Eon Launch First Commercial Vehicle-to-Grid Offering in Germany
BMW Group and energy provider Eon have introduced Germany’s first commercial vehicle‑to‑grid (V2G) offering for private customers. The package includes a bidirectional Wallbox Professional, a dedicated V2G electricity tariff, and a smart meter, initially targeting BMW’s Neue Klasse models such...
Battery-Electric Vehicles on The Rise: VW Reaches Milestone of Five Million Electric Drivetrains
Volkswagen Group announced it has produced five million battery‑electric vehicle drivetrains, cementing its dominance in the German BEV market with a 42% share in 2025. The milestone includes the APP550 unit, which reached one million units at the Kassel plant...
Focus on Flexibility Markets and Battery Storage: Emsys VPP and Pure Energy Launch Joint Ancillary Services Marketing
Emsys VPP and Pure Energy are deepening a partnership that began in 2016 to jointly enter the ancillary services market. The collaboration will deploy Emsys VPP’s virtual power plant platform, allowing Pure Energy to market ancillary services in Germany for...
Sungrow Expands in Europe: Sungrow to Build Its First European Production Facility for Inverters and Battery Storage Systems in Poland
Sungrow announced a €230 million investment to build its first European production facility in Wałbrzych, Poland. The 65,400 m² plant will deliver up to 20 GW of inverters and 12.5 GWh of battery storage annually, with commissioning slated within twelve months. The project is...
Stock Market Week 06/26: RENIXX Declines - Enphase Jumps More Than 35 Percent - Ørsted: Strategic Realignment - Nordex Shares...
The RENIXX slipped 2.2% to 1,195.61 points, ending the week below the 1,200‑point threshold as volatility remains elevated. Enphase Energy surged 35.7% after its earnings beat 2026 revenue expectations despite a Q4 decline. Ørsted announced a €1.44 bn divestiture of its...
Thyssenkrupp Steel Secures 230 GWh of Green Power via PPAs and Advances the Decarbonization of Steel Production
Thyssenkrupp Steel has signed four new power purchase agreements delivering roughly 230 GWh of renewable electricity from wind and solar assets across Germany. The contracts, with Quadra Energy, Statkraft, Centrica Energy and Sunnic Lighthouse, will power subsidiaries such as Rasselstein, Precision...
Nordex Continues to Score: Nordex Secures January Orders Totaling 220 MW From GB, Turkey And Lithuania
Nordex Group announced January 2026 orders totaling 220 MW from Great Britain, Turkey and Lithuania. The British contract involves 14 N163/6.X turbines delivering over 90 MW, while Turkey receives 78 MW of turbines, marking the first use of the N175/6.X model there. Lithuania...