Solar & Renewables Europe is an independent website that explains how solar plants are run and maintained, how the main renewable energy technologies work, and how the European solar market and its rules are developing.
What we cover
- Solar Energy: operations and maintenance of photovoltaic plants, monitoring, performance ratio, degradation, inverters, soiling and curtailment.
- Renewable Energy: storage, wind, green hydrogen, agrivoltaics, floating solar, power purchase agreements and the cost metrics used to compare technologies.
- Europe: solar capacity and policy in individual European countries, EU directives and strategies, and support schemes such as feed-in tariffs.
Independence
This site is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or paid by any energy company, installer, operations and maintenance provider, manufacturer, utility or government body, and it is not connected with any business that previously used this domain name. We do not offer services, quotes, jobs or products. Companies and products are named only where needed to explain how something works.
How we write
Articles are researched from primary sources such as the International Energy Agency, the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Eurostat, the European Commission, national energy agencies and research institutes, and they link to those sources so readers can check them. Everything here is general information, not technical, legal, financial or investment advice. If you spot an error, please tell us through the contact page.