State-owned Swedish power and heat provider Vattenfall will invest €100m ($123m) in European solar schemes over the next two years, including utility-scale projects where infrastructure can be reused to save costs and co-locating solar on existing wind farms. Vattenfall trialled a two MW ground-mount solar farm at its Parc Cynog wind project in Wales for 18 months. In 2017 Vattenfall said the pilot scheme had been successful, leading the company to look into building more hybrid wind and solar farms.
State-owned Swedish power and heat provider Vattenfall will invest €100m ($123m) in European solar schemes over the next two years, including utility-scale projects where infrastructure can be reused to save costs and co-locating solar on existing wind farms. Vattenfall trialled a 5 MW ground-mount solar farm at its Parc Cynog wind project in Wales for 18 months. In 2017 Vattenfall said the pilot scheme had been successful, leading the company to look into building more hybrid wind and solar farms.