'Europe's largest' solar power facility comes online as the industry faces coronavirus challenges

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This year could be a difficult one for the renewables sector.

as "Europe's largest," sent its first megawatt hour of energy to the grid earlier this week, a welcome bright spot for an industry that in the months ahead could experience difficulties brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

The plant is a collaboration between Iberdrola and Ecoenergías del Guadiana and construction work on the project finished in December last year.While the commissioning of Núñez de Balboa is an undoubted positive, the solar industry, like many in the renewable energy sector, is facing up to difficulties caused by COVID-19.

In a blog post toward the end of March, Abigail Ross-Hopper, the president and CEO of the U.S.-based Solar Energy Industries Association , wrote that the solar industry was "at risk."

 

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