Solarplaza Summit | Asset Management Europe

This opening keynote sets the strategic tone by examining how capital flows, investor confidence, and global policy direction are shaping the scale-up of PV, BESS, and other renewable technologies. It offers a high-level view of the financial and macroeconomic factors influencing investment decisions.

Delivered by a leading market analyst, this data-driven presentation provides a snapshot of global and regional financing trends across solar, storage, and hybrid renewable assets. It highlights how shifting deal structures, valuation metrics, and market conditions are influencing investor expectations and capital allocation heading into 2026.
 

While hybrid PV + BESS projects promise higher revenues, financiers and asset owners remain cautious. This session provides a reality check on how banks, equity investors, and asset managers assess hybrid revenue stacks and what it takes to turn optional upside into financeable cash flows.

As negative pricing becomes more frequent across European electricity markets, PPAs are evolving to better protect both buyers and sellers. This session explores innovative pricing structures, volume flexibility mechanisms, and market-specific approaches to managing wholesale price volatility and preserving project bankability.

Electrical components such as inverters, transformers, cabling, and wiring are often overlooked but can significantly impact the safety and performance of European solar assets. This session highlights common failure points, their impact on energy yields and uptime, and shares practical insights through a real-world case study.

This session moves beyond the hype to examine how AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics are transforming solar O&M across Europe. Through real-world use cases, it demonstrates how these tools are reducing site anomalies, enhancing energy yields, and enabling asset managers to make more informed operational decisions across diverse portfolios.

This session explores the evolving M&A landscape in the solar and BESS sectors as the market enters 2026. It examines key trends in valuations, deal structures, and strategic considerations for buyers and sellers amid regulatory change, technological development, and shifting capital flows.

Revenue from battery storage in Europe increasingly depends on intelligent market participation rather than capacity alone. This session explores how operators can optimise arbitrage, ancillary services, and real-time trading using forecasting, system responsiveness, and advanced energy management systems.

This session examines how asset managers can extract additional value from aging PV assets through targeted retrofits, component upgrades, and life-extension strategies. It explores how to prioritise reinvestment decisions, integrate upgrades into financial models, and manage rising O&M costs, supply constraints, and warranty gaps.