ESS News reports that the permits from transmission operator Transelectrica cover projects in Caraș-Severin County and follow earlier approvals for Korkia's Alexandria portfolio. The new approvals bring the company's Romanian portfolio with secured grid permits to nearly 600 MW of solar and more than 550 MW of battery storage. The story matters because grid access is becoming the bottleneck for Central and Eastern Europe's solar-plus-storage buildout.
Source: ESS News. Solar News summarizes; the complete story is on the publisher's site.

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