European renewable energy marketplace Solmeria has expanded its listings to Romania, adding solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects to a platform that already covers France and Italy.
The marketplace spans ground-mounted PV, agriPV, commercial and industrial (C&I) solar and BESS projects at all stages of development. It initially went live in July with 25 projects in France and added its first two Romanian listings earlier in October 2026.
Agrivoltaics with four-hour storage in Cluj
The first two Romanian offers are both agrivoltaic installations with four-hour storage systems located in Cluj county, in north-western Romania. Together they represent 6.2MW of solar capacity and a total BESS capacity of 6MW/24MWh. According to Solmeria, the listings have already received around ten expressions of interest from buyers.
The pipeline in Romania extends well beyond those first two assets. Maxime Courtaigne, CEO of Solmeria, said the Romanian listings now also include a ready-to-build hybrid park of 55MWp with 193MWh of storage.
Created at the request of developers, the Solmeria marketplace aims to bring liquidity to listed projects, accelerate transactions and reduce intermediation costs.
France and Italy momentum
The platform's French and Italian activity provides a benchmark for what Romania might expect. Courtaigne said 18 of the 25 French projects listed on the marketplace are now in sale discussions, and the marketplace opened in the Italian market in September 2026. There are more than 300 registered acquirers to date, the majority French and Italian, with dozens more joining every month. A 1MWp project in France drew 35 expressions of interest.
Commission on the platform is payable only upon successful completion of a sale and is significantly lower than that of a traditional mergers and acquisitions agency — a model designed to lower the cost of transferring development-stage and operational assets between developers, funds and infrastructure investors.
Why Romania matters for storage
Romania has been an active participant in the EU's push to pair renewables with flexibility. Its August nuclear outage, caused by drought reducing Danube River levels needed for turbine cooling, underscored how quickly a system can lose baseload capacity — and how valuable stored energy becomes in such moments. Hybrid solar-plus-storage projects of the kind listed on Solmeria, with four-hour batteries co-located behind a single grid connection, are one of the fastest ways to add both generation and dispatchable capacity to the Romanian grid.
For developers, the appeal of a marketplace is speed and transparency: instead of bilateral, opaque M&A processes, projects are listed, compared and bid on by a growing pool of registered buyers. For Romania, the arrival of such a platform is a signal that its project pipeline has reached the scale where secondary trading becomes viable.
Source: pv magazine / now.solar
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