Bulgaria, which started 2023 with the biggest solar fleet in the Balkans at 2.2 GW, installed 785 MW in the first eight months of 2023, more than 2021 and 2022 put together – and before that, almost zero solar installations since 2012. There’s nothing special about that – Bulgaria is one of the dozen or so small European countries suddenly posting 100+ MW of annual solar installations per million citizens, with further acceleration to come. Nor is it unusual to see the first hundred-MW scale utility-scale farms built, or the government supporting rooftop with regulatory reform. What is interesting is the way cross-border power trades are organically incentivizing Bulgarian solar without much need for policy change. Bulgaria has long been…