Nextpower agrees to acquire Germany's Zimmermann PV-Steel Group for up to €330 million ($377 million), adding four product lines & expanding into fifteen new countries. The deal more than doubles Nextpower's addressable solar market in Europe & brings over twenty gigawatts of deployed project experience across fifty-eight countries. Utility-scale solar is highly steel-intensive, consuming up to seven hundred thousand metric tons per five gigawatts of capacity, making this acquisition a major development for global fabricated steel demand.