Clou Electronics and Midea Energy have developed a C&I storage unit for Europe that combines 314 Ah cells with pack and cell-level cooling and up to 90 percent efficiency.

The era of petrol and diesel dominance is drawing to a close. Mobility is transitioning to electric, with millions of private electric cars, company fleets, and commercial vehicles creating new demands on the energy supply. Filling stations, parking garages, and parking lots now represent opportunities to provide EVs with solar power.

PV Guided Tours: Speed and simple handling are what installers demand of rooftop mounting. With versatile substructures and just a handful of tools, modules can go onto virtually any roof in record time. Sounds too good to be true? Watch the video.

Lightweight warehouse roofs, vehicles, noise barriers, greenhouses and indoor IoT devices could all become markets for perovskite solar. A new IDTechEx report looks at the decade ahead.

Ukrainians have lived with Russia’s full-scale invasion for years. Since September, attacks have grown more frequent and more brutal. With winter approaching, help is needed more than ever.

Bids open on 29 October in the first Irish auction with a separate pot for solar, new EU rules on how bids are scored and extra points for battery storage.

Trina Storage has commissioned its first battery storage project in the Portuguese market. Developed with independent power producer Prosolia Energy, the 15 MW/60 MWh system in the Centro region is paired with an existing solar plant.

CEO Talk: instalment purchasing made easy. With solid partners behind them, installers can offer customers loans for their solar setup alongside the build itself. What does this mean for installers? More work or more orders? Watch to find out.

A new whitepaper finds industrial flexibility could cut EU renewables curtailment by 61 percent and avoid 60 GW of peak capacity, while opening new revenue streams for energy-intensive sectors.

Europe's grid queues hold 1,700 GW of stalled projects. Sharing connections between wind and PV could ease the bottleneck, but regulation, permitting and grid operators keep hybrid parks a rarity, explains Philipp Rasche of ENEO.

From shared connection points to AI-driven trading: two very different perspectives on Europe's grid capacity problem, and how developers and operators can make better use of existing grid capacity, cut curtailment losses and lift returns on renewable assets.

With 406 GW of solar online and a few cloud platforms steering much of the fleet, Brussels advisers want tighter rules on where inverters and firmware come from, and who supplies them.

A new Smart Energy Expert Group report warns that intentional backdoors and insecure manufacturer platforms pose a serious threat to Europe's grid, and calls for binding supplier restrictions.

Roofs and flat open spaces aren't the only options for solar power. Applications that pose particular challenges for project planning and installation technology are increasingly coming into focus.

Trina sends out the installation and cleaning robots, while Lynus, Solaredge and Sunenergy XT bring new battery storage to market, from an 800 kWh cube to a retrofit battery that skips the inverter swap.