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.

The bank is taking a minority stake of up to US$221 million in the Norwegian developer’s investment vehicle, which is lining up 2.7 GW of solar and 900 MW of wind in Egypt, with more projects planned across the southern and eastern Mediterranean.

Households are stacking solar, batteries, EVs and heat pumps from different brands, only to find the devices can’t communicate with each other. Jochen Schwill of SpotmyEnergy argues that compatibility should become a defining measure of quality.

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.

The Hoyultra 2000M stores up to 2.61 MWh in a single cabinet and switches to backup power in under 20 ms, with Hoymiles promising installation in less than a quarter of the usual time.

Seven months into the Middle East war, the solar industry is pushing an emergency package of rooftop solar and large-scale batteries to make those savings last, and EU leaders appear to be listening.

While solar and wind are being built faster than ever, grids, storage and efficiency are falling behind as demand rises. In its new outlook, IRENA says electrification and wider reform are now key to getting back on a 1.5°C pathway.

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.

Why wait for a new build? Almost 40 percent of standalone PPA offers in Europe, and close to 60 percent for wind, now come from projects that are already generating.

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.