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CEO Talk: The utility business in Europe is growing and increasingly challenging. Solar fields now come with large batteries, and suppliers must meet standards for grid compliance, safety and security. How is the business changing and what strategy will ultimately succeed? Leon Zhang, President of LONGi Europe, shares his view.

Local clean energy projects backed by Great British Energy, the UK’s publicly owned clean energy company, will now have to source solar components from Solar Stewardship Initiative members or suppliers with equivalent ESG assurance.

Providers, growers and researchers will convene at Château Gassies on 13 and 14 October 2026 to share the latest findings on combining crop production with solar generation across European conditions.

Rezolv Energy has signed up to €561 million in loans from 14 lenders, anchored by the EIB, for a plant whose output would equal 36 percent of Romania's 2025 solar generation.

Two new analyses examine Europe's evolving PV landscape: SolarEdge maps five trends reshaping distributed solar, and a SolarPower Europe webinar explores how quality decisions define 30 years of asset value.

Growth of 182 communities in a single year has put the model on a decidedly firmer footing. The third national summit in Seville set its sights on the next stage, from new financing to more professional management.

PV Guided Tours: Huawei’s new Luterra S2 is an all-in-one residential storage unit, installed in minutes, with AI-driven control. The company has also upgraded its commercial storage to deliver more kilowatt-hours. Watch the video for the full picture.

A new prototype app from the Freiburg institute lets plumbing, heating and air-conditioning businesses plan heat pump installations virtually, on site and at the desk, whichever manufacturer’s equipment they use.

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.

IDTechEx expects cumulative installations to pass 10.5 TWh by 2037. Annual deployments more than tripled between 2023 and 2025, led by China and the US, while Europe scales up through UK and Italian frameworks.

The Hanover trade fair, running from 10 to 13 November 2026 alongside EuroTier, will focus on the self-consumption of solar power by agricultural businesses and on agri-PV, with pv Europe's video team on site to take a look.

Anchored by the European Investment Bank, Rezolv Energy's up to €561 million green loan clears the last financial hurdle for the Arad county plant, which is set to go online in the second half of 2028.

A joint webinar by K2 Systems and PV Europe sets out how installers can tackle the competing demands of speed, flexibility and plant protection when building large solar arrays on flat and green roofs. It is now available to watch free of charge.

PV Guided Tours: Gotion’s new Grid Q battery system can help stabilise the grid as well as store energy. In this video, we find out how the company is bringing local storage production to the European market.

A family home with a hipped roof now runs on an 8.7 kW solar system built around the Plenticore G3 M, with a battery, a wallbox and an electric vehicle set to follow.

PV Guided Tours: Energy management systems integrate not only solar installations and storage but also electric vehicles through bidirectional charging. How does it work, and which functions do such systems offer?

Eurelectric’s Power Barometer 2026 finds that clean electricity cushioned Europe from a fresh fossil-fuel shock this year, yet storage build-out is still falling well short of the pace needed to keep the system stable through 2030.

New alliances are forming in Europe to advance energy storage, with manufacturers of lithium cells for electric vehicles playing a key part. The investor newsletter will be published on 14 October 2026.

At the recent Laser Symposium Electromobility in Aachen, organiser Fraunhofer ILT and speakers from industry made the case for flexible lines and weld monitoring in markets where Asian scale offers less of an edge.

A handful of our articles now ask for a free newsletter sign-up before you can read them. It's a small step, and everything else stays exactly as it is.

Fragmented national approaches are blunting Europe’s flagship clean-tech industrial law, SolarPower Europe cautions, while deployment continues to outpace efforts to rebuild domestic supply chains

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 carmaker’s new offers for electric and plug-in hybrid drivers shift home charging to the hours that suit the grid, with one tied to a dynamic tariff from The Mobility House Energy.

SolarEdge's European chief explains why hyperscaler power demand and cybersecurity concerns around Chinese inverters are reshaping the company's strategy on the continent, alongside AI, US manufacturing and the new Nexis platform.

The IPV Conference will gather architects, planners and researchers at the Chamber of Commerce on 3 and 4 December to examine how photovoltaics can be integrated into buildings, infrastructure and vehicles.