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The Saracen Sands Hotel & Conference Centre near Palermo has installed a solar carport and battery system it expects will slash €500,000 a year off its energy costs.

Warehousing and nationwide 48-to-72-hour delivery are helping one newcomer expand well beyond rooftop panels, with a hotel project the latest example of a local-delivery approach in practice.

As REPowerEU stalls with 82 percent of funding unspent, industry and security experts are urging Berlin and Brussels to treat energy efficiency as a strategic security resource on par with diversified supply and reserves.

Experts are calling for energy efficiency to be embedded in industrial, security and defence policy, warning that Germany's dependence on fossil fuel imports has long been a structural security risk.

Portfolio One brings LONGi‘s modules and in-house 5S storage under a single architecture, tailored to utility-scale, commercial and off-grid use, with the cloud-based Oneos platform handling control and virtual power plant functions.

The annual conference at the Greek capital now begins a day later, running Wednesday and Thursday at the InterContinental Athens, with a number of key industry speakers already confirmed.

As the EU tightens cyber rules for networked inverters, manufacturers must navigate both a new compliance burden and a chance to make "made in Europe" count for more.

Automated EU shipping, trade credit with Allianz and Alior Bank, and 8,000 orders so far this year: Agata Krawiec-Rokita on how fragmentation is opening doors for smaller distributors and installers.

The technology works, users are convinced and money is moving, but without stronger grid links and clearer political backing, the industry warns the rollout risks stalling.

German manufacturer SMA's new €80 million plant in Niestetal near Kassel will produce inverters, storage systems and energy management technology for large-scale solar, storage and data-centre projects.

The national solar association has welcomed the government's plan to link data centres to the expansion of renewable energy, but argues the draft regulation is too rigid and could hold back investment in both solar and data centres.

Solar and battery storage projects are only as insurable and bankable as the decisions taken long before financial close, argues the CEO and founder of Solarif Group. Effective De-Risking starts at the drawing board, not at the signing table.

The new line targets CO₂ savings and material efficiency in electrical installation, and is aimed at electrical trades, planners and installation companies.

Solar Macedonia will host its 5th Annual Solar Conference on 23 and 24 September 2026, marking the association's 20th anniversary. The two-day event is expected to draw engineers, investors, designers, installers and traders from across the Balkan region and beyond.

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Market research firm IDTechEx forecasts Li-ion demand for electric vehicles reaching 4,500 GWh by 2036, as advances in battery management software and hardware help push battery fire rates down even as pack capacity grows.

A decade after taking over a former Bosch and Johanna Solar site in Brandenburg an der Havel, Oxford PV is shipping perovskite-silicon tandem modules worldwide, marking ten years of commercial production with ambitious plans ahead.

The energy trade fair in Madrid is inviting research institutions and exhibitors to submit technologically mature, market-ready developments for its 2026 showcase, with applications closing on 16 October.

A new report from ACCURE Battery Intelligence finds a two percent shortfall in battery storage revenue can cut a project's debt service coverage ratio and shave a point off investor returns.

Utility Elektroprivreda BiH is investing 53 million convertible marks in two solar plants with a combined capacity of 50 MW on reclaimed coal-mine land, its first major PV project.

A new partnership between OIEH and AIAS aims to accelerate agrivoltaics deployment through shared expertise, joint conferences and coordinated proposals on regulation, drawing on Italy's established track record in the sector.

The Finnish company's new cloud-based platform lets utilities, grid operators and asset managers remotely control, aggregate and dispatch scattered solar installations as though they were a single plant.

Polish developer ELQ and its Ukrainian subsidiary have signed a memorandum with Ukrainian authorities to advance renewable energy projects within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, covering solar, storage, wind and hydrogen.

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.

The EU's plan to end reliance on Russian energy has lost momentum, auditors warn, with member states earmarking just 54.3 billion euros of the 300 billion euros needed to meet its targets.