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Panel by panel toward energy security in the EU

Solar cuts EU gas bill by €20 billion during Middle East war

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The bloc avoided billions of cubic metres of imported gas over 137 days, according to SolarPower Europe, with solar supplying a quarter of the EU's electricity in June, its largest single power source.

David Niehaus (right) is an expert in commercial storage

Huawei FusionSolar: Luterra S2 residential storage with AI control

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

Intelligent electrification, combining solar, battery storage and AI, sits at the heart of this vision for industrial flexibility.

Industrial flexibility: a €300 billion opportunity for Europe

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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.

Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, alongside Wopke Hoekstra and Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioners, at the press conference on the ETS review and energy package

EU Electrification Plan puts storage and grid reform in focus

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The European Commission's plan targets 46 percent electrification by 2040, with industry groups calling for stronger investment support and an end to double taxation of storage.

Florian Achatz (right) is the CEO of mounting specialists Novafixx

NovaFixx: making rooftop installation simpler and safer

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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.

Gerard Scheper, CEO of Netherlands-based European Solar

Beyond recovery: solar enters a new industrial chapter

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After a punishing downturn, Europe's solar market is finding its footing. European Solar’s Gerard Scheper argues the deeper change lies in the industrial and political reset now taking shape around it.

Gordon Gassmann (left) is Vice President of Gotion EMEA.

Gotion: grid-forming high-voltage storage

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PV Guided Tours: The new Grid Q storage system is a high-voltage solution with grid-forming features. In this video, we find out how the company is bringing local storage production to the European market.

Pricing in the residential battery segment was mixed in June

Battery Index – commercial demand picks up as prices ease

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sun.store data show pricing in the 60–120 kWh category falling sharply in June, driven by a shift in product mix rather than demand, even as commercial activity rebounded in the 20–30 kWh range.

Solar field, substation, containers: the anatomy of a hybrid PPA

Buyers chasing value, not price, in Europe's PPA market

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Corporate energy buyers are increasingly choosing hybrid PPAs for their settlement value rather than their price, even as LevelTen Energy's Q2 index shows solar prices recovering on gas-driven wholesale gains.

Future electric? Corporate fleets dominate new vehicle registrations in Europe

Corporate fleets lead EV uptake as costs near half

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A new study by Eurelectric and EY estimates that fleet electrification could unlock cumulative operating cost savings of up to €246 billion by 2030.

B3: one of the facilities behind LONGi's global solar and storage output

DHL turns to LONGi tech as solar partnership takes shape

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The two companies have signed an MoU covering BIPV deployment at DHL sites in Europe, joint solar-plus-storage development and expanded logistics support for LONGi's growing battery storage portfolio.

Self-consumption in Croatia is attractive in theory but cumbersome in practice

Croatia's energy regulator sets out self-consumption reform agenda

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HERA's new framework paper identifies the obstacles preventing citizens and businesses from generating their own electricity and sets deadlines for regulatory, technical and administrative fixes through 2027.

Johannes Klag (right) is the product manager for energy management and charging solutions at Hager Germany

Hager: in-building energy supply with storage and EV integration

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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?

Sonnen‘s commerical and agricultural storage is happy to work the night shift

PV Europe’s picks of the week – more solar storage

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Sonnen's new home storage tops out at 261 kWh, Solis reaches 40 kWh, DSW combines 2.5 MWh on a skid platform and Sigenergy adds AI-supported backup power to its home battery range.

Jan Himken (right) is partner manager at Bees & Bears

Bees & Bears: third-party financing and the installer opportunity

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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 hardware behind the headline figures

CATL's sodium-ion tech promises a longer life and wider range

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According to the world's largest battery maker, the system reaches up to 15,000 cycles at 25 degrees Celsius, and offers higher overcharge tolerance than comparable lithium-ion technology.

E-mobility is gaining ground in Europe and helping to avoid costly oil imports

EVs could cut Europe's oil imports by 190 million barrels a year

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Meeting EU deployment targets for electric cars, vans and trucks would cut oil imports worth around €12 billion a year, per new analysis by E-Mobility Europe and Ember.

Floating-PV is a trend in project business.

Solar Investors Guide #4 – Mounting on tricky terrain

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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.

LONGi's tandem cell record, certified by ESTI and projected accordingly

LONGi breaks 35.5 percent barrier for perovskite tandem cells

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Certified by ESTI in July 2026, the result is the latest in a rapid sequence of gains from LONGi's Central Research Institute, which has added more than 1.5 percentage points since mid-2024.