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Dr Harald Scherleitner, Chief of Sales and board member at Fronius International

"A reasonable price for European security" – Fronius CSO on Made-in-Europe rules

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Harald Scherleitner discusses Fronius's return to growth, the strategic case for building in Europe and why cybersecurity has become a defining purchasing criterion for inverters.

Queuing in London traffic, but at least it‘s not at £2 a litre

With diesel at £2 a litre, UK electric car sales hit a record

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Almost 100,000 electric cars were registered in September, according to New AutoMotive, but ministers are still weighing a softer 2030 target of as little as 50 percent.

The Elementa containers add 15 MW of battery power to the neighbouring 34.4 MW solar plant

Portugal – Castelo Branco park gets 60 MWh battery boost

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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 innovative modules come without glass

Peakup Power: stable lightweight modules for roofs with little to spare

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PV Guided Tours: Lightweight modules that offer a solution for load-restricted roofs. Or special technologies that enable durable and flexible solar modules without glass. Is this magic? Let’s find out.

Commissioning is handled through the CSS-OD local interface

Solaredge packs 107 kWh into new C&I storage

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Backup-ready and scalable to 2.1 MWh, the CSS-OD targets commercial and industrial users across Europe. It arrives alongside a wider rollout of Multirange to all European commercial inverters.

For utility customers, storage is no longer just a nice-to-have

Solar Investors Guide – New trends in PV projects

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Solar park construction is picking up pace worldwide, but the bottleneck is not materials or components. It is land, grid connection points and the people to do the work. Sign up for our investor newsletter to receive this digital edition directly.

Oliver Glenz (right) explains intelligent combiner boxes including insulation monitoring on string level

HIS Renewables: innovations in the DC field

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CEO Talk: Solar parks are growing in size, with cost pressure, construction timelines and availability all becoming tighter. How can projects be implemented faster, more cost-effectively and more reliably? What role do pre-assembled cabling, aluminium cables and smart combiner boxes play? Oliver Glenz, CSO of HIS Renewables, has all the answers.

IRENA’s latest flagship report sets out seven priorities for the decisive decade to 2035

IRENA: record renewables growth not enough to deliver the transition

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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.

Inside a Fronius testing centre, the kind of European production base that is set to benefit from stricter inverter regulation

European inverter makers face a cybersecurity reckoning

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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.

Clifden, County Galway – rural homes in the west of Ireland stand to gain from the new boiler scrappage top-up

Ireland – Budget 2027 and home energy, explained

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A new battery grant, fully funded systems for some households and record money for home upgrades: we break down the energy measures in Ireland’s €1.28 billion package.

Rooftop solar is cutting public energy costs and easing pressure on the regional budget

Croatia – Dalmatia’s public buildings gain nearly 1.2 MW of solar

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The Dalmatian Energy Agency (DEA) has put a further 800 kW out to tender, which will bring Split-Dalmatia county to around 2 MW of solar capacity by the end of the year. Battery storage and a green hydrogen hub are next.

Wanfei Qu (right) is Executive President at SKYWORTH Solar

SKYWORTH Solar: staying competitive through local value creation

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CEO Talk: As subsidies phase out, electricity prices turn negative and Europe reshapes its regulatory framework, the question now is who will remain competitive. We find out how SKYWORTH Solar is positioning itself for a new era in the European energy market.

The Bess Cube 2.0 has a usable capacity of around 800 kWh

Lynus bets on large-scale storage, made in Bavaria

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Around 800 kWh of usable capacity per unit, and as many units as a site needs – the new Bess Cube 2.0 is built for commercial and grid storage at scale.

New mounting technology is opening up even more areas for solar power

Solar Investors Guide – Innovations for mounting

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Energy crises and rising fossil and nuclear prices are making solar and battery storage more attractive than ever, driving demand across industrial rooftops, open land and car parks – find out more in the latest guide.

Hybrid systems are now standard in the majority of applications

Solax Power: new systems for residential and commercial buildings

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PV Guided Tours: The market expects complete and well-integrated systems that are intelligently managed and, increasingly, supported by AI. We find out what makes it possible to build smart energy systems of this kind.

EU leaders around the table, with energy prices again a top concern

Solar saves EU €40 billion in gas as leaders back the switch

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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.

Cells made in Europe: the signatories want wafers and polysilicon to follow

Europe’s solar sector urges EU to rebuild the PV value chain

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More than 75 module assemblers operate across the continent, against just one ingot-and-wafer project and one polysilicon producer. Now over 35 industry players want the Industrial Accelerator Act to fill the gaps.

A virtual power plant pools scattered assets and trades them as one

Lithuania – Ignitis gears up its batteries for grid balancing

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A new module from Oldenburg-based emsys VPP opens the way for the utility to offer its batteries as frequency reserves, twenty months after the Baltic states joined the continental European grid.

Every container here is talking, but is anyone listening?

Alert fatigue comes at a cost for battery operators

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As global battery storage grows towards 500–700 GWh by 2030, ACCURE’s Valentin Lorscheid argues that reactive operations and single-vendor monitoring are eroding returns, and explains how operators can get ahead.