specialized trade

After more than four decades, Udo Möhrstedt is passing the leadership of IBC Solar to his son, Julius Möhrstedt. During a visit to Bad Staffelstein, we spoke about lessons learned, future prospects and how the transition was prepared.

The International Electrification and Decarbonisation Week will bring together Genera and Matelec trade fairs at Ifema Madrid from 18 to 20 November 2025, hosting over 700 companies and 50,000 professionals.

PV Guided Tours: Industry and commerce are aiming to use every possible surface for solar power – from roofs to façades and car parks. IBC Solar is responding with streamlined, easy-to-adapt mounting systems. Product Manager Sebastian Geier presents the latest solutions.

BayWa r.e. Solar Trade is expanding its European commercial storage offering through a new distribution partnership with Western Heat Energy Solutions.

Installers in several European countries can now order the Solix X1 storage system directly through SegenSolar’s online portal.

The partnership strengthens Krannich Solar’s storage range with modular battery systems from Chinese manufacturer Sunwoda Energy, aimed at residential and commercial markets.

As it enters its second decade, PV wholesaler SegenSolar is kicking off the next chapter with strategic investment and a sharper focus on European markets.

At the 2025 Munich trade fair, the renewable energy developer showed off a confident, future-focused portfolio with updates to planning tools, storage and project services following its 2024 financing round.

Interview with Jan Paul Dahm, Managing Director of wholesaler EWS, on business in Northern Europe, expertise in residential storage and service for installers.

Specialist retailer BayWa r.e. Solar Trade is setting standards for emissions-free logistics. Suppliers, transportation, buildings, and packaging are all in focus, with significant sustainability successes already achieved.

The specialist retailer has raised approximately €435m to finance digitalization and business expansion. The funds will be released following discussions with shareholders and financing banks. Shareholder Baywa is outsourcing its shares to a private equity firm.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

SW Group has delivered into service four innovative triple deck 15m trailers for renewables distributor, Segen UK. The deal, which represents a £250,000 investment by SW Group, aims to improve cost efficiencies and contribute to a reduction in CO2 emissions of the transport of PV modules.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

BayWa r.e. Solar Trade and Seacon Logistics will develop a Netherlands based fully climate-neutral logistics centre with over 50,000 m² of storage capacity for photovoltaic components.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

EWS’ company site is once again bustling with activity: heavy equipment has arrived in Handewitt/Germany to complete what is now the seventh warehouse with adjacent warehouse office. Construction work in the Kätnerland business park began at the end of May 2024, with completion and move-in planned for November 2024.

The private solar markets started slowly this year, all over Europe. Now it is the hour of quality suppliers which offer complete packages in high quality. We want to know what are the advantages and what maybe are the pitfalls. Bertrand Chevalley of Solar Solutions gives his insights.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.

Krannich Solar is opening two new branches to further expand its global business. After recently opening branches in America and Asia, the focus is now on the Balkans. Krannich has opened its 30th branch there in Croatia, while the branch in Slovenia is number 31.

Video: Over the years, IBC Solar has established an extensive portfolio of products that craftsmen can use to build every imaginable solar system. In this context, the company is always at their partners’ side. What options installers have and what suppliers need to respond to, tells Sebastian Geier, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation Management at IBC Solar.

Video: The solar markets for private customers have cooled down somewhat. Now quality providers of complete packages are prevailing. Installers receive all components from a single source – compatible and tailor-made. Bertrand Chevalley, COO of Solar Solutions, explains what advantages this offers.