Over two years on Lake Constance, Germany's Fraunhofer ISE found that fewer fungicides and quicker manual work more than make up for slightly lower apple yields, before counting the income from the solar modules.
Lightweight warehouse roofs, vehicles, noise barriers, greenhouses and indoor IoT devices could all become markets for perovskite solar. A new IDTechEx report looks at the decade ahead.
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.
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.
Investing in solar parks, expansive rooftop systems and cutting-edge battery storage requires patience and a genuinely long-term outlook. Such projects are generally designed to run for twenty years or more, making it crucial to safeguard them against a broad spectrum of risks over their lifespan – an important issue that is still too often neglected.
Commissioned by Fluence, the study finds flexible capacity from a battery costs $371 million over 25 years in Texas – under a third of the price of gas and a sixth of diesel.
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.
Global battery storage capacity is set to nearly triple by 2030, and operators are already drowning in alarms. Valentin Lorscheid of ACCURE explains how to get ahead of problems, and why independent data matters.
Around 720 projects with 9 GW of capacity are competing for grid connections worth around €2 billion in investment, but analysts are split on how much will actually be built.
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.
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.
As households add batteries, EVs and heat pumps to existing solar systems, the ability to mix brands is becoming a real concern. Jochen Schwill of SpotmyEnergy argues that systems must leave room to grow.
PV Guided Tours: In the utility segment, Huawei FusionSolar is focusing on two innovations this year: an inverter platform with 1,000 V AC technology, and the LUTERRA storage platform with exceptional power and capacity density. Let's take a closer look.
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.
As a rule, one to three percent of investment is allocated to operation and maintenance over 20 years, making solar parks low-maintenance assets with significantly lower costs than fossil or nuclear plants.
Why wait for a new build? Almost 40 percent of standalone PPA offers in Europe, and close to 60 percent for wind, now come from projects that are already generating.
With 406 GW of solar online and a few cloud platforms steering much of the fleet, Brussels advisers want tighter rules on where inverters and firmware come from, and who supplies them.
CEO Talk: The project business revolves around modules, inverters and mounting systems. Small components such as cable ties, connectors or protective conduits for wiring are often neglected. Sooner or later, such oversights will come back to haunt you. We find out why.
PV Guided Tours: With 690 W and an efficiency of 25.6%, AIKO Energy once again sets new benchmarks with its fourth-generation modules. In the video, we explore the technical details and outline future developments.
A new Smart Energy Expert Group report warns that intentional backdoors and insecure manufacturer platforms pose a serious threat to Europe's grid, and calls for binding supplier restrictions.
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.
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.
PV Guided Tours: Demands on mounting are rising, and manufacturers are responding with designs that meet rooftop regulations while still allowing rapid installation. Ludwig Maximilian Schletter of SL Rack demonstrates how it works.
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.
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.
