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Finland’s Enico Oy and Ireland’s Eaton Corp have collaborated to develop an innovative easy-to-deploy battery system for minimization of houses’ footprint. xStorage Container is meant for industrial and commercial self consumption green energy projects.

Vision glass glass solar technology developed by the European market leader Solarwatt has successfully passed tests for cyclone resistance in Darwin – the capital city of Australian Northern Territory.

German Jurchen Technology proposes an innovative racking system for photovoltaic panels – PEG. The substructure requires less material than conventional mounting systems, simplifies installation and optimizes land-use.

A group of Danish researchers has discovered that introduction of manganese into a Na-ion battery’s cathode can improve its capacity and power.

The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy has started to pre-qualify developers for the first phase of the Noor PV II solar project.

A solar project billed as one of the largest in Canada’s history has changed hands this year, with a Toronto-headquartered infrastructure investor named as the new majority owner.

Many Arab countries, despite currently low to negligible renewable energy use, have set ambitious targets to increase their shares of renewables. Yet power-system planning is frequently constrained by cost implications and the lack of first-hand experience with renewables. Solar and wind power, particularly, present challenges for existing power systems due to resource variability.

Assurances against country-level risks are essential to make renewable energy investments bankable. Sovereign guarantees represent a government’s commitment to cover payments in case of default. Yet with this well-known instrument becoming harder to obtain, lesser-known risk mitigation alternatives can also be viable.

Large institutions such as investment banks, insurance companies, and pension funds are a vital source of capital for the transformation of the global energy system. Governments and the private sector need to work together to mobilise institutional capital for renewable energy investment.

Countries seeking to scale up renewables can draw on the bond market, including the growing range of securities dedicated to sustainable, environmentally beneficial, climate-safe project finance. Renewable energy has emerged as a major recipient of such green bond proceeds.

Solar developers will have a chance this spring to compete at a new renewable auction in Greece, the latest in a country aiming to take installed PV capacity near the 8GW mark by 2030.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s second-largest utility, Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS), is planning the $75.7 million project. The region’s first solar park will be built near Trebinje, in Republika Srpska.