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Tokyu Switches On Bite-Size Batteries Across Kanto
Tokyu Construction energizes 4‑MW battery storage in Kanto, slotting standardized blocks into tight urban sites to smooth peaks, backstop solar, and earn from arbitrage, ancillary services—and future capacity.
Dec 2, 2025 // Storage, Grids, Battery Storage, japan,, grid flexibility, Tokyu Construction, Kanto
Duke unveils 'future generation net metering', Maxeon bolsters leadership team
Duke Energy coordinate with market to bring 'next generation internet metering' to South Carolina. Maxeon includes in management group complying with Sunpower spin-off
Sep 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Sunrun, Duke Energy, North America, 8minute Solar Energy, Carolina, Maxeon Solar Technologies, generac
European Green Deal promises better products – and ecodesign shows the way to making it happen
The European Green Deal needs better and longer-lasting products, and that includes solar panels, says ECOS, the environmental NGO specialising in ecodesign and standardisation.
Dec 23, 2019 // Opinions, Europe, European Green Deal
New Enphase microinverter for high-power solar panels will begin shipping in November
Enphase Energy announced that the Enphase IQ 7A microinverter for high-power monofacial and bifacial solar modules will begin shipping to customers in North America in November 2019. The IQ 7A microinverter augments the lineup of seventh-generation Enphase microinverters with support for modules up to 450 W, targeting high-power residential and commercial solar applications.
Oct 28, 2019 // Inverters, Enphase Energy, microinverters, bifacial, solar modules, Badri Kothandaraman, Wayne Irwin, Jim Straeter, Carlos Martinez
Australian solar gives least expensive energy, sustains greatest frequency ancillary solutions payments
New research from Cornwall Insight reveals that grid-scale solar farms are paying 10% to 20% of the expense of offering regularity supplementary services to Australia's National Electricity Market, regardless of currently creating around 3% of energy in the system.
Aug 25, 2020 // Market Research, Australia, Cornwall Insight, Oceania, Ben Cerini
ESS, SB Energy to Deploy 2 GWh Long-Duration Storage in United States
The very first ESS system has actually already been provided to an SB Energy place in Davis, California, and also will be appointed in October 2021. SB Energy intends to mount added ESS flow battery systems to match its increasing portfolio of solar power projects in Texas and California.
Oct 11, 2021 // Storage, USA, North America, sb energy, Eric Dresselhuys, SoftBank Group Corp, Carmichael Roberts, ESS, Rich Hossfeld
PV to drive renewables investing growth in 2021 however complete investment far from net no path-- IEA
Renewables are readied to make up 70% of international financial investment in new power generation capacity this year with solar PV leading the development, but investing on clean energy have to increase much more swiftly if the world is to fulfill its environment objectives.
Jun 2, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, solar finance, IEA, energy transition, solar investment, covid-19 recovery, International Energy Agency
The future of solar PPAs in Turkey
Both the existing standing, as well as the future of, solar PPAs in the Turkish market as a vital device for raising PV capacity has actually ended up being a commonly gone over subject. This is specifically because of the fact that after mid-2021, the future of YEKDEM (Turkey's neighborhood FIT routine) doubts. The motivations could be less than expected, or perhaps inaccessible for some innovations. This has actually elevated the question of alternative financing devices relative to brand-new investments.
Sep 23, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Opinions, PPA, Asia, Turkey
Japan Tempers Perovskite Hopes, Plays the Long Game
Japan cools perovskite hype, prioritizing durable, scalable gains as cheap silicon dominates; roadmap shifts to niche wins, cost cuts, and manufacturing know‑how through the 2030s.
Nov 25, 2025 // Technology, Japan, Asia, perovskite
Jan de Nul, DEME, Tractebel launch offshore PV project
Seavolt is a floating solar array that can hold up against harsh conditions according to the trio
Mar 8, 2023 // Technology, Floating PV, Tractebel, DEME, Jan de Nul
Auction winner: Interconnection constraints limiting big solar in Japan
Rising interconnection costs and constraints are impacting Japan’s ability to contract large-scale solar capacity, according to a project winner in the country’s latest PV auction.
Jan 29, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Japan, FiT, utilities, Asia, auction, interconnection, METI, curtailment, energy transition, Constant Energy, ciel & terre international, franck constant, Eva Pauly
Pivot Power begins at 50MW UK storage space
The lithium-ion battery project will certainly store enough electricity to power over 100,000 homes for two hours
Dec 7, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Pivot Power, Matt Allen, Steve Melia
Sunrun includes 30,000 customers, 213MW of solar in Q1 2022 as it seeks to protect itself versus United States headwinds
Leading United States solar installer Sunrun added 29,463 customers in Q1 2022, a 20% get on the exact same period last year, with monitoring now anticipating mounted solar capacity to be 25% or better for the full year 2022, up from the previously forecast 20%.
May 5, 2022 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, USA, Sunrun, financial results, North America, AD/CVD, customer acquisition
Key 2020 United States Solar PV Cost Trends and also a Look Ahead
Project sizes are boosting, larger-format modules are leading of mind, as well as locating brand-new price performances is a priority for companies across all market segments.
Dec 18, 2020 // Tariffs, Market Research, USA, Wood Mackenzie, North America
‘Energy storage is not enough, a renewables grid needs flexible gas back-up’
The managing director of London-based energy infrastructure company Statera has told pv magazine a clean energy grid in the U.K. will require as much flexible gas plant capacity as battery storage.
Sep 1, 2019 // Plants, Storage, Grids, storage, UK, Europe, flexible gas plant, Statera, Tom Vernon