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Brookfield Moves to Complete Neoen Acquisition Efforts
for 2022. Additionally, Brookfield has secured a tender agreement with BpiFrance for its 4.36% stake in Neoen.
What are the implications of Brookfield's
Jan 3, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, neoen, Brookfield
EIB Backs Barbados Solar-Hydrogen Storage with Grants
through a mix of guarantees and investment grants. Developed by Hydrogene de France SA and involving French fuels distributor Rubis SCA, which acquired a 51%
Mar 3, 2025 // Storage, Solar to Fuel, North America, eib, Barbados
Dracula Technologies Raises €30 Million for Battery-Free IoT
France-based Dracula Technologies raised EUR 30 million (USD 34.9 million) in a Series A to scale production of its organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules for battery-free Internet of Things devices. The financing will be used to expand manufacturing capacity and accelerate commercialization as the company moves to meet rising demand for low-power energy harvesting solutions at scale across industries.Dracula plans to quadruple output of its OPV components, which power small electronic devices without batteries, positioning the firm to supply makers of sensors, trackers and other connected products seeking lower maintenance and sustainable power options. The company targets batteryless IoT deployments.
How will Dracula Technologies' €30M boost OPV scale for batteryless IoT markets?
Fund production scale-up: add automated roll-to-roll printing lines, inline quality control, and yield-optimization to multiply annual OPV output and cut unit cost per square centimeter.
Secure materials chain: long-term contracts for conductive inks and photoactive polymers, dual-sourcing of substrates, and in-house ink formulation to stabilize pricing and reduce lead times.
Productization for IoT: standardized OPV tile sizes, flexible form factors, and ultra-low-illumination performance tuned for 50–500 lux indoor environments common in buildings and warehouses.
Power electronics co-design: partnerships with PMIC vendors to integrate micro-watt MPPT, energy buffers, and cold-start circuitry, delivering reference designs that drop into BLE, Zigbee, and LoRa nodes.
Certification and reliability: budget for IEC/UL testing, indoor lifetime validation (humidity/thermal cycling), and recyclability documentation to ease enterprise procurement.
Manufacturing footprint: expand from pilot to semi-gigawatt-hour-equivalent area output, with regional assembly to serve EU and North American EMS partners and reduce logistics emissions.
Go-to-market acceleration: design-win programs with sensor OEMs, logistics tag makers, and building-management vendors; developer kits and APIs for power-aware firmware.
Vertical focus: smart buildings (occupancy, air quality), asset tracking (RTLS beacons), industrial condition monitoring, agri-sensing in greenhouses, and medical disposables where battery swaps are impractical.
Economics versus coin cells: lower total cost of ownership by eliminating battery replacement labor, hazardous waste handling, and downtime; predictable multi-year indoor energy harvesting.
Ecosystem alliances: alignment with EnOcean/Thread/BLE ecosystems, packaging OPV with ultra-low-power MCUs and radios to ship turnkey “energy-autonomous” modules.
IP and defensibility: expand patents on printed OPV architectures and encapsulation; potential licensing to contract manufacturers for faster regional scaling.
Workforce growth: hire process engineers, materials scientists, and field-app teams to shorten design-in cycles and support high-volume customers.
Sustainability edge: lifecycle assessments and take-back programs that help enterprise buyers meet Scope 3 targets and regulatory bans on primary cells in certain applications.
Risk mitigation: redundancy in suppliers, accelerated burn-in to weed out early failures, and firmware power budgets to ensure headroom under variable light conditions.
Timeline and milestones: move from current capacity to 4x output within 12–18 months, lock first multi-million-unit commitments, and launch second-gen modules optimized for ultra-low lux retail and healthcare settings.
Oct 27, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, France, Europe, Dracula Technologies
Globe's very first organic photovoltaic cell made from recycled polypropylene
exist at the Conference for Industrial Technologies IndTech 2022 in Grenoble, France, June 27-- 29, 2022. Amongst them, a lately finalized emphasize: the first
Jul 22, 2022 // Technology, organic photovoltaic cell, John Fahlteich, Vasileios Kyriazopoulos, FlexFunction2Sustain
2021 Best Year in History for Solar in the EU: Report
for residential systems, and also minimized VAT as well as revenue taxes.
France: France stays the EU's 5th biggest PV market. It installed an
Dec 27, 2021 // Market Research, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Europe, Netherlands, European Union, SolarPower Europ
Creating a more resource-efficient solar power industry
industry) project will validate circular solar service models in Belgium, France and Switzerland with five large-scale demonstrators in the residential,
Dec 12, 2019 // Technology, Europe, recycling, CIRCUSOL, PSS, PVMINDS
Europe To Come to be Globe's Secondly Largest Li-ion Battery Producer By 2025
in between the Member States has also been strong, with France as well as Germany and also others interacting to proceed Essential Projects
Mar 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Europe, EC Vice President, Energy Storage Europe, European Comission, Li-ion Battery Manufacture, Maroš Šefčovič
Unusual magnetic transition in perovskite oxide can help enhance spintronics
a team of researchers from China, Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Germany, France, and also USA, checked out the perovskite oxide PbFeO3, a substance that has
Mar 30, 2021 // Technology, Japan, Asia, perovskite, Masaki Azuma, Hena Das
Maxeon Q2 dogged by supply chain volatility as well as manufacturing facility closures
market we offer with especially considerable share development in Italy, France and the Netherlands," stated Chief Executive Officer Jeff Waters.
"We're
Aug 14, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Maxeon, covid-19, Jeff Waters
Terna to invest US$ 10.45 bn to improve Italy's grid, expanding cross-border connections
other projects include an interconnector between Sardinia, Tuscany and also France's Corsica, as well as a power line attaching Emilia-Romagna as well as
Mar 25, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Grids, Italy, Europe, grid congestion, Terna, Stefano Donnarumma
Shining Bright: India's Largest Floating Solar energy Plant
is internationally a major champ of solar power. India, along with France, started the International Solar Alliance in 2015. Up until now, 102 nations
May 2, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, India, Asia
Lightsource BP to Hire Hundreds for Global Solar Expansion
BP said on Monday it was setting up a new base in the south of France. It's additionally moving right into Taiwan, South Korea as well as New
May 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Lightsource BP, Nick Boyle
Renewable Energy Sector Defies Supply Chain Challenges to Hit a Record First-Half For New Investment
in the direction of their decarbonization goals at range. The United Kingdom, France as well as Germany are just a few of the countries that have increased their
Aug 24, 2022 // Market Research, UK, Europe
Solar-plus-storage grid parity sweeps through top EU markets
going forward in the Southern European state.
Spain jumps ahead while France, UK trail behind
According to Wood Mackenzie, the shift in economics
Aug 7, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Policy, ENERGY STORAGE, Spain, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Wood Mackenzie, Europe, solar-plus-storage, energy storage economics, solar economics, woodmac, stats, analysis
Why are prices rising in France’s utility-scale PV tenders?
about 40% of the projects are located outside the major regions of southern France. In less sunny regions, the cost per kWh is higher. “Cheap southern
Aug 8, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, France, Germany, Engie, tender, utility-scale PV, Europe, Total, Urbasolar, Xavier Daval, CRE, Enerparc










