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Commercial and industrial (C&I) renewable energy developer Greenvolt Next has completed a 2.2 MW ground-mounted PV installation in Dublin.The project, built for healthcare company Astellas, was completed in just four months, with the C&I developer carrying out the design, installation and commissioning of the ground-mounted PV plant. It will also handle operations and maintenance (O&M).The project is designed with the ability to accommodate additional inverters and install battery energy storage on site. The solar farm currently supplies 27% of Astellas’ electricity at the Damastown factory.According to the company, the project included sustainability measures such as large insect hotels built from…
Zendure has launched PowerHub, a new energy management system for homes and small commercial locations that integrates solar, battery storage, grid power, EV charging, heat pumps and smart home devices into one platform. The system supports storage capacity up to 150 kWh and three-phase PV input up to 43 kW, while the three-phase version enables electric vehicle charging up to 22 kW. May 12, 2026 Emiliano Bellini China-based Zendure this week unveiled a new energy management system (EMS) that can optimize the combined operation of residential PV power generation, battery storage, grid and backup power, as well as heat pumps,…
A research team in Italy developed a PVT-powered heat pump system for domestic hot water production, which combines latent heat storage in a packed bed with sensible thermal storage to better match supply and demand. Their simulations showed that hybrid storage combined with temperature-based routing significantly improves system efficiency, increases the heat pump coefficient of performance and increases the use of renewable energy. May 11, 2026 Emiliano Bellini Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Bari and the University of Padua in Italy have developed a photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) powered residential heat pump system for hot water (DHW) production based on a…
After months of searching for a president, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has named Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, to its leadership role. Tim Pawlenty, incoming CEO and president of SEIA. “I am honored to join SEIA at such a pivotal time for our nation’s energy future,” Pawlenty said in a press release. “The sun is the safest, most natural, and largest nuclear reactor on earth, providing an abundant energy source that we must fully utilize. That’s why solar energy is one of the most effective tools we have to meet rising energy demands while lowering…
Moroccan researchers say floating PV (FPV) installations on the country’s dams can simultaneously reduce evaporation losses and generate electricity, but the country lacks a regulatory framework to enable large-scale deployment. May 11, 2026 Brian Public According to a new floating PV (FPV) study, Morocco’s 58 controlled dams lose approximately 909 million cubic meters of water per year through evaporation over a total area of approximately 433 square kilometers. npj Clean energy by researchers from Abdelmalek Essaadi University and Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah (USMBA) in Morocco. The paper, “Techno-economic feasibility analysis of floating photovoltaic systems on 58 Moroccan dams: energy…
A record year and incredibly strong prospects for the energy storage sector. May 11, 2026 Tristan Rayner By ESS news The energy storage industry has reached the 100 GW era, with BloombergNEF’s Energy Storage Market Outlook for the first half of 2026 confirming that 112 GW will be installed by 2025. After tracking record installation numbers since 2014, the increase from 2024 was a full 48% increase, for the 112 GW figure and the 307 GWh of batteries added globally, according to BloombergNEF analysts. Global energy storage capacity has cumulatively reached 2.9 TW, a figure excluding pumped hydro. Another huge…
A geospatial assessment of Nigeria’s agrivoltaic potential finds the greatest opportunities in the country’s northern regions, with abundant agricultural lands, high solar radiation and low access to electricity. It calculated that meeting projected solar energy demand in Kano, Katsina and Jigawa states by mid-century could be achieved by installing agrivoltaics on less than 1.5% of cropland. May 11, 2026 Patrick Jowett Some of Nigeria’s most populous states could meet future solar energy demand by using less than 1% of existing cropland for agricultural voltaics, according to new research. Researchers from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Indiana University and…
Door Martin McConnell 11 mei 2026 Deze week verder Projecten wekelijksheeft de dichtstbevolkte provincie van Canada voor het eerst een batterijopslagproject, met dank aan PowerBank. In Arkansas hebben EDP Renewables en de door Mark Zuckerberg geleide technologiegigant Meta een stroomafnameovereenkomst getekend. Aan de oostkust heeft Aspen Power een zonne-energieportfolio op daken verworven in New Jersey, en in het westen installeert ESS Tech batterijen voor een zonne-energieproject in Central Valley in Californië. In de buurt breidt MN8 zijn EV-laadvoetafdruk uit in San Jose, en het nieuwste zonne- en opslagproject van Longroad Energy in Arizona is officieel online. Ten slotte heeft Solar…
The location value of energy must be better reflected in price signals, otherwise inefficiencies and costs in the system will continue to rise, says James Mills, managing director of British BESS investor Adaptogen Capital.In a recent one interview with Energy storage.news (subscription required), Mills discussed the company’s UK operations through its battery energy storage system (BESS) platform Varco Energy, European expansion, BESS capex and more. Varco has two large-scale operational projects in Great Britain: the Native river and Sizing John projects, both 2.4 hours per day, 57 MW/138 MWh systems near Liverpool. It is deploying other projects with a total…
Britain is among the markets identified by Aurora Energy Research as Europe’s most attractive for co-location investment.The analytics company today published its ‘European Co-location Markets Attractiveness Report’, which covers twenty regions. According to the report, Britain is the second most attractive for co-location investment, along with Bulgaria, as it has significant installed capacity and a Contracts for Difference (CfD)-backed pipeline that Aurora says helps offset grid connection delays. Bulgaria is tied with Britain because its market has strong subsidies, a robust pipeline and favorable economic conditions, while Germany’s market size and internal rate of return (IRR) potential make it number…