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Nex tracker Expands the market for solar panel frame with the acquisition of Origami Solar, a roll-shaped manufacturer of steel frame, in an all-cash transaction of approximately $ 53 million. Credit: Nexpracker “Solar Panel Frame technology has been relatively unchanged for more than 45 years,” says SHUGAR, founder and CEO of Nexpracker. “During that time, the size and dynamic wind loads on solar panels have been dramatically increased, especially in following utility-scaly tracking applications. From a structural engineering perspective, the shift from aluminium to steel-forced-steel offers a greater strength of the important carbon intensity. Manufacture and delivering a real customer…
For years American Solar insiders have looked at cost forecasts missing the goal. Now new research confirms which trends in the industry have already been made clear by 2023: most 2050 projections for solar, wind and batteries were not even in the same margin. September 12, 2025 John Fitzgerald Weaver By PV Magazine USA Researchers have discovered that historical projections of costs for solar and energy storage consistently underestimated the pace of price decreases. In the study “Are we too pessimistic? Cost projections for photovoltaic solar energy, wind energy and batteries estimate the actual costs to overestimate worldwide””The authors reveal…
Kora has unveiled a home energy system that integrates a smart panel, batteries, inverter, app and virtual power plant platform. The company has financing of Moneta Ventures And Growth factory companies And is planning to start customer shipments in Q1 2026. In addition to offering circuit level operating element with the Smart panel, the Kora system will enable homeowners to sell electricity through wholesale markets via the VPP Kora Energy Trading of the company. The Kora app connects the entire stack, panel, inverter and batteries in one system that automatically shifts taxes to cheaper power, stores energy when the speeds…
Regulators in California have commissioned the best utilities of the state to offer dynamic electricity prices, which, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), said that the renewable limitation and lower costs will lower. September 12, 2025 William Driscoll By PV Magazine USA The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has ordered The three most important electric utilities of the State to develop and offer all customer classes requires the flexibility rates in which prices change at least hour in response to the changing wholesal costs of electricity and other factors. The new rates are expected to reduce the solar…
Trimark Associates has released True: SCADA, a re-devised control solution, specially designed for PV and BESS sources on Utility scale. “We are delighted to reveal True: SCADA, a game-changing monitoring control and data acquisition (SCADA) platform born of decades of expertise that implements more than 600 SCADA systems in the PV and storage projects of the battery storage,” said Mark Morosky, Ceo of CEO. True: SCADA supplies control, monitoring and data set-out mitigations that require PV and BES sources on utility scale to achieve accurate operational goals, to optimize performance and maximize the turnover. True: SCADA is designed for high…
In a new weekly update for PV -MagazineSolcast, a DNV company, reports that August 2025 marked one of the most productive months before the European PV this decade, in particular on the western half of the continent. September 12, 2025 Dissolved The majority of Europe enjoyed a strong month for PV production in August, with high-pressure weather patterns that produce dry, fixed conditions and consistent above-average radiation levels. The only exception was adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea, where elevated storm activity and the remains of hurricane tempered solar output. According to analysis using the Solcast APIAugust 2025 marked one of…
Honeywell has launched its Ionian Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with integrated controls and energy management. The system is designed to lower energy costs, to stabilize the grid and offer backup power. September 11, 2025 Uma Gupta By PV Magazine India Honeywell has introduced Honeywell IONIC, designed a compact, modular battery energy storage system (BESS) for the commercial and industrial segment. The system has a stand-alone lithium-ion battery housing, scalable from 250 kWh to 5 MWh. Honeywell IONIC integrates flexible battery storage with the company’s advanced control and energy management system. It is designed to lower energy costs, absorb demand…
An American research group has held a pilot workshop for stakeholders of Agrivoltaïss in Arizona, including farmers, developers, government officials and indigenous leaders. A reflection paper offers some important collection restaurants for future public participation. September 12, 2025 Lior Kahana The Semi-Arid Lab for research team of Scalable Agrivoltaics (Salsa) from the University of Arizona has held a pilot workshop on community involvement at Agrivoltaics. The team wrote a perspective paper about the Arizona-specific workshop and has described its organizational structure, shared some insights and mentioned important collection restaurants. “Due to the wide range of project scales, ownership structures, production…
Re+, the largest stock exchange of the American solar industry, and the first since the Trump administration is HR1, has packed this year. Although no official number has yet been released, Abigail Ross Hopper, CEO and President of the Solar Energy Industries Association, that the event had signed more than 35,000 present from Wednesday and broke its record for the number of exhibitors. So, despite policy changes that have caused a wave of high-profile closures and a significant reduction in the expected domestic project pipeline, the American solar industry was still published in Las Vegas this week. I wrote about…
This week, women in solar energy+ Europe give a voice to Fran Button, Deputy -CEO at British Solar Renewables (BSR). She says that mentoring and inspiring female leaders can help young women clearly visualize their own career path. “That visibility is of vital importance,” she says. “When I started, such paths were much less clear.” September 12, 2025 Women in solar energy+ Europe Our solar industry is relatively young and dynamic and brings together professionals with different backgrounds, including lawyers, engineers, accountants, building experts, designers and technicians, all connected by a shared passion for renewable energy. This creates a real…