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Solardaily Exclusive: A small contractor forces CPUC to blink at 150% storage rule On August 13 at exactly 16.38 hours, Southern California Edison (SCE) pressed an e -mail on an e -mail that landed as a hammerlag in the solar industry in California. The subject was clinical: “Suspension of the paired storage 150% rule proceeds on August 15, 2025.” The reality was much stricter: within 48 hours, contractors would be rejected again by an outdated CPUC regulation that limited storage capacity up to 150% of paired solar energy. The reaction was fast – but not from a large trade group…

Developer of Renewable Energie Baywa Re has announced that it has protected a building permit for its flagship Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project in Scotland.Section 36 Planning Stamping has been awarded for Redshaw Bess of Baywa Re, located in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, after the company has submitted a planning application for the project in March of this year. The developer states that to date this is the largest Bess project in Europe.The Redshaw Bess will be built next to the planned 400/132kv Redshaw substation of Scottish Power Transmission. The project is located on the B6 limit, the developer notes…

Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) has developed a new reactive plasma deposition (RPD) method to form Ultradunne Tinoxide-Electrone Transport layers (ETL) for perovskite solar cells. It claims that this enables mass production with a low temperature with minimal substrate damage. August 22, 2025 Brian Publicover Sumitomo Heavy Industries has developed a new deposition technology for ultra -thin electron transport layers, an important part of the next generation of perovskiet solar cells. The company established in Tokyo said this week in a press release that uses the cost-effective material method and a low-impact process, in which important barriers are tackled for scaling…

Lithium ion battery maker Energy Renaissance went into the administration in Australia after an important investor has withdrawn from a planned financing round, leaving the company in a cash crisis. August 22, 2025 EV Foley Image: Energy Renaissance By PV Magazine Australia Australian lithium -battery producer Energy Renaissance went into liquidation, only a few months after celebrating a decade in business. The company, which makes a high energy density, air-cooled lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery energy storage systems, has also recently launched a new cyber security battery designed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSiro) And built by…

Bess Developer-Operator Field has brought a 2-hour Bess in commercial operation north of the heavily limited B4 transmission boundary in Scotland.The Aucheraw Battery Energy Storage System (Bess) near Fort Augustus is the fourth and largest for Field, announcing this week (August 20) and his first in Scotland.The project will offer flexibility services to the schedule and tackle ‘significant limitation costs’ in the region, said it.Thanks to the location north of the B4 transmission limit over the Scottish central belt. There are huge amounts of wind energy north of the border, most of which have to go to requirements in the…

The new market for energy storage from China reached a milestone in the first half of 2025, according to a new report from CNESA, earlier this week released at the Western Energy Storage Forum in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. CNESA said that the total energy storage fleet of China was at 164.3 GW Eind-June, an increase of 59% year after year, while cumulative storage of new energy-pre-bodied Lithium-ion battery storage systems for Batterijen-Vooren first surpassed 100 GW compared to 101.3 GW reached last year) Source link

Scientists have made a sunshine dryer for slices of Mango, with PV-driven forced convection. They place Mango slices of different thicknesses in it, they have measured the operation of their device against two reference methods and have discovered that thermal efficiency achieved 30%. August 22, 2025 Lior Kahana A research group led by scientists from Matttu University in Ethiopia has developed and analyzed a solar cabinet dryer for mangoblaks, with PV-driven forced convection. To tackle the poor thermal efficiency of previously reported cupboards, the team has included rectangular Scots in the setup. “Built using locally available materials, the dryer in…

Van Schneider Electric is expected to merge the Wattbuy with EnergySage and Qmerit to offer an end-to-end experience for residential solar Zonne-Zon, EV integration, house electrification and related services. August 22, 2025 Ryan Kennedy Image: Schneider Electric By PV Magazine USA Schneider Electric, a worldwide energy management company, said that the Wattbuy has taken over, a software company that offers personalized home energy insights and electrification solutions. Schneider Electric will merge Wattbuy with his subsidiaries EnergySage and Qmerit to expand the electrification and energy storage services from the home. Together, the companies want to provide an end-to-end customer experience for…

The Fraunhofer ISE has defined new technical procedures to test the performance of large Perovskiet-Silicon Tandem PV modules using the spectral variability of the LED sun simulator. The proposed approach is said to reduce the handling, time and therefore financial efforts of devices. August 22, 2025 Emiliano Bellini Researchers from the German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer Ise) have developed a new one Procedure for the precise and traceable spectral adjustment of LED-based solar simulators for measurements of large perovskiet-silicon tandem solar modules. “We showed, For the first time, a complete calibration of perovskite with a large area…

The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSSB) has approved the maximum 220 MW Eastern Cotton Solar Solar project for construction. The project developed by EDF Power Solutionsreceived his certificate of environmental compatibility and public needs and will be in Walnut Township in Fairfield County, Ohio. “We are very happy to see that the Eastern Cottontail Solar Project will continue with the approval of today,” said Nick Lucania, main developer of the Eastern Cottontail Solar Project. “This milestone is the result of years of involvement in the Fairfield County community, farmers and landowners and local officials to tune the project to community…