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More than 8,000 people attended the recent Cleanpower 2025 Clean Energy event at the American Clean Power Association (ACP) in Phoenix, Arizona. May 23, 2025 Ryan Kennedy By PV Magazine USA The American Clean Power Association (ACP) held its annual CleanPower event in Phoenix, Arizona from 19 to 22 May 2025, with more than 8,000 members of the industry and 500 exhibitors in the Nutschal Clean Power Industry. Experts in solar, wind and energy storage met to close deals, share product updates and get the newest scoop about legal changes. PV Magazine USA The event attended and gained insight into…

Gridbeyond and ABB announce a strategic partnership to deliver ABB’s newly launched battery energy storage systems-as-a-service offering. This partnership, which follows ABB’s strategic investments in Gridbeyond in 2024, brings ABB’s deep domain expertise together with the intelligent energy management solutions from Gridbeyond to deliver a powerful, fully managed energy storage service to C&I customers worldwide. The AI-driven Platform of Gridbeyond will play a crucial role in optimizing the performance of ABB’s BESS-A-A-Service assets, making real-time energy optimization, demand-side response participation and access to new income flows on worldwide energy markets is possible. The service is designed to help companies reduce…

In a new weekly update for PV -MagazineOpis, a Dow Jones company, reports that pessimism in the global polysilicon market is deepened, powered by an persistent oversupply that exceeds the total monthly purchasing volumes of buyers. Various global polysilicon buyers have confirmed that maintaining substantial stocks, which has contributed to the current modest trading activity. May 23, 2025 Opis The Global Polysilicon Marker (GPM), the OPIS benchmark for Polysilicon produced outside of China, was rated this week at $ 19.233/kg or $ 0.040/W, which reflects a decrease of 0.76% of the Buy-Sell’s reported last week. Pessimism in the global Polysilicon…

By PV Magazine USA If lithium-ion battery fires are virtually impossible to prevent, containing thermal eliminated events is crucial. Battery Energy Storage System (Bess) supplier Viridi Recently, a live fire -demonstration organized to show how well -designed cell modules of fire forecast can prevent. “The real problem is not the thermal -running event,” said Jon Williams of Viridi PV Magazine USA. “It is the spread of a fire from one cell to the other. There you get catastrophe.” During the live demonstration part of the battery safety event of Viridi, held on 15 May in the 43 -hectare technology center…

An offshore solar farm is used close to an existing wind farm as part of a project in the Dutch North Sea. The developers recently installed an anchoring system that holds the solar farm in place, while an electric cable connects the array with a nearby wind turbine foundation. May 22, 2025 Patrick Jowett An anchoring system for an offshore solar project is installed on the site of an existing offshore wind farm. The installation formt is part of an ongoing project that will see a solar farm, supplied by Nederlands Solar Company Oceans of energydeployed on the Dutch coast…

Pexapark says that the number and volume of Structuur buying agreements (PPA) that were signed in April is largely in accordance with the month earlier, but for the first time in many years, Utility PPAs performed better than business agreements. May 23, 2025 Patrick Jowett European developers signed 22 PPAs a total of 1,446 MW in April, according to the latest report from the Swiss research agency Pexapark. Pexapark said that April managed to continue with ‘the momentum of relatively high volumes’, just a little behind the results of March. PPA volumes of utilities exceeded companies PPAs for the first…

The 42nd European photovoltaic solar energy conference and exhibition (EU PVSEC) is gaining strength, with the full conference program that is now available online, giving those present a first look at the groundbreaking sessions, inspiring keynotes and discussions at a high level that will take place in Bilbao of 22-26 September. With nearly 1,000 presentations alone in the scientific section, this year’s conference will continue to emphasize research and innovation in the entire PV chain, structured around five core subjects. ‘Previous in silicon materials and cells will remain central, such as the current (and still for a few years) market…

Scientists in Spain studied data on electricity -dependent demand for the KOBE refugee camp in Ethiopia to optimize various Minigrid scenarios, whereby the use of electric pressure cooking points was also integrated. Their analysis showed that the introduction of the stove required an increase in PV capacity of 68%. May 23, 2025 Lior Kahana Research led by scientists from the Spain’s Technical University of Madrid has investigated the integration of electric pressure cooking points (EPCs) in refugee camps driven by PV minigrides (PVMGs). With the help of the Homer Pro simulation software, the team demonstrated a case study of the…

The development of larger storage systems for battery energy (BESS) is booming in Italy, but the use of residential and commercial and industrial (C&I) equipment fell in 2024. May 23, 2025 Sergio Matalucci By ESS News Italy added more energy storage capacity in 2024, despite fewer installations, because a larger berry of the utility scale of more than 1 MWh dominated the market, according to a new report from an industrial group of Anie. The registration data of Raster operator Terna shows a decrease in the installations of residential and C&I battery, according to the Anie Division of National Business…

The recent discovery of inexplicable components in Danish energy equipment emphasizes the urgent need for stronger EU -Zonne -CyberSecurity rules, according to Solarpower Europe. May 23, 2025 Brian Publicover Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO of industrial group SolarPower Europe, has said that the recent discovery of inexplicable components in imported Danish energy equipment underlines the urgent need for stronger cyber security rules in the solar infrastructure of the European Union. “This is very worrying,” Hemetsberger told PV -Magazine In an e -mail, noted that the suspect elements were not Solar components. “It is important that an investigation is underway.” Her comments follow…