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Anker Solix has released an energy storage solution that is designed as a supplement to balcony -zonne installations, but the ability to scale shows that the company looks far beyond the balcony. The company has released a battery system of 3.6 kW that is supplied with 2,688 kWh storage and can add four more batteries, while using an entrance of up to eight solar panels. The unit has smart software for charging energy to maximize the financial benefit of the system, so that it can stimulate the efficiency of the system on the investment. The most interesting is that the…
By contributing author May 12, 2025 By Marc Lopata, PE | Solar Island Energy Much of my time at work includes helping people to understand how to improve their energy and financial performance with the help of microgrids. That is usually solar energy and batteries and energy efficiency. But sometimes we also integrate wind turbines, storage of ice energy, fly wheels, fuel cells and other bleeding edges. The overwhelming number of those projects are small island communities that burn diesel fuel to make electricity, and we move most of that diesel fuel with solar energy. Together with other practitioners we…
EDF Renewables’ Longfield Solar Energy Farm won 299 MW in the sixth round of the scheme. Image: EDF renewable energy sources. Changes in the contracts for the difference (CFD) schedule will replace the monetary budget that is applied to allocation rounds by a ‘capacity ambition’. The British government has announced reforms in the CFD mechanism that will come into force in the coming allocation round seven (AR7). It consulted various proposals at the beginning of this year. To adapt to the capacity goals set out in its Clean Power 2030 Action Plan (CP30), at least 12 GW must be protected…
The permitted site card for the 400 MW East Yorkshire Solar Farm by Boom Power. Image: Boom Power. The government has granted the planning permission for 400 MW East Yorkshire Solar Farm from Boom Power, a nationally important infrastructure project (NSIP). The development assignment order (DCO) was provided on 9 May in a letter signed by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s (Desnzs) head of energy infrastructure planning, David Wagstaff. Energie -Secretary Ed Miliband made the approval decision. It is the first DCO to be obtained by Boom Power, but the developer noted that the involvement of his…
The battery industry is based on a supply chain in China, and earlier headline numbers had painted a difficult picture for the affordability and bankability of the project. May 12, 2025 Tristan Rayner Image: Anastasios Antoniadis, Unsplash By ESS News The US and China have agreed to temporarily lower the rates on each other’s input, which stimulates the battery industry by the constant uncertainty. With the most range from China, the industry has received support, with the American Minister of Finance Scott Bessent that both countries would lower their mutual rates by 115%, after 90 days, after joint trade discussions…
In a new special, PV Magazine Brazil Reports on how rising Chinese demand, price volatility and the global technical race reform the Sun Market of Brazil, where large manufacturers weigh on supply shifts, prices and the prospects for storage. May 12, 2025 Alessandra Neris By PV Magazine Brazil Projections of the Brazilian association of photovoltaic solar energy (absolar) show that the installed solar capacity of Brazil will grow by 25% in 2025, with 13.2 GW on the grid, which brings the total to more than 64.7 GW. While the Brazilian PV market continues to expand, large module suppliers are confronted…
The Chinese rates of the Trump administration have piled up on existing and developing trade barriers in the field of storage systems, components and materials of battery energy and the destabilization of the American energy storage industry. Although existing stocks let project development continue in the short term, the uncertainty extends over the supply chain, including to potential manufacturers. May 12, 2025 Jonathan Gifford Great Kiskadee project in Texas Image: SK -Gasas By ESS News Rate Chaos reigns Supreme in the development of the American stationary battery energy storage industry. Confronted Extraordinary rates of 145% on the import of Bess…
Scientists in Qatar have sketched a new approach to optimize residential bifacial PV systems by combining eastern configurations-oriented and vertically mounted and vertically mounted eastern configurations. The new methodology reportedly results in an increase of 21.6% in the net present value of a system. May 12, 2025 Lior Kahana A research team led by scientists from Qatar’s University of Doha for science and technology investigated the optimization of bifacial PV panels in a residential setting, aimed at maximizing economic benefits based on charging profiles. “This research introduces an innovative approach to optimizing bifacial PV panels in residential environments by combining…
Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has announced that its 88 MW/352 MWH Chaparral Springs Battery Energy Storage System is now fully operational in Kern County, California. Designed to strengthen the reliability of the schedule and to deliver flexible, passable power, the Bess is part of a wider, multi-phase initiative that also includes a 174-MW solar facility developed, owned by and managed by LRE. With extra projects that will be online in the coming months, LRE is expanding his Californian portfolio to help meet the growing demand of the state for reliable, clean energy. Chaparral Springs Bess is a four-hour energy storage…
Solarpower Europe (SPE) has dropped Huawei as a member in the midst of an EU investigation into corruption, while the European Commission increases links with trade groups representing the Chinese technology giant. The decision marks the first such removal by the solar lobby based in Brussels. May 8, 2025 Brian Publicover Image: Guillaume Périgois, Unsplash Solarpower Europe has removed the Chinese Tech giant Huawei as a member, and is the first time that the Solar Industry Association, established in Brussels has taken such an action, has told a SPE spokesperson PV -Magazine. The board took the decision on April 28,…