Author: solarenergy

Tigo energy announced today that the Tigo GO battery is now eligible to participate in select Virtual Power Plant (VPP) programs across the country. The GO Battery has also been added to the EnergyHub And Overhead light distributed energy resource management platforms (DERM). The Tigo GO battery is fully compatible with the latest Tigo GO Optimized ESS and Tigo EI Residential Solution energy products in the US market. The Tigo GO battery is available in 5 kWh increments and expandable to a maximum of 30 kWh. The lightweight modules are stacked with plug-and-play wiring, reducing installation time, allowing owners to…

Silver hit a new all-time high of $117.66/oz and rose more than 40% in the past month and 275% in the past year, driven by dollar weakness, geopolitical tensions and gold’s strong momentum. Silver analyst Matthew Piggott explains pv magazine the metal could reach $130/oz in a few weeks. January 29, 2026 Emiliano Bellini The price of silver reached another record high today of $117.66 per ounce (oz). In the last three days alone, prices are up more than 8%, from $108.17/oz. “There are a few factors at play,” says Matthew Piggott, director of Gold & Silver at British market…

Investment manager Triple Point has acquired a 28MW solar PV project in Essex from a joint venture between London-based renewable energy platform IG Renewables and developer Anglo Renewables. The project received full planning approval in February 2025, covers approximately 26 hectares and includes environmental improvements aimed at delivering net benefits for biodiversity. A £25,000 community fund will also be set up to support local projects, the company said. Jonathan Hick, head of energy transition at Triple Point, said: “Securing ready-to-build sites, such as Toot Hill, with short-term connection dates, located close to centers with high energy demand, is part of…

Sungrow is launching its large-scale energy storage system, PowerTitan 3.0, in Europe, featuring networking capability, next-generation battery cells, DC coupling for co-located solar projects and streamlined commissioning to accelerate deployment. January 29, 2026 Marian Willuhn Sungrow introduces its large-scale energy storage system, PowerTitan 3.0to the European market. With the option to connect the battery to a central inverter on the DC side, the company is responding to the strong demand for co-located solar storage projects. The system was first presented at SNEC in Shanghai in June 2025 and has now been showcased to European developers at an event in Madrid.…

Construction has started on what Urbasolar says will be France’s largest rooftop solar installation, as the developer builds a 17.5 MW system on the Delta 3 multimodal logistics platform in northern France. The project is being developed in the Omega building on the Delta 3 platform in Dourges, in the Hauts-de-France region, near Lille. The logistics hub, run mainly by local authorities, has long planned to integrate rooftop solar and is partly occupied by PepsiCo, which employs around 450 people at the site. Following a tender concluded in 2024, French independent energy producer Urbasolar was selected to finance, design, supply,…

The Dutch startup, founded by former Tesla leaders, takes a new approach to sodium-ion battery technology and optimizes it for integration with solar power plants. The technology will be deployed for the first time later this year in a Dutch solar-plus-storage project. January 29, 2026 Marija Maisch By ESS news Amsterdam-based Moonwatt has developed a new type of battery storage system based on sodium-ion NFPP chemistry, purpose-built for seamless solar hybridization. The system integrates battery enclosures with hybrid string inverters, enabling efficient DC-coupled integration of solar and storage. The company gained attention in March 2025 when it raised $8.3 million…

The British government has opted to press ahead with a change in the way old subsidy payments account for inflation, a move that has been widely criticized by the solar industry.Trade body Solar Energy UK said it was “frustrated by the inadequate consultation period provided for such a significant policy change”, noting that the request for an extension “was ignored”.In December 2025, the government opened a consultation on moving the indexation of payments under the Renewables Obligation (RO) and Feed in Tariff (FiT) schemes from the Consumer Price Index (RPI) in favor of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It would…

AIKO has achieved a global industry milestone by becoming the world’s first back-contact (BC) module to receive explosion protection certification from TÜV SÜD with its 66-cell double-glazed ABC Stellar product.The certification not only validates the exceptional safety and high performance of the company’s ABC modules in extremely high-risk environments, but also provides critical technical support for the integration of PV systems in hazardous areas, such as oil and gas facilities, chemical plants and gas stations, which have long been restricted by strict safety regulations.The TÜV SÜD certification verifies that the modules will not act as an ignition source in flammable…

Envision Energy has unveiled what it describes as a fully integrated energy storage solution that combines hardware, software and market-facing capabilities, arguing that deep vertical integration is essential for the next phase of battery deployment as energy systems evolve towards an AI-powered energy system. The company says its approach goes beyond battery system sales, instead offering an end-to-end platform that includes cell innovation, power conversion, system controls, artificial intelligence and electricity trading, directly connecting physical assets to real-time intelligence and market decision making. The company’s storage portfolio includes battery cell technology, power conversion systems (PCS), medium-voltage substations, energy management systems…

Iberdrola has put the first Spanish batteries into large-scale use in Alarcón, while Spain’s battery pipeline is growing as major utilities develop new projects at negative electricity prices. January 29, 2026 Marija Maisch By ESS news Iberdrola España has put the first Spanish battery systems into large-scale operation in Alarcón, Cuenca. The Romeral and Olmedilla batteries, located next to the 50 MW Romeral and 50 MW Olmedilla photovoltaic power stations, each have a capacity of almost 30 MW and a storage capacity of 60 MWh. Construction of the batteries generated more than 100 jobs and involved several national suppliers, including…