Solar Investors Guide podcast: Trends and opportunities for investors

In discussions with leading experts, the PV Europe editorial team analyses the opportunities and pitfalls of the solar market for investors. We explain and elucidate investment and refinancing of solar projects - listen in!

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© Paul Langrock/private

Solar Investors Guide #5: Prospects and pitfalls for investments in solar and large battery projects

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Podcast: Investing in solar is particularly attractive when module prices are low, as they are right now. But that could be about to change. Also on the move is the battery storage market. It is currently very attractive, especially for investments in large storage systems. But this window of opportunity may soon be closing. We spoke to Dutch market analyst Gerard Scheper about when this might happen, why, and who the key players are.
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© ESS/private

Solar Investors Guide #4: Long-term storage with iron flow technology

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Podcast: Energy Center is an iron flow storage system from ESS Inc., a company located in Oregon in the United States. The storage device offers 1.16 megawatt hours of storage capacity and a maximum charging capacity of 174 kilowatts. This modular solution comes completely in a container and can be adapted to many commercial and network applications. Alan Greenshields is Director EMEA of ESS. He talks about long-term storage systems and the prospect of redox flow technlogy with sustainable materials – iron, salt and water.