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The European market for battery storage systems is growing rapidly; solar home storage systems have dominated until now. But now there is a change. Large batteries are gaining ground - but are still being held back by regulatory hurdles.
By using the control box from Neue Energie Steinfurt, the green electricity plants and storage units can be integrated into the virtual power plant more quickly. This provides the electricity market with more flexibility.
Trinasolar has obtained Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Norway and EPD International certification for its Vertex S+ rooftop module series. Both validations were carried out by TÜV Rheinland.
Until now, hydrogen has been produced from fossil resources or with the help of electrolysis. But what potential do biogenic residues offer? This is what the BiReMiH2 project of the HY2.ZERO network in southern Germany is investigating.
The new plant is combined with an existing wind farm. The ground conditions and the existing monument protection did not make the realisation of the project any easier.
DLG, photovoltaik and pv Europe bring the solar industry and agriculture together: Get into direct dialogue with farmers and develop specific projects together. For the first time, Energy Decentral offers a forum for the solar offensive in agriculture.
Delta and Sunrock have commissioned the innovative Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Dorsten, Germany, complementing a photovoltaic system to provide continuous fossil-free energy, advancing the project’s sustainability strategy.
DLG, phoptovoltaik and pv Europe bring the solar industry and agriculture together: Get into direct dialogue with farmers and develop specific projects together. For the first time, Energy Decentral offers a forum for the solar offensive in agriculture.
For this year's EES Award, the jury has once again selected ten clever new solutions to compete against each other for the coveted prize in the final. They include very different systems from large to small.
Just under a year after the opening of Reiling's first recycling plant for solar modules, two technological breakthroughs have been achieved. Firstly, the quality of the recovered solar glass has been significantly improved. In addition, the recovery of silicon has been realised on an industrial scale.
The systems are being built at several of the automotive group's sites. The electricity is to be used for production and other internal processes. In this way, the car manufacturer intends to realise its sustainable business strategy.
Roadshow will have stops across Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Romania and Czechia presenting a 4-hour training session and a chance for networking at each stop.
A new housing estate in the municipality of Kressbronn on Lake Constance in Germany generates ground-level geothermal energy for the community. Find out more about this in July at the Sectors4Energy conference in Cologne.
The German module manufacturer Bauer Solar has increased the output range of its recently launched Pure and Black bifacial glass-glass modules by ten watts. Both series now achieve a module output of 445 watts with an efficiency of 22.3, thanks to N-type Topcon cells.
Commercial storage manufacturer Tesvolt has started construction of a new large-scale factory at its headquarters in Wittenberg, eastern Germany. With a planned production capacity of four gigawatt hours per year, it will be one of the largest facilities for stationary battery storage systems in Europe.
The new Berching-Altmannsdorf solar park will feed solar power into the grid of the Berching community wind farm. As with the wind farm, the citizens are once again involved.
Several tall rows of modules are installed on a field on the farm in Deutenkofen. The aim is to test the influence of the modules on the growth of apple and pear trees.
The Sectors4Energy conference presents solutions for successful sector coupling. This is the only way to stabilise the energy system of the future. The sectors will meet in Cologne in Germany at the beginning of July 2024.
The solar industry is still waiting for Solar Package I. Several manufacturers have repeatedly called for resilience bonuses, i.e. additional remuneration for domestic components in the construction of solar power plants. Module manufacturer Meyer Burger is now drawing the consequences and announcing the closure of its Freiberg plant at the end of April.
Solar modules for integration into vehicles: Opes Solar Mobility is building a new factory for this purpose in Zwenkau, Saxony. The location was chosen carefully.
There was unprecedented growth in 2023 in the European corporate power purchase agreement (PPA), with companies procuring a record number of new renewable energy capacity of 10.4 gigawatts.
Several containers with fake modules put into circulation. Bauer Solar is now taking legal action against the Chinese manufacturer and all other parties involved.
A research project by the ZSW in southern Germany is developing environmentally friendly energy storage systems for both urban transport and stationary applications.
Solar developer IB Vogt has sold a 122 MW solar photovoltaic project in Brandenburg, Germany to Octopus Energy Generation. The development of the plant marks ib vogt’s return to the German market.
A large Korean and globally networked trading company has acquired a minority stake in the German PV recycler Flaxres, thereby establishing a strategic partnership for significant non-European markets.
