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Greece’s Go Beyond Solar Battery Programme: Big Ambitions, Small Turnout

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Greece’s Go Beyond Solar Battery Programme: Big Ambitions, Small Turnout Greece has taken a step forward in supporting commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage. The Ministry of Environment and Energy has provisionally approved 209 businesses to receive €8.15 million in subsidies for 28.2 MW/49.3 MWh of battery storage, paired with 30.8 MW of solar PV

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China’s Battery Boom Pivoting from Scale to Utilisation – What It Means for Solar+Storage

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China has built the world’s largest battery storage fleet in record time. According to a new report from energy think tank Ember, total installed lithium‑ion battery storage capacity reached nearly 150 GW by the first quarter of 2026 – more than half of global BESS capacity, up from just over 20% in 2021. Now, the country is

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Germany’s Renewable Market Enters a More Demanding Phase – Sunlink Insights

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Germany’s Renewable Electricity Market Enters a More Demanding Phase – What Solar Asset Owners Need to Know For more than two decades, Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) provided a stable, predictable framework for renewable investors. Feed‑in tariffs and later market premium schemes gave asset owners high revenue visibility. That era is ending. Germany’s power system

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Grid-Forming Technology Takes Centre Stage as Search for System Resilience Steps Up

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Electricity grids have historically relied on the inertia of heavy spinning turbines in coal, gas, nuclear, and hydro plants to maintain frequency stability. But as we replace synchronous generators with solar and wind, that inertia disappears. Without action, a grid dominated by renewables risks becoming unstable. Initial UK studies from 2012 showed that if non‑synchronous generation exceeds

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Scientists identify new loss factor in tracker-based PV plants on slightly undulating terrain

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Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid claim to have identified a new source of underperformance in ground-mounted PV plants utilizing solar trackers. “We initiated this work after receiving several queries at IES-UPM questioning why the irradiance gain of trackers in utility-scale PV plants was lower than that estimated during the design phase,” corresponding author Juan Santamaría Sancho

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Battery management systems key to deploying batteries in data centers

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Powering data centers with renewable energy and storage presents a range of technical and economic challenges that independent power producers, EPC contractors, and investors have only recently begun to address. In this context, large-scale batteries are expected to play a key role, supplying the active power needed during demand spikes and coordinating energy flows between generation, storage,

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How to build giant solar plants in mountainous areas

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Researchers from the Chinese energy company Yunnan Longyuan New Energy have proposed a new methodology for the designing of utility-scale PV plants in hilly or mountainous regions. In particular, they conducted a simulation study of a south-oriented mountain PV farm located in the southern Chinese city of Pu’er, in the Yunnan province. High-resolution digital elevation

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Battery shortage intensifies as 100 Ah cells sell out into 2026

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hina’s battery champions are racing to add capacity as a tightening supply of small-format cells ripples through the global energy storage market. At an online briefing on October 20, Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) told investors it was “fully advancing global capacity construction” to meet surging orders. The company’s third-quarter revenue rose 12.9% year on year

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China connects largest battery-supercapacitor hybrid storage plant

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A 100 MW hybrid frequency-regulation plant in northern Shanxi province, North China, was connected to the grid at the end of August and is expected to enter full commercial operation following testing in September, according to its developers. Touted as the world’s largest supercapacitor-based installation, the facility combines a 58 MW/30-second supercapacitor array with 42

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