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Tristan Rayner pv magazine editor

Tristan Rayner pv magazine editor

Tristan Rayner

After studying Electrical Engineering and working in the field in control systems, Tristan turned his attention to editorial roles. Prior to joining pv magazine in 2020, and ESS News in 2024 in Berlin, he was Managing Editor and Founding Editor of tech and other publications in Australia.

With years of experience in news, tech, and energy, he has also contributed to a host of publications and podcasts. He also works on YouTube channel The Friday Checkout, among other roles.

Articles written by Tristan Rayner

Products

EcoFlow launches Oasis for smart residential energy management At CES 2025, EcoFlow has launched its Oasis energy management platform, which uses AI to optimize home energy consumption, storage, and solar power use.

Jan 06, 2025

Projects & Applications

Puerto Rico receives US DOE loans to boost battery storage to 1 GWh The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide more than half a billion dollars in loans to add nearly 1 GWh Convergent to build and operate utility-scale solar-plus-storage in Puerto Rico, improving grid resilience.

Jan 03, 2025

A TagEnergy BESS at Hawkers Hill Energy Park in the UK

Markets

Britain’s seven-fold increase in negative prices an opportunity for big batteries – analyst 2024 saw a big jump in negative energy prices when compared with 2022, with opportunities for flexible storage billed as necessities.

Jan 03, 2025

Manufacturing

Tesla smashes its own records with big increase in energy storage deployments in 2024 Tesla's energy storage deployments broke its own year-on-year records in 2024, for another consecutive year.

Jan 03, 2025

Finance

Aypa Power finances construction of a new 400 MWh battery in Texas Aypa Power secures financing to construct a 200 MW / 400 MWh BESS near Houston.

Jan 03, 2025

Expion360

Products

Expion360 starts shipping residential LFP batteries to integration partner Expion360 offers 5.12 kWh LFP batteries for residential and small business off-grid use.

Jan 02, 2025

Tenders

Saudi Arabia announces prequalified bidders for 2 GW / 8 GWh battery storage tender The Saudi Power Procurement Company has announced its list of 33 prequalified biders for its massive 2 GW/ 8 GWh BESS tender.

Jan 02, 2025

Tesla batteries at a solar facility

Manufacturing

Tesla starts trial production at Shanghai Megapack manufacturing plant Tesla's Shanghai Megapack factory, its first outside of the USA, begins trial production.

Jan 02, 2025

SunTrain prototype

R&D

SunTrain: Moving energy via batteries on railways SunTrain is hoping to ship renewable energy via battery-powered trains, charged from solar and wind, using rail networks.

Dec 17, 2024

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