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Valerie Thompson Editor pv magazine
Valerie Thompson Editor pv magazine

Valerie Thompson

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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.
Tristan Rayner
Jan 02, 2025
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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.
Tristan Rayner
Dec 17, 2024
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Finance
Sinovoltaics updates battery energy storage system financial stability ranking The latest financial stability ranking keeps Tesla, Mustang Battery, Kung Long Batteries, Hyundai Electric and Eaton, in the top five spots in a report that includes 55 manufacturers.
Valerie Thompson
Dec 10, 2024
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Finance
SolarEdge announces closure of its Energy Storage Division SolarEdge will shutter its energy storage unit and manufacturing, cutting 500 jobs.
Tristan Rayner
Nov 27, 2024
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Disassembled batteries
Finance
Li-Cycle’s battery recycling facility wins $475M loan from Department of Energy The loan will support Li-Cycle in further advancing a lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Rochester, in New York state, which may then become a source of battery materials.
Tristan Rayner
Nov 08, 2024
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Finance
Record revenues for UK battery fleets in October Firms and analysts operating in the UK have pointed to record revenues in October 2024 for battery systems.
Tristan Rayner, Max Hall
Nov 08, 2024
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Finance
SolarEdge posts $1.21 billion net loss with 189 MWh energy storage sold, in Q3’24 SolarEdge reported $260.9 million in revenue for the third quarter of 2024, down from $725.3 million in the same quarter last year, while shipping 189 MWh of batteries for PV applications along with its large inverter business.
Tristan Rayner
Nov 08, 2024
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Finance
Ze Energy secures $58M to expand hybrid solar plus storage projects in Europe The French-based developer and financer of solar plus storage projects aims to use the capital injection to grow their generation and BESS plant portfolio.
Tristan Rayner
Nov 08, 2024
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Grid-scale
Latvia unveils first grid-scale battery as it prepares to swap Russian grid for Europe Hoymiles supplies the batteries as Latvia activates its first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) ahead of planned decoupling from Russian grid.
Tristan Rayner
Nov 08, 2024

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