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German battery storage reaches 22.1 GWh at halfway point of 2025 Germany's battery storage capacity rapidly expands, nearing two million installations by the end of the first half of 2025.

Sandra Enkhardt

Jul 18, 2025

Finance

Perspective on flexibility: How batteries, demand response, and interconnectors are powering a new grid As renewables surge and baseload plants retire, the energy system is facing an urgent need for flexible capacity to balance increasing volatility. While long-term solutions like batteries, interconnectors, and green hydrogen are underway, several short-term measures – from pairing new renewable energy plants with storage to leveraging underused grid connections – could help bridge the flexibility gap now. Sven Heiligtag, Managing Director at Vireo Ventures, explores both the challenges and actionable opportunities to stabilize the grid during the transition.

Jul 14, 2025

Finance

Australian scheme to deliver 100 neighborhood batteries kicks off final funding round The Australian state of Victoria has launched its third and final round of grant funding through the 100 Neighbourhood Batteries Program, offering AUD$400,000 per battery through multiple streams of eligibility to a pool of nine council regions.

Jul 11, 2025

Finance

Delta Green and E.ON offering $234 a year to households for grid flexibility The virtual power plant (VPP) revolution is rolling out, with E.ON offering flexibility to the grid from home batteries, electric vehicle chargers, solar exports, and more, via Delta Green's software, and paying households for the optionality.

Jul 10, 2025

Energy Storage Systems

Grid-scale

Researchers identify optimal level of solar, battery storage for Europe Scientists in Hungary have developed a model to calculate the optimal PV and battery storage balance to support the European grid in the next few years. They found the cost-optimal range is 530 GW to 880 GW of solar, combined with battery storage equivalent to 2.5% to 7.5% of the total intermittent capacity.

Jul 09, 2025

Distributed

‘After the blackout, we saw a 70% increase in demand for batteries and hybrid kits’ Javier Rodríguez Lizcano, CEO of clean energy wholesaler Solarbox, tells pv magazine Spain about solar equipment trends and highlights growing interest in batteries and hybrid systems for homes and small businesses.

Jul 08, 2025

Distributed

Batteries paired with 26% of new rooftop PV in Spain in 2024 The figure underscores continual growth in distributed energy despite a decline in total installed storage capacity.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

Jul 07, 2025

pv magazine USA Week 2025

pv magazine USA Week 2025

pv magazine USA is hosting the second edition of itsmulti-day virtual event, focused on advancing the U.S. solar and energy storage markets through innovative financing, domestic manufacturing growth, and the expanding role of distributed energy solutions.

Each day delves deeply into a key topic, including unlocking capital for solar projects, navigating the evolving domestic supply chain, and harnessing the potential of distributed energy to build a more resilient grid.

October 28-30, 2025 | Virtual Event

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Labor election win brings Australian household battery rebate The work schedules of Australia’s battery retailers and installers will likely get busy in the coming months with Labor’s win in the federal election paving the way for the introduction of an AUD 2.3 billion ($1.48 billion) national subsidy scheme.

May 06, 2025

Revenue streams

Vattenfall, Terralayr sign “industry-first” virtual battery tolling agreement A virtual tolling agreement in storage provides aggregated access to a battery fleet versus a single asset.

May 05, 2025

Finance

Loan for Guatemalan renewables, energy storage minigrids The minigrids, and individual solar-plus-storage systems, form part of a Rural Electrification Access Program planned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

May 05, 2025

Distributed

Sunrun bolsters California grid with 75,000 distributed batteries Customers with batteries can opt in to the CalReady virtual power plant (VPP) that is expected to dispatch electricity from 250 MW of residential systems during two-hour peak-grid-demand events.

May 05, 2025

Manufacturing

Elywhere, Evyon merge to combine second-life batteries with EV charging The Norwegian companies will exist under the Elywhere brand, supplying an all-in-one skid that provides fast-charging for electric vehicles (EVs)

May 05, 2025

Distributed

Panasonic exits solar and battery energy storage, ending decades-long journey The company has told installation partners it will no longer make products for residential solar and energy storage but will continue to offer warranty and installation support for existing and ongoing projects.

John Fitzgerald Weaver

May 02, 2025

Products

PowerPlus presents residential hybrid inverter, battery solution Australian battery designer and manufacturer PowerPlus Energy has unveiled a new all-in-one energy storage solution featuring a single-phase 7 kW inverter and a 13.4 KWh stackable battery.

Apr 30, 2025

Distributed

FlexHome Energy: Get a free home battery, let your utility use it, and save on energy costs A new product from German supplier FlexHome Energy would offer residents without a solar array, such as apartment dwellers, the chance to make electricity savings and strengthen the grid.

Sandra Enkhardt

Apr 29, 2025

Markets

History repeats as Iberian blackout demonstrates urgent need for battery storage The vast blackout that gripped the Iberian Peninsula on April 28 has echoes of a similar event in an Australian state in 2016. The solution in both cases appears to be the same.

Jonathan Gifford

Apr 29, 2025

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