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Water and electricity don’t mix, but puddles are appearing in all sorts of places right now. Can we keep rainwater out of EV charging plugs? Yes, but not without some attention to detail. Is It A Problem If Home EV…
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VIDEO: Fluence’s Lars Stephan on what data centres and cybersecurity developments mean for BESS in Europe
New hardware, particularly around grid-forming and sodium-ion solutions, were a key theme over the three days. Sodium-ion especially was talk of the town, following big industry news in the space. Stephan said new technologies are always exciting, but that analytics…
Sunrun, Renew Home form nation’s largest VPP with Tesla
By Martin McConnell July 1, 2026 Home storage and solar firm Sunrun and energy management platform Renew Home have partnered with EV giant Tesla to form the largest virtual power plant (VPP) service in the U.S. Promising to deliver more…
A Solar Battery’s Secret Lever: The Minimum Reserve Level
The minimum level of charge a battery will keep up its sleeve can be customised to best suit your priorities – whether it’s maximising energy trading profits, blackout protection or reducing degradation. You can even tweak it temporarily in response…
UK goes big on LDES cap-and-floor; 18-hour lithium-ion wins
The scheme aims to enable the deployment of LDES capacity to improve security of supply, reduced emissions and lower system costs. The UK government forecasts an increased need for LDES as more renewables come online, but because of the long…
GameChange consolidates solar, eBOS, monitoring under single brand
By Martin McConnell June 1, 2026 GameChange Solar and GameChange BOS have combined to form GameChange Energy, a new global energy infrastructure company, the newly-minted firm announced June 1. The integration consolidates four of GameChange’s major assets: the original tracker…
Do You Have The Right Inverter For 3 Free Hours Of Power?
SolarQuotes customer Louise Potgieter invested in a home battery system expecting to cut her bills down to size. She went on holiday, only to return to an unpleasantly large bill. She’s written about what happened, what to look out for,…
Enphase Energy brings microinverter tech to data centres
Less than a year later, the company announced the initial shipment of its AC-coupled IQ Battery 5P units, which met the new federal threshold for solar and storage tax credits from US manufacturing facilities. Recently, the company has expanded focus…
RETC PV Module Index highlights panel reliability concerns
By Martin McConnell June 8, 2026 VDE Group affiliate RETC has released its 2026 PV Module Index (PVMI) at a crucial time for the industry, as manufacturers around the world continue to face financial pressures and increasing demands. The U.S.…
Who are the companies commercialising large-scale thermal energy storage technologies today
Rondo Energy Rondo Energy has developed a modular heat battery, called the Rondo Heat Battery (RHB), as a large-scale thermal energy storage system for use across many industries. It’s primarily designed for use in industrial sites as a replacement for fossil-fuel boilers. The RHB has been designed to charge off cheap, renewable…
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