Featured in Outlook Obscured – 03-2025

The Smarter E: Financing the future

Solar is slowing in key markets, even with panels selling below production cost and nations failing to meet their clean energy targets. Chief among the challenges for PV is the lack of planning and investment needed to integrate new renewables into power grids.

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Mark Hutchins

05 Mar 2025

SolarPower Europe plans to make 2025 a year of policy action, as EU electrification has stalled at 23%. | Photo: Solar Promotion

For renewable energy to keep increasing its share of the global energy mix, solutions to the intermittent generation of solar power and wind capacity need to be ramped up.Solar and wind generation backed by batteries and other forms of energy storage offer a solution, as do transport electrification and the use of vehicle batteries to …

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