Featured in Powering Through – 05-2025

Solar. Storage. Flexibility.

The concept of “too much solar” was inconceivable a decade ago. Today, the picture is quite different. Europe installed 65.5 GW of PV in 2024. Solar is the cheapest energy source across most of the world and will be the world’s largest source of electricity by 2033, according to the International Energy Agency. So our challenges have changed.

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pv magazine

05 May 2025

We now see growing negative prices, price cannibalization, and grid connection delays. Some frame this as “too much solar,” but we disagree. How can there be too much cheap, homegrown, clean energy? There is simply not enough energy storage and system flexibility.The benefits of PV, storage, and flexibility are clear. Hybrid projects at utility scale …

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