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A number of US green hydrogen projects have had previously approved federal grants withheld recently but innovation, opportunity, and demand remain strong. Leading the way is California, as Will Crampton, CEO of TreasureBeam, tells pv magazine.

  Where we’ve been Key, The Energy Transition Expo, Rimini, Italy Key returned to Rimini from March 5 to 7, registering a 20% increase in total attendance compared to 2024. The increase was most pronounced for visitors from outside Italy, with numbers up 40%, in line with the strong participation of international companies showcasing products […]

The European Commission has presented ideas on how to boost power purchase agreements (PPAs) to shield corporate and industrial clean electricity buyers from price volatility while decarbonizing their energy supply.

Germany saw an unexpected level of negative price hours in 2024 and the market is still adjusting. The risk of low or negative electricity prices is increasingly shaping power purchase agreement (PPA) terms, even as it remains the key pricing factor. At present, long-term PPAs offer only slightly higher prices than those in the tender segment.

Module prices from China have eked out slight gains over the past month amid policy changes in the country’s power market. Overcapacity remains an albatross around the market’s neck, however, obscuring the outlook for the second half of the year.

In Europe, the volume of solar and wind generation capacity signed under power purchase agreements (PPAs) fell in 2024. Energy price volatility receded as a key driver and a new risk emerged, in the form of solar and wind intermittency causing an increase in negative electricity price periods. Market intelligence provider Pexapark expects the European PPA market to return growth in 2025 as project developers and their customers adapt to the new market reality and energy storage plays a growing role in balancing electricity networks.

Corporate power purchase agreements (cPPAs) are a useful tool for project developers seeking finance to build projects. As the UK solar market expands, however, some well-established businesses are ready to embrace a little risk as they consider a future as independent power producers (IPPs).

Growing corporate interest in hourly matching power purchase agreements (PPAs) is expected to drive the pairing of PV, wind, and battery energy storage systems (BESS), with potential broader impacts on the energy procurement market, as Neil Ford reports.

Amid a record amount of new solar capacity added in China in 2024, the share held by small-scale, “distributed” arrays fell to 38%, from 58% in 2022. Grid constraints, policy changes, and pricing adjustments have impacted home and business solar arrays, as Vincent Shaw reports, from Shanghai.

Live events can have a dark side to the good times, particularly when it comes to environmental impact such as carbon emissions or waste. It doesn’t have to be that way, though, with a new generation of batteries bolstering power supplies and increasingly flicking the switch on diesel gensets.