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Italy’s Barrel claims that solar kits packed in barrels are ideal for remote areas and conflict zones. Its standard packages consist of 6 kW solar modules, 5.6 kW single-phase hybrid inverters, and 3.55 kWh lithium batteries.

Fortum Charge & Drive India has unveiled its new brand identity ‘Glida’ signifying its commitment to delivering a seamless electric vehicle (EV) charging experience in India. Glida plans to increase the number of its EV charging points to 3,000 by 2025 from around 450 at present.    

The Chilean authorities want to contract 5,400 GWh of power from renewable energy, while also including battery storage. The selected developers will secure 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs).

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.

ABB India has launched MegaFlex DPA (decentralized parallel architecture) UPS solutions with energy efficiency of up to 97.4% for the Indian market. The UPS are claimed to have up to 45% smaller footprint than competing products.

A Canadian research group has applied new guidelines for ground coverage ratios to 31 locations in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. It found the new formulae show that the factors affecting inter-row energy yield loss are highly dependent on latitude.

Small-scale PV systems drove the installation of more than 200 GW of solar capacity last year and could support more than 300 GW this year. That means a reset for utilities.

Solar’s levelized cost of electricity will reach $30/MWh in 2050, as global capacity surges, said DNV.

China’s Sinopec has switched on the world’s largest solar-to-hydrogen project in Xinjiang, while India has unveiled a new plan to incentivize green hydrogen and electrolyzer production.

Torrent has started a pilot project to blend green hydrogen with natural gas in the city gas distribution (CGD) network of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.