SolarEdge CEO Guy Sella dies after cancer battle
SolarEdge Technologies’ founder and former long-time CEO Guy Sella has passed away two years after revealing a colon cancer diagnosis, the firm has confirmed.
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SolarEdge appoints acting CEO as Guy Sella’s health deteriorates
SolarEdge CEO and founder Guy Sella has taken a leave of absence to continue his battle with colon cancer.
Podcast audio: SolarEdge’s first battery launch and how solar is ‘now a real contender’
Here's the extended audio version of our recent interview with Lior Handelsman, founder and VP for product and marketing strategy, talking for the first time in depth about the forthcoming launch of a battery system under the SolarEdge brand.
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Throwing caution to the wind (and sun): why Solaredge is ‘all in’ on energy storage
We talk about how solar and storage can be competitive with fossil fuels, how Solaredge is maintaining its own competitive advantage as well as some exclusive inside info on the company's forthcoming residential battery energy storage systems.
National Grid picks SolarEdge’s ESS inverters to join peak reduction scheme in New England
SolarEdge’s StorEdge inverters have been deemed eligible for a programme rolled out by National Grid in the US states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island encouraging customers to help reduce peak demand on local networks.
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Meeting Kokam: From oil platforms to renewables, why LFP vs NMC is ‘never-ending story’
We also asked what it means for the company to now be under SolarEdge's ownership, why effective management and control of batteries may be a more important safety question than just which battery chemistry to choose.
Charge and discharge cycles are a meaningless metric, SolarEdge founder says
The way the industry talks about batteries needs to change, SolarEdge founder Lior Handelsman has said, arguing that knowing the number of cycles of charge and discharge a battery can perform in its lifetime is essentially “meaningless”.
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What solar can really do: SolarEdge’s augmented reality demo in three scenarios
Renewable energy can truly run our world, from household to factory to farming in the fields and driving on the highways. Here’s a hands-on demonstration that uses augmented reality (AR) technology to show off distributed energy’s real-world capabilities.
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Smart future for renewables: ees Europe lands in Germany this week
Some of the products and companies we can look forward to seeing showcased this week at ees Europe, as Intersolar Europe's 'companion' show in Munich goes from strength to strength.
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SolarEdge: EV acquisition ties together ‘related revolutions’ in energy and transport
Acquisition feeds into the inverter and smart energy company’s overall ‘masterplan’ to involve itself in the full gamut of distributed and clean energy market segments.
Kokam’s newest high energy NMC cells will be used at South Korean solar-plus-storage projects
Kokam has been awarded contracts to deliver 40MWh of battery energy storage at solar power plants in South Korea, including its newest High Energy Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide (HE NMC) batteries.
SolarEdge eyes 1GW energy storage business
SolarEdge is targeting a world where the “majority of solar systems will include storage”, according to CEO Guy Sella, as the company announced record revenues and shipments in the third quarter of 2018.
SolarEdge targets ‘one-stop-shop’ destination with battery manufacturer acquisition
An agreement to buy 75% of Korean battery manufacturer Kokam gives SolarEdge a level of vertical integration that could make the PV company a ‘one-stop-shop’ for customers, while SolarEdge could diversify into areas outside solar energy.
SolarEdge to acquire battery manufacturer Kokam
Smart energy and inverter company SolarEdge will acquire the South Korean battery manufacturer Kokam.
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New controls, new values and new layers of functionality
Home storage systems have been considered an ‘early adopter’ market in many parts of the world, perhaps more important as a way that individuals can control their own green energy use and save energy than as a means of generating big money returns.
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Many things to many people: Virtual power plants Q&A with SolarEdge
Israel-headquartered SolarEdge launched a software platform for aggregating household energy storage units - and other distributed energy equipment - into virtual power plants, last week. The company’s solution has already been chosen for a VPP project in Australia by AGL, one of the country’s biggest utilities. The commercial launch of the VPP platform direct to customers is now underway. Andy Colthorpe spoke with Lior Handelsman, one of SolarEdge’s founders and vice president of marketing and product strategy.
SolarEdge launches virtual power plant platform to create new value for distributed storage
Virtual power plants (VPPs) can greatly increase the value of home energy storage systems for a range of stakeholders including grid operators, utilities and their customers, according to SolarEdge, which has just launched a VPP software platform.
ROUNDUP: Redflow ‘large scale battery’, KACO new inverter, PetersenDean picks SolarEdge/LG Chem
News in brief from around the world of energy storage.
2020 FiT expirations could be inflection point for Germany’s residential energy storage sales
Residential energy storage in Germany for PV self-consumption could be handed a boost in 2020, as some of the earliest premium feed-in tariffs (FiTs) begin to expire.
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Video interviews: AES, Eaton, SolarEdge and more at our Energy Storage Summit
Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit took place at the end of February and was attended by around 350 delegates and stakeholders, looking at energy storage markets in the UK and beyond. Collected here are seven interviews with leading figures at the event spanning utility-scale, commercial and residential energy storage.
SolarEdge rolls out new integrated residential solution throughout Europe
SolarEdge is rolling out a new complete residential solution throughout Europe that combines inverters, storage and home automation. The idea is to manage and monitor electricity consumption, solar energy generation and storage through one central device control that enables enhanced energy independence and increases self-consumption.
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Selecting storage solutions in residential PV systems
By combining PV with a storage solution, homeowners gain from a variety of possibilities to increase self-consumption, improve system profitability, and get backup power. However, it is important to know how to select the right kind of storage solution. Lior Handelsman of SolarEdge discusses some of the main factors involved.
London council ‘proves commercial scale energy storage works in the UK’
A local authority in London has procured a solar-plus-storage installation which the supplier claims will demonstrate that the technology can work at commercial scale in the UK.
SMA says Powerwall-compatible Sunny Boy Storage inverter is AC-coupled and retrofit-ready
SMA is aiming to tackle the market for retrofitting energy storage systems in to existing home PV installations, with a new AC-coupled version of its Sunny Boy inverter suitable for high voltage batteries.
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Tesla, Moixa, Sunamp: Storage firms set to make big splash at Solar Energy UK
We are approaching the sixth annual Solar Energy UK conference and exhibition, hosted by our publisher Solar Media. Taking place next week amid challenging times for the UK PV industry, recognition of the potential of storage at the top level at last, and actions already underway by the industry, will be among the central topics of discussion, with more exhibitors and conference strands than ever before.
Video: Future-proofing inverters for self-consumption and storage
Many in solar and other renewable energy industries are looking ahead to a future defined by self-consumption of on-site generated power and energy storage. As a key part of that, the role of the inverter is changing.