SolarPower Europe

Year after year, the study found solar was underestimated, and in the most ambitious scenario the agency had, solar installations were supposed to peak at about six hundred and fifty gigawatts a year in twenty forty.

According to SolarPower Europe's latest market outlook, the world installed more than that last year, a decade and a half ahead of schedule.

To understand why that's happened, let's start by looking back at the Energy Transition Show itself.

In June of twenty twenty-three, on episode two hundred, Chris sat down with Jeff St. John of Canary Media to look back at the show's first eight years.

Stationary storage has continued to grow, though.

Uh, SolarPower Europe reported that cumulative European battery storage capacity exceeded one hundred gigawatt hours by the end of last year, after Europe added thirty-six gigawatt hours of storage in the entire year.

And what about home batteries? Household batteries increased sharply following the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

SolarPower Europe has called for Europe's stationary battery fleet to increase tenfold by 2030, and I'm sure it will, by the way.

The larger battery store, of course, lies in all of our vehicles, but its role on the grid rests on technology which is still frustratingly just out of reach.

Li Auto, a Chinese carmaker, plans a European debut for its i6, that's a big electric SUV, at the Paris Motor Show in October.