virtual power plants

Current± editor Liam Stoker and Energy-Storage News editor Andy Colthorpe take a thorough look at what was being exhibited at this year’s Intersolar in Munich, where a maturing European solar industry was taking to high-efficiency modules, electric vehicles and cloud-based virtual power stations with ease.

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