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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.

Smart energy and inverter company SolarEdge will acquire the South Korean battery manufacturer Kokam.

UK solar distributor Midsummer Energy says its sales figures have doubled in the last year on the back of negotiating key supply partnerships.

SolarEdge is eyeing a top three place in the utility solar market as it continues to ramp up its ambitions in the segment.

Lior Handelsman, VP of Marketing & Product Strategy and Founder of SolarEdge, discusses cloud-based grid services and VPP solutions that offer real-time aggregative control and data reporting while enabling the pooling of PV, storage, and EV chargers.

SPONSORED: Lior Handelsman, VP of Marketing & Product Strategy and Founder of SolarEdge, discusses the new concept of a synergistic inverter.

SolarEdge is seeking damages, an injunction and a recall of products it claims have been built using its intellectual property.

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. Energy-Storage.News editor Andy Colthorpe spoke with Lior Handelsman, one of SolarEdge’s founders and vice president of marketing and product strategy.

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.

SPONSORED: To date, the electric vehicle and the PV energy markets have existed independently of each other. By combining EV charging with PV energy, both industries are able to benefit and can potentially hasten the adoption of each technology, writes Lior Handelsman.