{"id":48958,"date":"2025-04-25T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48958\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T08:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:59:12","slug":"battery-experts-to-speak-at-solar-medias-intersolar-europe-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48958\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery experts to speak at Solar Media\u2019s Intersolar Europe panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion will feature battery experts Sofi Hildonen, executive vice president of business development at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-storage.news\/startup-elinor-batteries-launching-7-2mwh-bess-with-chinese-partner-morlus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elinor Bat<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-storage.news\/startup-elinor-batteries-launching-7-2mwh-bess-with-chinese-partner-morlus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">t<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-storage.news\/startup-elinor-batteries-launching-7-2mwh-bess-with-chinese-partner-morlus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eries<\/a>, which aims to build a 10GWh battery factory in Norway, and Nemanja Mikac, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-storage.news\/china-selling-below-cost-serbian-lfp-gigafactory-firm-elevenes-on-state-of-the-market-and-ramp-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ElevenEs<\/a>, a Serbia-based company that opened its LFP gigafactory in 2023, one of the first in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>They will be joined by three solar experts: Ga\u00ebtan Masson, CEO of the Becquerel Institute, whose longstanding expertise in European solar places him in the perfect position to discuss the challenges and opportunities for European manufacturing; Ed Crossland, chief technology officer at Oxford PV, whose production and commercial shipment of perovskite cells put the company at the forefront of cell innovation; and Bertrand Lecacheux, CEO of Holosolis, the company planning to build the largest module manufacturing factory in Europe, who can speak on the opportunities for module manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>These experts will discuss the role of clean energy manufacturing in Europe\u2019s decarbonisation goals, the economic challenges and financial viability of large-scale solar and storage manufacturing compared to the well-established industries in the US and China, and the unique position of Europe between the two industrial giants amid the escalating imposition of tariffs between them.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees can register for the panel for free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.livestorm.co\/solar-media\/make-or-break-time-for-european-pv-and-battery-manufacturing?utm_source=Livestorm+company+page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at this link<\/a>, and all are welcome to hear what the panellists have to say, participate in a question-and-answer session with the speakers, and to continue their conversations after the hour-long panel ends at Solar Media\u2019s stand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/becquerel-holosolis-and-oxford-pv-experts-to-speak-at-solar-medias-intersolar-europe-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See PV Tech\u2019s article promoting the event here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The discussion will feature battery experts Sofi Hildonen, executive vice president of business development at Elinor Batteries, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[8442,15900,2000,299,5187,1699,26532,5167,1243],"class_list":{"0":"post-48958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-battery","9":"tag-energystorageeurope","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-intersolar","15":"tag-manufacturing","16":"tag-solar"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114397784520891834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}