How We Power Through: Key Takeaways from The smarter E Europe 2025

The final episode of Powering Through, The smarter E podcast’s special feature series, takes a look forward by looking back. It revisits the most compelling insights and recurring themes from the wide-ranging conversations that shaped the series.

The key highlights include:

• How solar power is meeting surging electricity demand, and, when coupled with energy storage, delivering reliable, affordable energy in emerging economies
• The challenges of scaling solar deployment in Europe, and the growing need for flexibility and storage
• How battery energy storage can strengthen electricity networks, with lessons from the April 28 Iberian blackout
• The future of flexibility in Europe and the market reforms needed to unlock it
• Hurdles in battery manufacturing and increasing industry capabilities
• The rapid growth of e-mobility, China’s expanding EV adoption and exports, and the role of electric transport in supporting renewable integration
• The rise of China’s PV manufacturing dominance and the importance of global collaboration

The episode also takes listeners onto The smarter E Europ exhibition floor to capture fresh perspectives from attendees – what they learned, what surprised them, and which developments they see as having the greatest impact.

About The smarter E Podcast

Im The smarter E Podcast dreht sich alles um die aktuellen Trends und Entwicklungen einer erneuerbaren, dezentralen und digitalen Energiewirtschaft. Unsere Moderatoren Tobias Bücklein und Zackes Brustik begrüßen und interviewen Persönlichkeiten, die unsere Branche prägen und Entwicklungen vorantreiben. Eine neue Folge erscheint jeden Donnerstag.

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About the guests

In the order from left to right:

Abigail Ross Hopper, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), Jenny Chase is a solar analyst with BloombergNEF; Julian Jansen is the Growth and Market Development Director for the EMEA region at Fluence; Michael Schreiber is Head of Flex for the German market at Octopus Energy; Walburga Hemetsberger has been the CEO of SolarPower Europe; Josefin Berg is a Research & Analysis Manager at S&P Global Commodity Insights; Ivan Saha is the CEO of Renewable Manufacturing at Reliance Infrastructure (Rinfra); Adele Zhao is the Head of Marketing, Product & Service, Europe at Trina Solar; Thomas Raffeiner is the founder and CEO of The Mobility House; Martin Green is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales; Gerard Reid is a leading global expert and financier in the energy transition space

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