China’s National Energy Administration has announced that the country now has an installed battery capacity of 35.3 GW / 77.68 GWh as of Q1 2024. That is three times the figure from Q1 2023. There is a trend of individually larger installations, with sub-10 MW installs accounting for 6.7% of the total, 10 MW to 100 MW accounting for 38.5%, and projects over 100 MW projects accounting for 54.8%. The most active region in the country for battery additions is the northwestern desert, which also hosts a vast build out of utility-scale wind and solar. Aiko Solar has released the first zero-busbar solar module design within the Back Contact category – which is likely to produce the highest-efficiency module on…