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DJI used the IFA 2026 show in Berlin to present a complete balcony solar kit that bundles solar panels, a microinverter and its 2,048Wh Power 2000 battery into a plug-and-play package, with live demonstrations showing power fed directly into a standard household socket and an estimated €680 in annual electricity savings. The bundled kit will be sold in Germany first, with no timeline yet for international expansion. The move marks DJI's formal entry from portable power stations into Europe's residential energy market.

The 1,044MW Dama Solar project in Romania's Arad County has received its final authorization, clearing the way for construction and positioning it to become Europe's largest solar plant. Developed by Resolv Energy, the project is expected to begin construction in 2026 and reach completion by late 2028, backed by a Contract for Difference and €100 million in European Investment Bank funding, with an additional €107 million IFC loan under consideration. Once operational, Dama Solar could supply electricity equivalent to the consumption of roughly 280,000 homes.

Tesla has begun production of its third-generation utility-scale battery system, the Megapack 3, at its Brookshire, Texas facility, which is designed for 50GWh of annual capacity and moved from groundbreaking to operation in roughly 16 months. The Megapack 3 offers around 5MWh of usable capacity per unit with 28% higher energy density than the Megapack 2 XL, and is optimized for discharges of up to eight hours. Deliveries are expected to begin by the end of 2026, and at full output the Texas plant alone will exceed the combined capacity of Tesla's Lathrop and Shanghai megafactories.