Home Batteries, Panels Helping to Save Europe's Slowing Solar-Panel Market

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Europe's slowing solar-panel market could be revived by 2017 as households buy batteries that allow them to store power, making rooftop photovoltaic installations cheaper to run than buying from the grid, REC Solar Holdings AS said. Europe could add 9 gigawatts of panels in 2017 and 11 gigawatts in 2018, up from 7 last year, as panels and batteries will be able to produce and store power at about 16 euro cents (18 cents) a kilowatt-hour compared with an average of 23 euro cents from the grid, Senior Vice President Luc Grare said Aug. 3.