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Articles by Chris Crowell

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Beyond the OBBB: Solar facing a federal pile-on of duties...

The solar industry is still scrambling to understand the implications of the OBBB. Now comes the real pile-on. A series of memos, trade acti...

July 18, 2025
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Bidding Wars: To win on the grid, GridBeyond points to...

In our Bidding Wars series, we will look at the BESS operators and optimizers that are playing (and winning) in the evolving energy market a...

July 17, 2025
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California Senate Committee moves to preserve net metering rights in...

A controversial California bill that sparked backlash across the solar, housing, and environmental sectors is now set to be amended. On Tues...

July 15, 2025
News KIWA PVEL Load tester
Solar Stress Test: Reliability gaps widen in latest PV module...

Solar modules are cranking out more Watts than ever, but reliability is decreasing. New data from Kiwa PVEL and RETC / VDE Americas show ala...

July 9, 2025
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Tandem PV glass and quantum dots: Two U.S. PV innovations...

While solar module manufacturers continue their race to the bottom on pricing, two U.S.-based innovators are trying to forge a new course&md...

July 9, 2025
News white house biden
Trump guts solar tax credits in ‘OBBBA’ and directs Treasury...

The Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress wanted to gut renewable energy incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, and that miss...

July 7, 2025
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SEIA secures approval for two national standards focused on solar...

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has officially approved two new solar and storage standards developed by the Solar Energy I...

June 27, 2025
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Federal tax credits or not, 195 GW of queued solar...

The potential rollback of clean energy tax credits has spurred plenty of anxiety across the solar and storage sector. How many projects in t...

June 26, 2025
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Roofs of Hazard: PV connector risks continue to plague solar...

Who is ready for some more bad news this week? Field inspection and analytics firm HelioVolta reports the solar industry is still struggling...

June 18, 2025
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Senate budget bill looks no better for residential solar

The solar industry is watching each step of the budget reconciliation bill process with rapt attention because so much rests on the cuts and...

June 17, 2025
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The PPA Comeback? Aspen Power eyes mid-market C&I solar reset

Despite interconnection bottlenecks and looming tax credit uncertainty, Aspen Power is feeling bullish on the commercial and industrial (C&a...

June 16, 2025
News Bila Solar factory lines video
Bila Solar’s ‘domestic content’ solar modules now available

Bila Solar is now producing a line of domestic content solar modules at its Indianapolis factory, sourcing U.S.-made solar cells from ES Fou...

June 16, 2025
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Sunrun readies 130,000+ home batteries for summer grid support

Nation’s largest virtual power plant operator preps 650 MW of dispatchable capacity across U.S. as Congress mulls ending the tax credi...

June 11, 2025
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SolMicroGrid’s Pitch: Sell us your solar array, get a microgrid...

Photo credit: SolMicroGrid Commercial building owners invest in solar arrays for many reasons. Some for the return on investment, others to ...

June 11, 2025
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