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Articles by Chris Crowell

O&M solar worker apprenticeship
New standards, new skills: Solar workforce training efforts scale up...

A national push to standardize and scale clean energy job training is beginning to show results. This push is coming from both nationwide as...

July 28, 2025
+ Storage Texas utility solar
Sunrun and Tesla Electric team up on fixed-rate solar and...

Battery storage companies all have their sights on Texas, and are finding new partnerships and deal structures to offer homeowners in the Lo...

July 24, 2025
+ Storage Enzinc battery
CEC awards $1.6M to Enzinc for zinc battery R&D aimed...

As California races to meet its clean energy goals while shoring up grid resilience, advanced battery innovators like Enzinc are gaining tra...

July 22, 2025
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Beyond OBBB: Outlook for solar installers without the tax credit...

The Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is signed, as is the death warrant for the residential solar tax credit. On Power Forward!, Solar Builder Edit...

July 21, 2025
Featured trump trade case
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
+ Storage Alpha generating strategies GridBeyond
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
News california state house governor
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
PV Modules UbiQD-Quantum dots glowing with various colors in vials
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
News Standards.
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
Featured interconnection-queue
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
Featured Sample of Connectors from Field - Courtesy of HelioVolta
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
News senate energy bill
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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