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March 6, 2025
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Electrovaya’s battery production in New York could start this April
March 6, 2025
+ Storage battery control smarts
Energy control: Updates from Energy Toolbase and Stem this week
March 6, 2025
News Wallbox Quasar 2
EV charger updates: Smappee, Wallbox, Sinexcel showcase smarts, solar connections
March 6, 2025
News FranklinWH
Intersolar recap: Key updates to home battery storage product portfolios
March 6, 2025
+ Storage Design whole-home electrification plans in Aurora Solar
ICYMI: You can now sell, design whole-home electrification plans in...

Solar installers are morphing into home electrification contractors. The business evolution makes sense considering how solar, batteries, EV...

March 6, 2025
+ Storage Vikram-Solar-logo
Vikram Solar gets into solid-state battery manufacturing

Vikram Solar, one of India’s largest solar module manufacturers, plans to broaden its capabilities with a 1 GWh fully integrated solid...

March 6, 2025
News SPAN panel
SPAN debuts two expanded smart panels for homebuilders

SPAN has release two new models of smart panels — SPAN Panel MAIN 40 +MID and SPAN Panel MLO 48 — that have 25-50% more breaker ...

March 5, 2025
News FacetMount
S-5! teams with Sustainable Technologies to offer single-ply roof solar...

Metal roof attachment leader S-5! is expanding its offering via strategic joint venture with Sustainable Technologies. The focus of the coll...

March 5, 2025
News American made solar domestic content
SolarEdge promotes Build America, Buy America compliant inverters

SolarEdge‘s U.S.-manufactured solar inverter portfolio has achieved Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act compliance. This BABA compli...

March 4, 2025
News Hoymiles Intersolar
Hoymiles launches lightweight microinverter series at Intersolar 2025

Hoymiles launched its highly anticipated MiS series microinverters at Intersolar North America 2025, which boasts the lightest weight and hi...

March 4, 2025
News Emtel Energy and Solar Builder
Your definitive Intersolar 2025 recap and vibes check

Dispatches From the Energy Transition live event was a great start to the week. How to sum up Intersolar and Energy Storage North America 20...

March 4, 2025
Projects Projects Weekly solar energy storage
U.S. Army base adds 4 MW solar installation in Kansas...

This edition of Projects Weekly kicks off with the U.S Army is adding a 4 MW solar system to its existing installation in Kansas. In additio...

March 3, 2025
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Report: Solar permitting in Colorado is still inefficient

Permitting delays often create unnecessary challenges for solar installers and homeowners interested in going solar. This often comes back t...

March 3, 2025
News Solar Gaines leadership hires
Commercial construction firm Solar Gaines adds to leadership team

Baltimore-based commercial solar construction firm Solar Gaines announced two strategic new hires to bolster the company’s leadership ...

March 3, 2025
News ES Foundry
ES Foundry supplying U.S.-made solar cells to Bila Solar

ES Foundry recently opened a crystalline solar cell production facility in Greenwood, South Carolina (we attended the ribbon cutting) &mdash...

March 3, 2025
+ Storage battery prices
Key factors impacting energy storage pricing to start 2025

Anza published its inaugural quarterly Energy Storage Pricing Insights Report this week to provide an overview of median list-price trends f...

February 27, 2025
Projects Projects Weekly solar energy storage
EDP Renewables teams with Amazon on new Mississippi solar park...

In this edition of the Projects Weekly, EDP Renewables has built a new 100 MW solar project in Madison County, Mississippi. Nautilus Solar E...

February 24, 2025
Projects
Record 1.7 GW of U.S. community solar installed in 2024

The U.S. community solar market installed a record-breaking 1.7 GWdc of capacity in 2024, a 35% increase from 2023, according to a new ...

February 24, 2025
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Sunnova lays off 300 employees, focuses on ‘high-margin business’

Forecasts for residential solar continue to trend downward. Persistently high interest rates and policy uncertainty has moved much of the ma...

February 20, 2025