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home-battery-sales Battery storage sales buoy sinking home solar market
Chris Crowell
March 13, 2025
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News Houston OASYS House 2024
Panasonic builds concept home to showcase solar, ESS, and new HVAC solution
March 13, 2025
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San José Clean Energy expands demand response program with Uplight
March 12, 2025
News Dean Solon ReCreate solar un-evil empire
TGC partners with Create Energy for supply of ReCreate solar modules
March 12, 2025
News solar panels stacked secondary market
Great deals on liquidated solar panels in secondary PV market in 2024
March 12, 2025
News Funding
Tandem PV secures $50M to pursue U.S. manufacturing of next-gen...

Perovskite solar technology holds the promise of higher efficiency solar panels. Perovskite has also been difficult to move from lab results...

March 10, 2025
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Fronius GEN24 with BYD battery is now a listed ESS...

The California Energy Commission (CEC) officially added the Fronius GEN24 hybrid solar inverter to its Energy Storage System (ESS) listing w...

March 10, 2025
Projects Projects Weekly solar energy storage
Savion launches Oklahoma project to expand U.S. solar portfolio |...

In the latest edition of Projects Weekly, we highlight Savion’s new 100 MW solar project in Oklahoma. Plus, Nevados trackers power Cal...

March 10, 2025
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Two new pest control guards for rooftop solar

Solar PV systems are the height of modern technology for the home, and a big investment for a homeowner — and the whole thing can be u...

March 10, 2025
+ Storage Solis ESS products
Solis inverters can join virtual power plants via Derapi

Solis, the third largest solar string inverter manufacturer in the world, is now partnering with Derapi to better enable Solis solar energy ...

March 10, 2025
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ABB updates load management tech in ReliaHome Smart Panel

Avoiding main panel upgrades is key in today’s solar + storage + home electrification market. At the NAHB International Builders&rsquo...

March 10, 2025
News solar cells made in US
The first U.S. polysilicon-to-PV module is officially on the way...

The first fully made-in-the-USA solar module — from polysilicon to final PV panel — might be on the way (again). Solar cell manu...

March 10, 2025
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Schneider Electric debuts Smart Power Manager at Builders Show

Everyone is offering some form of load control or smart breaker these days, to reduce the need for costly and complex traditional electrical...

March 6, 2025
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Electrovaya’s battery production in New York could start this April

Electrovaya Inc., a lithium-ion battery technology and manufacturing company based in Toronto, is completing preparations to start manufactu...

March 6, 2025
+ Storage battery control smarts
Energy control: Updates from Energy Toolbase and Stem this week

Energy Toolbase expanded its ability to model and deploy grid services in the Northeast via ConnectedSolutions and Clean Peak Standard (CPS)...

March 6, 2025
News Wallbox Quasar 2
EV charger updates: Smappee, Wallbox, Sinexcel showcase smarts, solar connections

Smappee EV Wall ay Intersolar 2025. Sorry my photos suck. Smappee is among the first “smart circuit” tech providers, and that ba...

March 6, 2025
News FranklinWH
Intersolar recap: Key updates to home battery storage product portfolios

At Intersolar North America in San Diego, FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc. announced a number of firsts. For starters, the new aPower S is the...

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