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July 10, 2025
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Solar Stress Test: Reliability gaps widen in latest PV module testing
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 closer to commercialization
July 9, 2025
News white house biden
Trump guts solar tax credits in ‘OBBBA’ and directs Treasury to issue more restrictive guidance
July 7, 2025
+ Storage California is the place you ought to be
Clean Energy Alliance debuts programs to install home batteries at no cost
July 7, 2025
+ Storage Microinverter + Solar Panels
EcoFlow STREAM now available in Utah along with new smart...

EcoFlow’s compact and modular “plug-and-play” solar solution, STREAM, is now available for purchase in Utah — the co...

July 7, 2025
News baby-boomers
EnergySage and Third Act partner to rally Boomers behind rooftop...

In a move that could help demystify rooftop solar for a key demographic of homeowners—and maybe give the industry a much-needed boost&...

July 7, 2025
News Fronius solar web
Fronius USA adds remote configuration for GEN24 inverters to speed...

Fronius USA has launched a new remote configuration and reporting feature for its GEN24 and GEN24 Plus inverters, aimed at streamlining the ...

July 7, 2025
Projects Projects Weekly solar energy storage
Pisgah Energy helps N.C. fruit farm go solar | Projects...

Pisgah Energy is helping North Carolina-based Deal Orchards get 75% of its energy needs from solar. Geronimo Power hosts community social ev...

July 7, 2025
Policy congress
Welp, they did it. House passes reconciliation bill that jeopardizes...

Two days after the Senate passed the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the House of Representatives finalized the reconciliati...

July 3, 2025
Policy congress
Senate votes to scale back solar tax breaks to send...

The solar industry is reeling after the Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s far-reaching policy bill with a vote of 51-50....

July 1, 2025
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Civ Robotics secures $7.5M to modernize renewable energy construction

Civ Robotics has secured funding to fuel the growth of its line of all-terrain surveying and autonomous material distribution robots aimed a...

July 1, 2025
News survey results
Survey: Homeowners in extreme weather-prone states looking for battery alternatives

An overwhelming 91% of combined homeowners polled in California, Texas and Florida worry about the impacts of extreme weather, rising energy...

July 1, 2025
Projects Projects Weekly solar energy storage
Namaste Solar teams with Boulder, Colo. | Projects Weekly

Namaste Solar partnered with the city of Boulder, Colorado, to install a 333.54 kW flush-mount rooftop solar system at a modular home factor...

June 30, 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
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Heatwave grid save: Sunrun Home Battery fleets dispatch 340 MW...

Sunrun project in Fresno, Calif. As record heat and energy demand strain power grids across the U.S., Sunrun’s distributed battery fle...

June 26, 2025
News IESNA VP, Wes Doane, with MWSE Founder, Jake Rozmaryn, onsite at Midwest Solar Expo 2025.
Midwest Solar Expo to rebrand as Intersolar & Energy Storage...

IESNA VP Wes Doane (left) with MWSE Founder Jake Rozmaryn Goodbye Midwest Solar Expo, hello to Intersolar & Energy Storage North America...

June 26, 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
News robot writing
Freedom Forever debuts in-house AI to improve operations and support

Freedom Forever, one of the country’s largest residential solar installers, launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) assistant name...

June 25, 2025
+ Storage SolarEdge Home Battery
U.S. battery supply boost: SolarEdge shipping from Salt Lake City,...

Two key brands in the battery energy storage space in the U.S. announced production milestones at new facilities this week. Let’s take...

June 25, 2025