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Emtel Energy and Solar Builder Your definitive Intersolar 2025 recap and vibes check
Chris Crowell
March 4, 2025
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Projects Projects Weekly solar energy storage
U.S. Army base adds 4 MW solar installation in Kansas | Projects Weekly
March 3, 2025
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Report: Solar permitting in Colorado is still inefficient
March 3, 2025
News Solar Gaines leadership hires
Commercial construction firm Solar Gaines adds to leadership team
March 3, 2025
News ES Foundry
ES Foundry supplying U.S.-made solar cells to Bila Solar
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
News OrigamiSolar-steel-module-frame
Heliene solar modules with Origami Solar steel frames coming this...

North American solar module manufacturer Heliene Inc. continues to onshore much of its supply chain, this week announcing a multi-year agree...

February 20, 2025
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Vikram Solar expanding solar manufacturing capacity in India

Vikram Solar Limited, one of India’s leading solar PV module manufacturers, just increased its manufacturing capacity with a 1 GW expa...

February 20, 2025
+ Storage survey results
Survey reveals BESS professionals are concerned about system reliability

Battery analytics software provider TWAICE, published results of an industry survey of battery energy storage system (BESS) professionals, t...

February 20, 2025
News EVerest-public-charging-standard
NEMA publishes EV to grid export permitting standard

NEMA announced the publication of its Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) Power Export Permitting Standard, defining the technica...

February 20, 2025
+ Storage Yotta Energy picture
Yotta Block is both a battery and ballast block for...

Yotta Energy is the battery company that’s zeroed in on solar panel-level energy storage with its flagship SolarLEAF product. Over the...

February 20, 2025
Mounting Guide GAF Energy Timberline
GAF Energy’s nailable Timberline Solar shingle is now 23% more...

GAF Energy, the solar business unit of renowned roofing company GAF, is launching the 2.0 version of their Timberline Solar shingle, which s...

February 19, 2025
Financing solar financing spotlight funding piggy bank panels
White Pine Renewables inks deal for projects in Calif. |...

In the latest edition of the Solar Financing Spotlight, we look at White Pine Renewables closing of a loan to fund two solar projects in Cal...

February 18, 2025
News The Pitch SiteCapture
Video: Avoiding solar site photo errors with SiteCapture | The...

Time is money, but so are the errors that result from working too fast. Kamal Shah, CEO of SiteCapture, went on The Pitch to explain how sol...

February 17, 2025
News solar rebates north carolina
This SEIA-backed residential solar panel recycling pilot program in N.C....

Solar panel recycling in the United States is starting to come into its own. Many larger scale developers have signed agreements with emergi...

February 17, 2025
News trophy for awards
Check out the EnergySage Installers of the Year

Solar installers have faced their share of challenges in recent years, with shifting market conditions and evolving policies impacting busin...

February 17, 2025
Solar Trackers PV Hardware U.S. manufacturing domestic content PVH
PV Hardware grows U.S. manufacturing capabilities for solar solutions 

PV Hardware is upping its U.S.-based manufacturing operations to incorporate 100% domestically produced components for solar tracking and fo...

February 13, 2025