Norwegian vertical solar specialist Over Easy Solar has installed its first rooftop vertical solar installation in the U.S. market. The 100 kW system, combined with a green roof in New York, is expected to deliver around 120,000 kWh annually depending on factors including albedo, azimuth and local shadowing.

The 7.1 MW Jordan Rd 2 project funding announcement comes nearly one month after similar news about the company’s 7 MW Jordan Rd 1 project. Both installations will operate as community solar facilities following construction.

An international study has demonstrated that utility-scale solar PV paired with hydraulic hydro storage (HHS) could reach an LCOE as low as $0.022/kWh in select U.S. regions. The system could provide GWh-scale, cost-competitive, and highly reliable long-duration storage, capable of powering large commercial districts with minimal environmental impact.

Researchers in Morocco analyzed cybersecurity challenges in smart grids, highlighting AI-driven detection and defense strategies against threats like distributed denial-of-service, false data injection replay, and IoT-based attacks. They recommend multi-layered protections, real-time anomaly detection, secure IoT devices, and staff training to enhance resilience and safeguard power system operations.

A study funded by NextEra Energy projects that Louisiana’s annual solar deployment will decline from 2028 through 2030 due to expiring tax credits and then rise steadily through 2035, with associated employment impacts and tax revenues for local communities.

Company statements in the filing indicate it will seek an arrangement between itself and creditors that may allow it to survive “as a going concern.”

New research from the University of New South Wales shows that PV module degradation varies widely with system design and location, driven by UV exposure, temperature, humidity, and atmospheric conditions. Tropical and desert regions face the highest stress, highlighting the need for climate-specific testing and system design.

Median solar module pricing in the United States reached $0.28 per watt as the market adjusted to intensified trade enforcement and new Foreign Entity of Concern compliance requirements, according to the Q1 2026 Quarterly Pricing & Domestic Content Report from Anza.

SOSV-backed Qnetic is aiming to raise $20 million in 2026. Over the next two years it will work with the National Lab of the Rockies and other partners on field testing and validating its technology across multiple use cases.

The United States is at a critical inflection point where speed to deployment of energy technologies contributes to economic strength and energy security, but policy certainty is paramount, according to a panel of three solar manufacturing experts.

Older storage and renewables might be incentivized to add grid stability services in Texas if current plans continue with a $25 million program.

Aurora Energy Research has found that energy storage is raising the value of negatively priced solar electricity by up to $42 per MWh in the CAISO wholesale market.

Two groups allege that utilities are blocking virtual power plant aggregators from accessing the meter data they need to provide a VPP. The groups call for using antitrust law to “pry open” VPP markets.

The company says it can save the majority of Texans money by leveraging its fleet of home batteries to offer “all-in” rates between 13.2 and 15.7 cents per kWh.

Arizona’s Energy Promise Taskforce released 31 recommendations calling for the accelerated deployment of virtual power plants and distributed solar to meet a projected 40% increase in peak demand.

New York is facing a dual crisis of energy affordability and bottlenecks to new generation interconnection. The New York Public Service Commission can take action to make affordable technologies available to New Yorkers.

Scientists in Australia claim that TOPCon cells are rapidly closing the open-circuit voltage gap with heterojunction counterparts, now under 10 mV, while offering greater wafer tolerance and high industrial scalability. Despite slightly lower efficiency, TOPCon-based perovskite/silicon tandems can achieve a levelized cost of energy comparable to heterojunction-based tandems due to reduced fabrication costs, according to the researchers.

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came from better cell architectures, improved passivation schemes, and optimization of semiconductor performance. That framing was accurate for a long time.  As photovoltaic technologies approach their theoretical efficiency limits and global manufacturing capacity reaches unprecedented scale, […]

Robotic Terafab system and integration of PlantPredict with PowerUQ lean into new technologies.

SolarEdge has outlined a transition pathway to integrated 800 V (DC) infrastructure for data centers, arguing that legacy alternating current (AC) systems introduce inefficiencies that could constrain the growth of AI workloads. It says rising compute demand and next-gen NVIDIA GPUs are increasing urgency, while data centers lose an estimated 10% to 30% of input power through multiple conversion stages.