Commercial operation reached for twin 200 MWh BESS sites supporting ERCOT’s rapidly growing power demand.

A record year, and an incredibly strong outlook for the energy storage sector.

Polk County approved a project that is expected to offset 25% of the jail’s energy consumption and save taxpayers $3 million over its lifespan.

As the Illinois Shines program approaches 4 GW of approved capacity, it’s offering a closer look at one special traditional community solar installation with agrivoltaic and pollinator-friendly attributes.

Salt River Project and NextEra Energy Resources have signed a power purchase agreement for 3,000 MW of solar to be built in Arizona through 2027.

The $200 million investment will bring the company’s total domestic production capacity to 6 GW by late 2026.

CEA’s 2026 manufacturing quality report finds that yield rates vary widely based on the age of solar module assembly facilities, with mature Chinese firms nearing 100% and U.S. outlier facilities ranging all the way down to 30%.

Propelled by a select group of high-capacity manufacturers including T1 Energy and Canadian Solar, Texas is set to exceed 15 GW of solar PV module production in 2026, accounting for nearly half of all U.S. silicon-based manufacturing and serving as the primary hub for the inaugural Solar Manufacturing USA conference in Austin this September.

The Portland, Tennessee “Mega Facility” consolidates three existing sites and marks a $30 million investment in domestic solar and energy storage supply chains.

The California-based nonprofit, backed by a $28 million state energy commission grant, aims to provide an open-access pilot manufacturing line for battery startups to scale their technologies without the need to raise massive amounts of capital.

The 8th annual Solar Risk Assessment from kWh Analytics identifies equipment-driven fires, regulator fines, and battery inaccuracies as the latest threats to renewable asset returns.

The companies say their solutions combine to provide asset owners with both rapid insights into emergent issues and long-term benefits from scheduled inspections, delivering a “continuous feedback loop” in which data gathered by autonomous drone inspections helps to optimize operational algorithms in the tracker software.

A white paper explores how forward-thinking state policymakers and solar developers are moving beyond traditional property tax structures to embrace contractual legal tools that provide both long term regulatory certainty and tangible infrastructure improvements for host communities.

With the passage of SB 540, New Hampshire has become the seventh state in the U.S. where lawmakers have sent bills to their respective governor’s desks.

The Interstate Renewable Energy Council offers a free online course designed to prepare job seekers to enter clean energy jobs through Registered Apprenticeship pathways.

Amazon has conducted a six-month field trial of a rooftop heat pump system developed by U.S. startup Transaera at one of its logistics facilities. The system uses metal–organic framework (MOF)–based dehumidification to remove moisture from outdoor air before cooling.

U.S. researchers have developed an IR-CW laser-based method to remove backsheets from end-of-life silicon solar modules without damaging the glass or wafers, using controlled heating of the silicon–EVA interface through the front glass. The process enables clean mechanical delamination with preserved device performance and offers a lower-energy, lower-cost alternative to conventional thermal or chemical recycling methods.

Faced with an increasingly congested grid and skyrocketing energy demands, data center developers are shifting toward solar-plus-storage as a logistically viable, essential solution for securing reliable power on a market-ready timetable.

The OFW Solar Project in Virginia submitted an application to connect to powerlines run by the wrong power company, instead of a second set of nearby transmission lines, necessitating a total restart of the PJM interconnection process that could push construction back to 2032.

Much more community solar could be built in upstate and western New York to bring solar bill savings to more customers, if utilities offered flexible interconnection as an option for solar developers, NY SEIA has projected. Retail battery storage hosting capacity could more than double in ConEdison territory with flexible interconnection, the group said.