Average home solar prices are $2.69 per watt, said EnergySage.

Minnesota jumped in state rankings for solar installations, in part due to Governor Walz’ leadership, and what he has promoted on the state level would add to Harris’ record on the national stage.

Also on the rise: DYCM Power announces $800 million U.S. solar cell and module factory. Nearly half U.S. households will have solar by 2050. And more.

Two projects that would store heat in firebricks for industrial use may receive federal funding, in part because the projects are deemed highly replicable.

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The company’s proprietary technology is enabling traditional lead-acid battery makers to offer what the company says are safe, sustainable and substantially higher-powered nickel-zinc batteries.

Tandem solar-cell technology featuring silicon has been widely researched but materials such as perovskites, paired with established thin-film solar or with other perovskite cells, are pointing to a new development path.

The Malahat Nation, from Canada’s British Columbia province, is building a factory that will assemble Taiwanese battery cells into 1 GWh per year of battery packs for use in homes and businesses.

The company introduced a hail-stow hanger, a hanger for north-south orientations, and rail system for clustered disconnect designs.

The joint venture announced a 2 GW facility with plans to expand up to 6 GW.

Designed for U.S. solar installations, the GEN24 Plus inverter enables users to connect their solar array to home energy storage.

As the largest energy conference in North America expanded beyond the Anaheim Convention Center, attendees explored auxiliary venues scattered across seven locations.

GE Vernova has developed a 2,000 V (DC) utility-scale inverter, to be used in a North American pilot operation starting in early 2025. The inverter offers up to 6.0 MVA of output power.

As part of the Solar Jobs Census, IREC conducted a series of interviews and found that companies are seeking workers through partnerships through high schools and vocational schools and they’re using a number of strategies to increase the diversity of the workforce.

Firebrick heat storage technology, not batteries, will be used to store energy for industrial process heat in a 100% renewable energy system, says a study out of Stanford University.

Developed by a Chinese research group, the novel refrigerant is made of a mixture of carbon dioxide (CO2) and a non-flammable hydrofluoroolefin. It has slightly higher costs compared to conventional compounds, but its creators claims these costs could be significantly reduced with large-scale industrial production.

ICF report says retiring legacy fossil fuel plants will be more challenging.

Scientists have proposed a new system that uses surplus PV energy in the spring and the autumn to charge up underground thermal energy storage for later use in the summer and winter. They have simulated it on a school facility in Seoul, with a few optional configurations for thermal storage. Power savings were up to 39%.

As a grid operator works to automate its phase 1 study process for interconnecting solar, storage and other generating projects, the firm developing the automation software says the study process will take just one day.

Solar and storage systems smaller than 50 kW would receive an interconnection agreement instantly when requesting one, under 2030 targets in a draft Department of Energy roadmap.