The agreement follows negotiations with Vote Solar, the CLEO Institute, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, as more than 20,000 Duke Energy Florida customers are reported to behind on their electric bills.

The new capacity additions were brought forward to help the state recover from the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Also on the rise: Report sheds light on low- and moderate-income solar program performance, and renewables bucked a slump in U.S. energy production in 2020.

Community solar offers a unique opportunity for recovery in a Covid-racked economy, but needs to go beyond the contained role it has traditionally held in the American energy landscape.

It’s been a busy two months since Joe Biden became president. Here are highlights of key initiatives on the energy and cleantech fronts.

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Solar projects that support native grasses can sequester more carbon than cropland alone. And about all that corn for ethanol.

Also on the rise: Stem provides smart energy storage services to a Bay State project, solar leads in global power generation investment, and Agilitas Energy expands its storage footprint.

The agreement will lower program costs, simplify enrollment, and bring three community solar projects to historically underserved communities.

Homeowner associations and town councils can derail your solar project. So can dust from nearby factories and bivalve mollusks falling from the sky.

The annual publication from PV Evolution Labs shares results from solar panel stress tests focused on specified and verified bills of materials.

The 1.8 million-square-foot facility is projected to create 500 jobs and produce an enhanced thin film PV module for the utility-scale solar market in the U.S.

BNEF’s latest Electric Vehicle Outlook outlines the level of sales and investment needed in EVs, charging infrastructure, and batteries in order to achieve a net-zero future.

Also on the rise: Tesla’s solar roof factory in Buffalo: more EV and less roof? DOE outlines policies to create a domestic battery supply chain, FPL hits a solar milestone, and Connecticut moves closer to setting an energy storage goal.

The two companies will work together to deliver a safe, sustainable, and cost-effective lithium-ion battery recycling solution for end-of-life energy storage systems.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launches competition with awards for innovation in solar hardware and software.

The fire, which caused an estimated $500,000 in damages has been deemed to be the result of an issue with the solar system on the roof, according to the Susquehanna Hose Company.

pv magazine USA reports on-site for the first time in 15 months at the Solar and Energy Storage Northeast expo in Boston.

The company will use the expanded facility to post securities for PPAs and interconnection agreements with energy transmission networks.

Also on the rise: NB Power adds more solar in the Canadian Maritimes, Leyline Renewable finances solar in Washington, D.C., big cuts reported in CO2 emissions from power production, and Schlumberger and Panasonic partner on a novel lithium extraction process.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects must double every five years to achieve net zero, IHS Markit says in a new report.

Dubbed Gismo Power, the appliance is entirely mobile, can be grid-connected, and may be folded for storage.

The utility’s proposal is being introduced to support a statewide goal of having 80,000 zero-emission vehicles on the road by 2025.

Data show that the U.S. has more than 750 GWac of electricity generation capacity in interconnection queues, with 90% of that clean energy-related. But how much actually will be built?

The collector is built with a low-cost holographic optical element and a diffuser and can be easily embedded into conventional PV modules, according to its creators.