The Buckeye, Ariz. project is expected to generate enough electricity to power about 40,000 homes per year.

The rapid expansion is partially due to falling manufacturing costs, a trend that is expected to continue over the next five to seven years, said Rystad Energy.

The Darden Clean Energy Project, paired with 1.1 GW of solar, will provide enough electricity to power 850,000 homes for four hours.

Earthrise Energy, Redeux Energy Partners, and Geronimo Power announced project finance deals, portfolio investment, and the commercial operations of two projects, respectively.

AES Corp is working on the 1 GW solar plus 1 GW/4 GWh battery site under a 15-year deal for the online retailer and said it expects to complete construction of the second half of the project next year.

After acquiring the U.S. manufacturing assets of Trina Solar, Freyr Battery announced in February it was rebranding as T1 Energy and planned to produce both solar modules and cells in Texas.

Bila Solar is manufacturing ultra-lightweight solar modules and newly launched 550 W dual-glass conventional panels in its 157,000 square-foot Indianapolis facility.

The world’s largest suppliers of solar panels shipped 500 GW but revenues decreased significantly, said a report from Wood Mackenzie.

The deal represents the second order this month for more than 500 MW of solar modules. Plus, Waaree eyes the expansion of its solar manufacturing facility in Brookshire, Texas.

The new EcoRecycle facility, based in Cartersville, Georgia, will remove aluminum, glass, silver and copper from used solar modules and process them for re-use.

OneEthos launched a financing program that enables instant credit decision for commercial solar projects up to $350,000.

A new report from Bloom Energy found that data center developers severely underestimate utility power delays, lending greater importance to onsite generation.

The GOP-supported bill would have mandated community solar among its investor-owned utilities.

The Battery Bonus Connect Program, launched by Haven Energy and Clean Energy Alliance, intends to enroll up to 300 qualifying California households in virtual power plant program.

The Commonwealth issued a draft request for proposals of 1.5 GW of batteries with storage durations of 4 to 10 hours, primarily funded through the state’s Clean Peak Standard. The procurement is part of a broader effort to procure 5 GW of energy storage by 2030.

The MIT/Stanford spinoff announced a collaboration with American Tower Corporation to evaluate high energy density solar panels for telecom towers.

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance releases its quarterly community solar tracker, which updates capacity in states with formal programs that allow non-utility ownership.

Enabling renewable projects in the Pacific Northwest to obtain flexible transmission rights could help states reduce electricity costs and meet renewables targets, suggests a report. The approach could also have utility in most of the West.

Researchers have designed a novel multigeneration energy system that provides five outputs, namely electricity, hydrogen, cooling, heating, and hot water. The system is mainly powered by a solar heliostat system and incorporates compressed air and pumped hydro storage technologies for storing surplus power.

The partnership aims to reduce interconnection study times by 80%, to address SPP’s portion of a national bottleneck of 2,500 GW of solar, wind and storage projects awaiting interconnection.