Despite a less than stellar earnings report, First Solar continues to expand with new manufacturing planned along with dedicated R&D facility to increase learning and reduce downtime on commercial production lines.

The redox flow battery dubbed GridStar Flow is intended to help protect the installation during emergency situations.

As part of Aurora Solar’s Empower 2022 online solar summit, Bernadette Del Chiaro, from the California Solar & Storage Association, will moderate a talk about electric utilities and how they have abused their monopoly position to discriminate against solar in the U.S. Here, she gives pv magazine a taste of the presentation.

A study published in Nature finds that a globalized supply chain of solar saved countries $67 billion in solar module production costs.

Rising electric rates, grid instability, environmental concerns and decreased solar costs are all reasons for homeowners to go solar, according to a study by Rocket Solar.

Sunnova SunSafe  solar + storage systems generated a total of nearly 2 GWh of energy total with 3.4 million hours of aggregate back-up power, or an average of 128 hours of power generated per household.

An 83-foot building with 120 solar modules uses SolarEdge optimizers to overcome shading from neighboring buildings.

The software offers tools to apply the many incentives in the IRA throughout the modeling process.

Solar, wind, geothermal, energy storage and other projects from 5 MW to 80 MW are encouraged to submit proposals.

Albemarle’s plans include the development of both the lithium concentrator and the mega-flex conversion facility, the proposed reopening of the Kings Mountain mine, and an active expansion of the Silver Peak facility.