The Houston, Texas-based retail energy provider’s PowerShift Business plan aligns lower prices with common operating hours, while the All-Business plan offers a standard flat rate.

The company’s vertically-integrated offering unites its manufactured products, financing, installation support and long-term monitoring in a single package for U.S. homebuilders and buyers.

The companies say their integrated software platforms will provide solar installers with a way to offer a holistic customer experience that carries through all parts of the solar sales and installation process, and beyond.

The three-part report series from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to guide community leaders and developers through the complex legal and regulatory hurdles that often stall the development of local microgrid projects across the United States.

The all-new Solar Permitting Scorecard grades all 50 states on how well they support straightforward residential solar permitting. The report finds that bureaucratic barriers significantly increase costs in all states, with only two states managing to earn a “B” grade.

The company’s fourth annual snapshot report highlights an industry transitioning from incentive-driven growth to a focus on affordability and resilience. Third-party ownership is becoming the preferred financing method as consumer concerns over upfront costs and policy changes reshape the residential market.

The annual training conference saw nearly 900 attendees participate in more than 80 training sessions, enjoy several themed events and connect with friends new and old from solar companies around the country.

Facing applications for new data center capacity that represent a greater total demand than ComEd’s all-time peak, the Illinois Commerce Commission approved a plan to require data center projects to make larger deposits to cover the cost of grid upgrades and ordered an investigation into other methods of protecting utility ratepayers against footing the bill for data center load growth.

The report authors contend such devices — which are designed to protect firefighters while they work around rooftop solar installations — actually add significant risk by increasing installation complexity and multiplying potential points of failure by a factor of two to three.

The tool aims to help installers streamline and improve quality control by analyzing the large volume of jobsite documentation they create every day and verifying project compliance in real time.