SOMO Village, a $1 billion mixed-use community in Rohnert Park, CA., is adding another 2,500 solar panels plus storage to reach a new total of 3.1 MW of PV; this third PV expansion is being supplied by REC Solar, along with an initial 1 MW of storage supplied by Green Charge.

NEXTracker achieves #1 global solar tracker market share with 24 percent of the global share and 5 GW delivered, according to GTM Research.

Green Charge Networks has won a contract award from New York utility Con Edison to deliver 13 megawatt hours for Con Edison’s Brooklyn-Queens Neighborhood Program.

Fronius is launching its Smart Meter to manage PV feed-in limits and monitor energy consumption.

Move over Elon. Mercedes-Benz Energy Americas has entered the wide-open U.S. EV+storage — or just storage — market, cherry-picking former sonnen USA CEO Boris von Bormann to lead the charge.

Younicos, Xcel Energy, and Panasonic North America will collaborate on a 1MW storage system linked to 2 MW of solar at Panasonic’s Denver operations hub within the NEXT smart city development.

Sun Action Trackers (SAT), based in San Antonio, Texas has finalized UL 3703 certification for its PST-1AX6 single axis tracker, including the tracker’s self-healing MAC Steel (magnesium alloy coated steel) coating.

San Diego-based iDemand Energy Storage (iDES3) already has sold $15 million worth of its lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4)-based energy storage systems since the company was launched in August.

Conspicuous solar: Getting the public to embrace solar energy has never been a straightforward task, but as the technology moves past its awkward teen phase, some genuinely impressive and innovative adaptations of solar PV are beginning to turn heads.

NEXTracker recently sent us a photo of its trackers standing unharmed in a small lake of water delivered by Hurricane Matthew, emphasizing the point that rigorous wind testing is good for the solar industry.