Job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities, and energy transition finance.

Also on the rise: Large format modules are gaining market share and presenting a new set of challenges, Honeywell and Duke will jointly test a flow battery, and Sunnova will offer EV charging through a partnership with ChargePoint.

The patents cover shingled solar modules and a process for separating pv strips from solar cells for use in shingled solar modules.

The two plan to embed ChargePoint software in customers’ Sunnova portal to help optimize car charging with other home energy demands.

Also on the rise: SEIA fires back at A-SMACC’s antidumping tariff request, and Enphase launches a microinverter line for microgrids.

In a 138-page rebuttal to a petition for anti-dumping tariffs, the trade group insisted that the solar industry would miss out on 46,000 jobs by 2023 if tariffs were put in place.

Also on the rise: Facebook signs a PPA for 160 MW in Virginia, and the solar sector provided jobs to 231,000 in the U.S. in 2020.

Chester Solar will be built near Richmond by co-developers D.E. Shaw and Torch Clean Energy.

Also on the rise: Ohio officials approve more utility-scale solar, SCE will add 2,150 MWh of energy storage, and large format modules are headed for standardization in a move driven by a Chinese trade group.

The deal includes more than 800 MW of solar and solar+storage in four states.