Markets & Policy

Residential solar installation price declines have accelerated over the past year. However, energy storage pricing has gone up, with Enphase taking an increasingly larger share of the market.

The 4.5 MW Linden Hawk Rise project is among the first awarded capacity under the first year of the state’s Community Solar Energy Pilot Program.

Also starting up: Dutch two-seat solar EV for ride sharing, and French company Supersola releases a plug-and-play solar module.

A report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looks at residential and non-residential distributed solar+storage markets and finds big growth with a huge future potential.

Also on the rise: comment period opens for 1 GW solar and storage in the California desert, Xos unveils a mobile EV fleet charging station, and voters in the west support a clean energy standard.

President Joe Biden’s proposed Clean Electricity Standard received bipartisan support among voters in Colorado and Arizona, states that have already enacted their own standards.

The mandate would require many new commercial buildings, along with high-rise residential projects, to have solar power and battery storage.

The cells will be used in Powin’s Stack360 storage product, with the first units slated for delivery in later this year.

The company offers a portable charging trailer for commercial electric fleets, providing power without making fixed infrastructure upgrades.

Rich Road Solar is an EDF Renewables-proposed project that would begin construction in late 2023, and it joins a large pipeline of New York proposals and approved projects by EDF.