Survey finds 26% of battery storage systems have fire detection and suppression issues
The Clean Energy Associate’s survey also found 18% of the energy storage systems had issues with the thermal management system.
Puerto Rico program to bring low-cost solar and batteries to 30,000 households
Applications open February 22 for the DOE’s Solar Access Program for eligible single family homeowners in Puerto Rico.
Sunrise brief: RE+ Northeast 2024 shines in Boston
Also on the rise: Large-format solar modules and legacy assumptions. Update on Puerto Rico solar market. And more.
NREL paper details nationwide heat-pump feasibility
The report looks at how installation costs and energy savings prices change in relation to climate, heating source and type of home and suggests that policymakers further reduce the costs of installing heat pumps so that more U.S. households can benefit from them.
Puerto Rico distributed solar climbs to 680 MW, residential storage to 1.6 GWh
While distributed solar and storage are advancing quickly in Puerto Rico, utility-scale solar and storage procurements ordered by Puerto Rico regulators in 2020 have made little progress.
RE+ Northeast 2024 shines in Boston
The largest and longest running of the RE+ regional conferences, this year it’s bigger than ever, having outgrown its previous space and now filling a hall in the Boston Convention Center.
Debunking solar myths: All panels come from China
Part One of Dan Shugar’s series on replacing fiction with facts about solar, when the proverbial Uncle Bob comes to dinner.
Hawaii legislation seeks to undo “massive momentum killer” for rooftop solar
After passing a new solar-battery export program that has sparked the ire of rooftop solar advocates, legislators have submitted a bill that would increase payment for battery-tied exported solar production.
Longroad’s largest solar project to begin commercial operations in mid-2025
Sun Streams 4 is a 377 MW solar facility 1200MWh battery energy storage system in Arizona.
North Carolina appeals court weighs critical rooftop solar decision
Environmental advocates appealed a cut to rooftop solar generation exports, arguing that utility Duke Energy ignored the benefits of customer-sited solar in its internal analysis of net metering rates.
