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Amid skill shortages, companies continue to outsource solar maintenance

About half of more than 400 surveyed original equipment manufacturers, technicians and installers said they are using external partners for their solar maintenance.

Utility profits grow along with anti-rooftop solar action

The Center for Biodiversity evaluated six investor-owned utilities for recent activities, earnings and demonstrated attitude toward distributed clean energy.

Experimental EV battery charges in 10 minutes in sub-zero temperatures

U.S. scientists have developed a lithium-ion battery for electric vehicles that enables high range and fast charging in cold weather. The battery uses a single-ion conducting glassy solid electrolyte coating and does not require changes to chemistries or production processes.

Watch: Solar electric vehicle completes 300-mile journey through U.S. Southwest

The pre-production vehicle from Aptera offers up to 40 miles of charge-free range per day from its 700 W of solar power, said the company.

Thin-film solar patents, manufacturing equipment listed for sale

A cancelled factory led to the sale. The solar cells produced by the equipment are “game-changing tech at liquidation values,” said the seller.

Solar-plus-storage for extreme low temperatures

Scientists in the United States have created a testing platform for energy harvesting in solar-plus-storage systems under extreme temperatures ranging from -180 C to 300 C.

Inlyte Energy moves toward U.S. manufacturing of iron-sodium batteries

The startup’s collaboration with the Swiss company, Horien Salt Battery Solutions, is set to accelerate the commercialization of its low-cost, long-duration energy storage technology.

California solar on canals initiative moves forward

The California Solar Canal Initiative project aims to use information gained in a University of California, Merced study and begin to identify communities willing to generate electricity with solar arrays over their canals.

Designing a Dyson sphere using photovoltaic modules

A photovoltaic Dyson sphere is a theoretical megastructure that could provide vast amounts of energy for interstellar space travel and large-scale technological endeavors.

Federal regulator recommends using automation to speed interconnection

A FERC commissioner said that automation software took just ten days to reproduce an interconnection cluster study for renewables projects that had taken two years of human labor to complete. He said he hopes to meet soon with grid operators to discuss interconnection automation.

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