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Perovskite tandem provider Swift Solar to explore telecom tower integration

The MIT/Stanford spinoff announced a collaboration with American Tower Corporation to evaluate high energy density solar panels for telecom towers.

Flexible transmission allocation would allow Western solar projects to proceed

Enabling renewable projects in the Pacific Northwest to obtain flexible transmission rights could help states reduce electricity costs and meet renewables targets, suggests a report. The approach could also have utility in most of the West.

Grid operator SPP partners with Hitachi to speed interconnection studies

The partnership aims to reduce interconnection study times by 80%, to address SPP’s portion of a national bottleneck of 2,500 GW of solar, wind and storage projects awaiting interconnection.

Solar power curtailment rises in California

Curtailment – or intentional reduction in power production – continues to rise for both solar and wind power in California.

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Solar opportunity as datacenter electricity demand expected to triple in five years

LandGate said as of Q1 2025 datacenters in the U.S. use 200 TWh of electricity annually, up from 147 TWh in 2023, and demand is expected to continue to accelerate.

‘Cybersecurity is a real problem, but the Reuters report should be taken with a grain of salt’

pv magazine spoke with Garikoitz Sarriegi, senior project manager at Kiwa PI Berlin Ibérica, about the Reuters report published on Wednesday that devices susceptible to spying and sabotage had been found in inverters and batteries from China.

Connecticut agency launches online solar project siting tool

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s online is designed to support more efficient siting and permitting for solar projects.

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Hidden devices found in Chinese-made inverters in the U.S., reports Reuters

U.S. officials are reassessing the risks posed by Chinese-made devices in renewable energy infrastructure according to news agency. Reuters cites two unnamed sources “familiar with the matter.”

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U.S. renewables developers face daunting grid interconnection queues

Many grid operators are overwhelmed by projects, according to a report by Enverus.

Quantum-based energy management method for PV-powered buildings

Scientists from Cornell University combined quantum computing with model predictive control to manage the energy of two PV-equipped university buildings. Compared to deterministic approaches, the quantum strategy achieved a 6.8% improvement in energy efficiency and an annual reduction of 41.2% in carbon emissions.

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