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Recent solar industry shakeup shines light on what works and what doesn’t

Major residential solar businesses have gone bankrupt. Which strategies work, and which ones fail?

Building not your average dream home: Waiting for … Approved

In this series outlining the process of building a truly sustainable home, much has happened while waiting for a building permit… and the building is set to begin.

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Sunrise brief: Solar-plus-storage dominating future U.S. power grid

Also on the rise: Hydrogen-powered data center planned for Texas. Solar module manufacturer closes $50 million tax credit transfer. And more.

California transportation terminal retrofits energy storage to its solar carports

Energy Toolbase and Stellar Solar implemented an advanced energy management system for the Mira Loma transportation campus.

Solar-plus-storage dominating future U.S. power grid

A report from Berkeley Lab reveals a significant expansion of solar-plus-storage facilities in the U.S. power plant market, highlighting an evolution from frequency to arbitrage and curtailment mitigation markets. The best is yet to come, as ongoing price decreases are still being absorbed by the market and are already being used to fill the interconnection queues with terrawatts of capacity.

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Solar module manufacturer closes $50 million tax credit transfer

Heliene will use the investment on its existing and planned U.S. solar cell and module manufacturing facilities.

APsystems unveils home solar and energy storage power control system

The new power control system (PCS) is designed to maximize capacity and storage integration with solar arrays.

Hydrogen-powered data center planned for Texas

California-based data center developer ECL is incorporating hydrogen fuel cells and battery storage into its projects to enable a completely self-contained generating capacity, even to the point of being grid free.

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CIP acquires 1 GWh Arizona battery, BrightNight announces 800 MWh Washington project

Two grid-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) announcements in the United States have highlighted the move by utilities to use energy storage to balance their networks and cope with the inexorable advance of renewables.

The significance of state-of-charge in energy storage

Everoze Partner Nithin Rajavelu considers the crucial importance of properly measuring and managing battery state-of-charge (SoC) for the efficiency, longevity, and safety of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, especially in lithium ferro-phosphate (LFP) devices, which are widely used for large-scale storage.

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