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How real estate financing can keep projects moving in 2026

Solar developers are leveraging land assets to bypass financing bottlenecks and secure critical safe-harbor status ahead of the 2026 deadline.
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California introduces bill to legalize plug-in balcony solar

The legislation would reclassify small-scale solar devices as household appliances to bypass utility interconnection requirements and permitting fees.
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Exus Renewables secures $400 million credit facility to fund 4.5 GW pipeline

The capital will fund development expenditures for solar, wind, and battery storage projects across North America.
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Connect with Europe’s energy storage leaders at the Battery Business & Development Forum 2026 in Frankfurt (March 31–April 1) and gain insights into evolving business models, financing strategies, and market trends

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Three massive grid-scale battery projects move ahead in Texas, California

Texas and California lead the latest energy storage surge with SolarMax and Spearmint advancing major projects, a Texas developer securing 10 GWh for data centers, and Ormat and Terra-gen commissioning 655 MWh of new capacity.
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Quilt launches 3-zone ductless heat pump for residential applications

U.S. startup Quilt has introduced a new three-zone ductless heat pump for residential use, offering independent temperature control across three areas with a single outdoor unit. The system uses R32 (difluoromethane) as the refrigerant and can reportedly...
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Technology

Big Tech turns to solar and storage to bypass grid bottlenecks

Data center developers are co-locating generation and storage to avoid interconnection queues, as the traditional grid is failing to meet power requirements of generative AI, said a report from Wood Mackenzie.
Manufacturing

TOYO secures U.S. polysilicon to navigate solar trade barriers

The agreement establishes a dual-source supply chain to support regulatory compliance for TOYO’s solar manufacturing operations in Ethiopia and the United States.
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Island BESS: 400 MWh of batteries for Puerto Rico, first standalone project in Hawaii

Construction is underway on two projects with a cumulative capacity of 400 MWh in Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, Hawaiian Electric has broken ground on a 160 MWh project – the island’s first of its kind.

Press Releases

Data Center Reliability Comes Home: FranklinWH Earns TIA-942 Certification

FranklinWH has set a new global benchmark for home energy reliability by becoming the world's first residential battery system to earn TIA-942 Rated 1-4 certification, the same data-center standard trusted for always-on infrastructure. The certification independently verifies enterprise-grade resiliency, redundancy, and UPS-level power delivery, bringing proven data-center reliability into the home.

Voltage Energy Secures Industry’s First Full-System 2kV EBOS Certification from UL Solutions

Chapel Hill, December 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ ——- In December 2025, UL Solutions awarded Voltage Energy Group (“Voltage Energy”) a certification for its full-system electrical balance of system (EBOS) solution for 2kV photovoltaic (PV) cable applications covering the LYNX®, IBEX®, IBEX PLUS®, and ALEX® product series to UL 9703.

Solesca Launches ARGUS 1.0 AI Auto-Obstruction Detection Feature

Solesca is launching a AI auto-obstruction detection feature

Stewart Glass: The First U.S. Solar Glass Facility

Stewart Glass is establishing the first fully operational solar glass facility in the United States, opening March 2026 in Logan, Ohio. Producing 150 tons per day of 3.

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Energy Vault begins construction on 150 MW storage project in Texas

The SOSA Energy Center is the first project to break ground under the company’s Asset Vault investment platform.

Michigan flips the switch on 250 MW Muskegon Solar project built on repurposed wastewater land

The project is developed on an active municipal wastewater drain field. It leverages First Solar bifacial modules and a dedicated 138-kV interconnection.

California water district plans up to 21 GW of solar on land fallowed due to water shortages

A water district serving the western San Joaquin Valley has established a long-term blueprint for developing solar, storage and transmission on lands that “can no longer sustain irrigated agriculture.”

U.S. market on course to hit 737.8 GW of solar by 2035

GlobalData’s latest analysis says the U.S. will add between 41 GW and 52 GW of solar annually until 2035.

New York program to deploy solar on previously developed sites yields 12 MW in five years

New York State’s Build-Ready program, designed to clear hurdles to solar or storage deployment on previously developed sites, has faced challenges well beyond the expiration of tax credits under the OBBBA tax and spending law, according to a program review.

Solar success in the New England marketplace

ReVision Energy leverages a relationship-driven model and workforce innovation to navigate evolving clean energy policies and sustain long-term growth across New England.

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T1 Energy completes $160 million sale of production tax credits

The transaction involves Section 45X credits generated from solar module manufacturing through December 2025.

Trina Solar completes sale of 5 GW U.S. module plant to T1 Energy

Trina Solar has completed the sale of its 5 GW US solar module factory to T1 Energy, exiting direct manufacturing while retaining a minority equity stake.

T1 Energy announces 900 MW U.S. solar module supply deal with Treaty Oak Clean Energy

The company signed a three-year deal to supply solar modules assembled from its U.S.-manufactured solar cells.

Awendio Solaris plans multi-gigawatt solar manufacturing hub in Canada

Awendio Solaris says it plans to invest about CAD 1 billion ($726.7 million) in a vertically integrated solar cell and module manufacturing facility and research center in Montreal, Quebec, targeting the Canadian and U.S. markets.

Ford axes Lightning EV Truck, pivots to $2 billion grid-scale storage manufacturing

Ford announced it will move on from its electric vehicle trucks, instead producing hybrid vehicles and manufacturing grid-scale energy storage for the rapidly growing datacenter market as well as an entry to residential energy storage.

Waaree secures 288 MW hail-resilient module order for Texas utility-scale solar projects

Sabanci Renewables agreed to purchase hail-resilient modules produced by Waaree Solar Americas for two utility-scale solar projects.

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Sunrun and HASI close $500 million distributed energy joint venture

The partnership aims to finance 300 MW of residential solar and storage capacity across 40,000 home power plants.

California reclaims authority to move stalled Soda Mountain solar project toward approval

The California Energy Commission recommended the approval of the Soda Mountain Solar Project, officially fast-tracking the long-delayed project that was stuck at the local level through a state-led permitting process.

Huawei, Sungrow lead Wood Mackenzie’s inverter market ranking

Wood Mackenzie’s first-half 2025 solar inverter ranking finds the top 10 leading inverter manufacturers have a 71% global market share.

Nofar USA wins bid to acquire solar assets of bankrupt Pine Gate Renewables

The $285 million acquisition of utility-scale assets follows a Chapter 11 filing by the major North Carolina developer as it navigates a restructuring process for its development pipeline.

Google acquires clean energy developer Intersect Power for nearly $5 billion

Google is set to acquire the solar and storage developer, arming itself with the tools to bypass grid bottlenecks and build the projects that will power its AI datacenters.

Early Solar forecast: First half 2026 solar irradiance outlook

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that early 2026 will bring mixed solar conditions globally, with strong prospects in eastern Australia and eastern China, but cloudier-than-normal outlooks for much of Europe, Asia, and parts of the US early in the year.

Technology

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ERCOT outperformed on interconnection in 2024 likely due to “connect and manage”

More than 25 GW of large-scale generating projects seeking an interconnection agreement in the ERCOT grid region reached that stage in 2024. Berkeley Lab said ERCOT’s “connect and manage” approach “is likely one reason” for the grid operator’s success.

2026 National Electrical Code changes: PCS and EMS part 1

The 2026 National Electrical Code (NEC) introduces a significant shift in electrical design by prioritizing real-time power flow over traditional, often oversized, theoretical worst-case calculations. This evolution centers on the formal distinction between two critical technologies: Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Power Control Systems (PCS), which is explored in part one of this two-part series.

Colorado utility PSCo must offer flexible interconnection for community solar, storage

Flexible interconnection is one of the most impactful, cost-effective tools for enabling distributed energy resource deployment, said a joint filing by the Solar Energy Industries Association and others.

What happens when utilities raise the fixed charge and lower the energy charge?

Shifting utility costs from usage rates to fixed monthly fees may penalize efficiency and fail to provide the financial incentive necessary to drive widespread electrification.

Rural electric co-ops form engineering group to evaluate smart inverter standards

Smart inverters enable more distributed solar to be added to the grid, and some rural co-ops are evaluating smart inverter standards as more co-op members become prosumers.

Solar-plus-storage VPPs must be ‘indistinguishable’ from peakers to win over grid operators, says EnergyHub

A EnergyHub report lays out what it will take for dispatchers to treat VPPs like conventional power plants.

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