As the Illinois Shines program approaches 4 GW of approved capacity, it’s offering a closer look at one special traditional community solar installation with agrivoltaic and pollinator-friendly attributes.

Salt River Project and NextEra Energy Resources have signed a power purchase agreement for 3,000 MW of solar to be built in Arizona through 2027.

The U.S. clean energy sector set a blistering pace in 2025, with utility-scale solar, wind, and energy storage accounting for 91% of all new power capacity added to the domestic grid.

New federal data shows solar and battery assets will comprise nearly 80% of all new utility-scale power additions planned for the U.S. electric grid this year.

The state agency has launched its tenth annual solicitation for Tier 1 Renewable Energy Certificates, seeking proposals from mature wind, solar and hydroelectric facilities, with a focus on eligible projects seeking to access expiring federal tax credits.

The Portland, Tennessee “Mega Facility” consolidates three existing sites and marks a $30 million investment in domestic solar and energy storage supply chains.

The California-based nonprofit, backed by a $28 million state energy commission grant, aims to provide an open-access pilot manufacturing line for battery startups to scale their technologies without the need to raise massive amounts of capital.

The upcoming Solar Manufacturing USA 2026 conference in Austin will focus on real U.S. solar manufacturing progress, shifting attention from capacity announcements to actual production, costs, yields, and technology choices across the full value chain. It will also examine how policy changes and tariffs are driving domestic expansion in ingots, wafers, cells, and modules, while highlighting competing technologies like back contact, heterojunction and TOPCon.

ESS Tech is complementing its iron flow storage offering, which is engeeneered for the 8–24 hour long-duration segment, with sodium-ion battery products aimed at short and medium-duration applications.

The announcement of the company’s latest module power electronics project came alongside Q1 2026 earnings that showed a 20.6% decrease in year-over-year revenue numbers amid a steep decline in domestic demand.

Bolstered by a sixth consecutive quarter of margin expansion and a stabilizing U.S. footprint, the inverter giant is pivoting toward its Nexis platform and AI data-center power solutions.

While the nation’s leading residential solar-plus-storage provider reported a mixed Q1 2026, management reiterated its full-year outlook, emphasizing a “margin of safety” strategy amid broader industry volatility.

The Texas-based solar distributor says the 76,000 square-foot Reno facility will serve DIY and B2B buyers from its distribution center and retail storefront, shortening shipping time and reducing freight costs for west coast customers.

Renew Risk has launched a catastrophe modeling tool designed to help insurers and reinsurers price the financial risks of severe convective storms for utility-scale solar assets.

A new report from Intertek CEA suggests that while U.S. inverter demand will grow at a 6% CAGR through 2028, developers face a tightening regulatory environment driven by “Foreign Entity of Concern” (FEOC) rules and cybersecurity mandates.

Sense and ev.energy open windows on ratepayer and utility sides of distributed energy resource management.

The 1.6 MW Nexus pilot project in California has demonstrated that solar panels installed over irrigation canals can significantly reduce water evaporation and algae growth by 85%, while also showing operational efficiency.

The May 1 go-live of the Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM) marks the first time Western utilities can coordinate large-scale solar and storage resources 24 hours in advance, a move projected to significantly slash curtailment and boost regional reliability.

Researchers in Canada designed an air-source heat pump integrated with an air-based solar collector and radiant floor heating for cold climates, showing that the proposed system configuration could improve the coefficient of performance from 2–4 to 2–6 and reduce significantly annual energy consumption.

Grid operator PJM has reopened its standard interconnection process to new generation projects, after closing the standard process to new applicants in 2022 to completely clear its backlog.