Canada is on track to deploy more solar in 2025 than it did in 2024, according to the Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA), with behind-the-meter installations having a particularly active year to date.

Many states made steady gains in community solar capacity last quarter while other states fought for the ability to have community solar capacity.

A democratically organized nonprofit is giving a seat at the clean energy table to 36 communities in Western Fresno County.

Solar represented 75% of grid capacity additions in the first half, followed distantly by wind and natural gas, said new data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

A marketplace report on the first half of 2025 reveals that median loan rates for residential solar projects climbed to 7.5%, with 38% of surveyed contractors saying loan demand decreased.

America’s battery factory buildout hinges on experienced operating teams.

Avaada Electro, the solar manufacturing arm of Avaada Group is presenting its n-type G12, G12R and M10L tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar modules at the RE+ 2025 trade show in Las Vegas.

New solar panels, battery energy storage systems, factory announcements and more are set to be unveiled at RE+ Las Vegas, Nevada, Sep 8-11.

As tariffs push copper costs higher, one startup thinks additive manufacturing could free batteries from the metal altogether.

The company opened a 95,000 square foot facility that is expected to create 100 jobs in Houston, adding to its existing footprint in the area.

California lawmakers passed two bills that aim to facilitate how the state and its utilities handle virtual power plants.

The inverter is designed for three-phase grid configurations without using external transformers. It contains gallium nitride technology, a first for Enphase’s microinverters.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is loaded with negative measures for the U.S. solar industry. What does the bill mean for solar project development over the coming years?

The distributed energy value stack is the collection of benefits and revenue streams that distributed energy resources (DERs) — such as solar, storage, demand response, and flexible generation — can deliver to customers, utilities, and the grid. As the market evolves, the value stack has become increasingly complex. For sellers of DERs and virtual power plants (VPPs), transparency into this value stack is no longer optional.

pv magazine USA spotlights news of the past week including market trends, project updates, policy changes and more.

Scientists from Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United States have investigated existing back-contact perovskite solar cell architectures and have proposed a strategy to help reach commercial production.

A new test curve for determining solar panels’ breaking point from hail uses a broader spectrum of impact energies and testing products.

Canadian and U.S. researchers have investigated applying pressure to a 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite to tune the optical and electronic properties to suit photovoltaic applications, light emitting diodes or other semiconductor devices.

A team of scientists at Georgia Southern University has combined both spatial and temporal attention mechanisms to develop a new approach for PV inverter fault detection. Training the new method on a dataset created in MATLAB/Simulink, the group has compared it to a series of other data-driven and statistical-based methods and has found accuracy reached 97.35%.

Local energy initiatives have increased at the local level, but researchers say more focus on addressing spatial planning and economic benefits is needed in the renewable energy transition.