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Residential solar businesses are using AI

EnergySage, Scanifly, Freedom Forever, and Bodhi have all introduced AI-supported tools for solar design, customer service, and workflow management.
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SolarEdge begins shipping U.S.-made batteries from new Utah facility

The power electronics manufacturer is now producing hardware for the U.S. solar industry in Florida, Texas and Utah.
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West Virginia solar leader keeps beat to rhythms of industry reinvention

pv magazine USA spoke with the owner of a 30-year old solar installation firm, who shared tactics for navigating the threat of major policy change.
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Budderfly activates multi-region virtual power plant

The company is now running grid flexibility services for small and mid-sized business customers across the CAISO, NE-ISO, PJM, and SPP independent system operator grids.
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Meta inks 360 MW solar deal with Adapture Renewables

The largest corporate solar offtaker signed on for more Texas solar with Adapture Renewables, bringing the total capacity between the two companies to nearly 700 MW.
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Anker Solix launches F3000 portable power station

Anker Solix has launched the F3000, a 3.1 kWh portable power station with 3.6 kW output, dual solar inputs, and EV and generator charging. The system is expandable to 12.3 kWh and priced at $2,599 in the United States and Canada.
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U.S. energy storage market sees record growth in Q1 2025

The Wood Mackenzie/American Clean Power U.S. Energy Storage Monitor forecasts 15.2 GW/48.7 GWh of capacity will be added in 2025 across all sectors.
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Sunnova solar assets stable, paying interest, while bankruptcy continues

Bond analyst KBRA, which has rated $6 billion of solar-backed securities issued by the recently bankrupt Sunnova, is maintaining its ratings and says the loan and lease packages remain stable investments, independent of the reorganizing company.

Press Releases

Array Technologies Announces Proposed Private Offering of $250 Million of New Convertible Senior Notes

The Notes will be senior, unsecured obligations of ARRAY, and will accrue interest payable semiannually in arrears.

Nautilus Relocates Headquarters to Chicago Amid Major Regional Investment

Over 100 MW of community solar expected to come online in Illinois over the next year alone – driving affordability, access, and local economic benefits.

Two Fort Smith Nonprofits Cut Energy Costs with Solar Energy to Power Community Impact

The Arkansas Climate League launched a transformative solar energy project to support low-income families and neighborhoods in Fort Smith, AR. With a total of $360,000 from the Community Energy Innovation Prize awarded by the U.

Pisgah Energy Announces Strategic Partnership with Schneider Electric to Develop & Deploy EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex Solutions

Pisgah Energy, a design-build general contractor specializing in commercial solar and energy storage applications, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Schneider Electric, the global leader in energy management and automation. This collaboration aims to advance the development and deployment of cutting-edge microgrid solutions leveraging EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex to lower operating costs and enhance energy resilience for communities and businesses throughout the United States.

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Nexamp charts out $3.9 billion investment in U.S. community solar

Nexamp aims to develop 3 GW of community solar through 2028.

Canada invests in Indigenous-led 2.85 MW solar project

The Sādę Solar Initiative will connect a solar array and battery energy storage to an existing microgrid located within the asserted traditional territory of the Liard First Nation.

Manufactured home builder meets 62% of manufacturing plant electricity demand with solar

Cavco’s solar investment points to a replicable model for how manufacturers can reduce costs, improve operations and pass savings to customers.

Average residential solar project $9,000 more without tax credit, said EnergySage

Reaching an investment breakeven point will take 43% longer if the Senate Finance Committee’s proposal to gut rooftop solar tax credits goes through, said the company.

The silver lining of ERCOT’s battery market saturation

Not everyone sees ERCOT’s battery glut as a crisis. Some, including a storage-only independent power producer, see it as storage is finally doing what it promised.

Solar grazing undergoing rapid growth, census finds

The scale of livestock grazing in agrivoltaic installations is much larger than previously understood, found the first solar grazing census by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the American Solar Grazing Association.

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U.S. solar manufacturers seek to match rhetoric with reality

An extension of 48E tax credit with the domestic content bonus levels the playing field, say Qcells', Talon PV and SEMA execs, so U.S. manufacturers can pay off the factories that they invested in in good faith against these credits.

Policy uncertainty leads to $1.4 billion cancelled U.S. manufacturing investments in May

Republican districts are hit the hardest, with more than $9 billion in investments cancelled, delayed or closed so far in 2025, as businesses react to House and Senate bills that propose an early end or elimination of tax credits, according to E2.

Texas solar module manufacturer sells $50 million in tax credits

SEG Solar closed a sale of 45X manufacturing tax credits. The company reports it has invested more than $60 million in its Houston facility, which has achieved an annual production capacity of 2 GW through two fully automated production lines.

Focus on domestic content boosts solar executive’s confidence

OMCO Solar’s Eric Goodwin shared insight with pv magazine USA on a solar industry that eagerly awaits further federal recognition of the value of domestically manufactured solar mounting systems.

T1 Energy begins site preparation for 5 GW solar cell factory in Texas

After acquiring the U.S. manufacturing assets of Trina Solar, Freyr Battery announced in February it was rebranding as T1 Energy and planned to produce both solar modules and cells in Texas.

Indianapolis solar panel manufacturer begins production

Bila Solar is manufacturing ultra-lightweight solar modules and newly launched 550 W dual-glass conventional panels in its 157,000 square-foot Indianapolis facility.

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New York passes bill requiring transparency of Power Authority’s renewable projects

The Public Renewables Transparency Act will create more oversight in how the New York Power Authority is making progress in its renewable energy strategic plan.

Eagleview rebrands and releases AI-enabled geospatial platform

Eagleview One is designed to provide access to a single, seamless platform where AI-driven property analytics and 3D models enable customers to make more immediate data-driven decisions.

Lennox launches residential heat pump with space-saving design

The company said its new EL18KSLV Side Discharge Heat Pump uses R-454B as the refrigerant and has a size ranging from 2 tons to 5 tons.

Minnesota saves community solar program

A debate to repeal of one of the country’s most successful community solar programs offers a window into other states’ battles to implement similar programs.

Solar installers find success remaining loyal to local communities

pv magazine USA spoke with community-based installers that have kept their feet on the ground as a way to avoid riding the solar coaster’s higher peaks but deeper drops.

Utility-scale solar developer Solv Energy acquires transmission contractor

Solv Energy acquired high-voltage transmission specialist Spartan Infrastructure.

Technology

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Yes in my backyard: research rejects ‘NIMBY’ hypothesis for solar opposition

Most people who live near large-scale solar projects have positive or neutral feelings about the solar project and only 18% would be opposed to additional solar projects, found a national survey published in Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy.

Batteries are stabilizing the Texas power grid

A study by North American Electric Reliability Corporation found that ultra-fast response times of batteries help to stabilize the grid better than slower thermal sources.

Abandoned coal mines can host over 10% of global solar capacity

A survey of mines closed since 2020 and those planned to close by 2030 present an opportunity for installing nearly 300 GW solar on already-developed lands, finds a report from Global Energy Monitor.

Interconnection shake-out: 160 GW of solar advances as 12% of projects bow out

About one-sixth of queued solar capacity now holds signed interconnection agreements, signaling real progress even as developers pull more than 130 GW of projects amid tightening interconnection rules.

Connector failure accounts for loss of 58% of revenue in commercial solar portfolios

A report from HelioVolta finds connector issues in four out of five solar projects in the United States and details what can be done from procurement to field inspections to minimize risk.

Despite low gas prices, solar, wind remain cheapest sources of power in U.S.

Renewables remain cost-competitive in the United States despite rising natural gas competitiveness, according to Lazard’s 2025 “Levelized Cost of Energy+” report, which estimates combined cycle gas at $0.048/kWh to $0.107/kWh, solar at $0.038/kWh to $0.212/kWh, and nuclear at $0.141/kWh to $0.220/kWh.

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