As California batteries increasingly depend on bid cost recovery to smooth out market deviations, the make-whole mechanism is being reshaped to balance flexibility and fairness.

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.

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.

Data centers’ energy demand is well-documented. Hyperscale AI data centers owned by big-tech companies are placing acute strain on energy infrastructure in the United States, the global data center capital, and many more are expected to come online. There is ongoing debate about how policymakers, grid operators, regulators and the energy industry – renewable or otherwise – can respond to the situation. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) can provide grid-balancing solutions, but not all are convinced they can fully replace gas.

Last week, ROTH Capital Partners hosted over 50 public and private companies and industry experts during its 12th Annual Solar & Storage Symposium at RE+ in Las Vegas. The three-day event offered perspectives on the evolving policy and market backdrop shaping solar, storage, and related sectors.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), a related executive order and other policy developments introduce new risks to the solar and energy storage industries in the United States. Changes to tax law affect everything from residential rooftop systems to utility-scale projects. Jesse Pichel and Lev Seleznov of Roth Capital Partners examine the key provisions in recent U.S. policy announcements and their likely impact on the industry.

With California facing a $12 billion budget shortfall, the state’s lawmakers opted not only against a boost in funding for its flagship virtual power plant program as initially planned, but to not renew its funding all together.

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

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.