United States

The data, gathered from various government sources, shows that solar and wind now provide enough energy to serve the needs of nearly 80 millions households, with huge recent growth in some surprising places.

A UMass Amherst study of 686 large-scale installations tracks public opposition across the United States, revealing that more than half of all projects face little to no local pushback.

Thornova Solar has introduced a new utility-scale solar module featuring reinforced armored-glass architecture engineered to survive severe 65 mm hail impacts in weather-exposed regional markets across the United States.

Dynamic pricing of electricity along with price-responsive residential and commercial equipment would lead to a solar-friendly load shape, while reducing peak demand and customer bills, says a report from Berkeley Lab.

Elon Musk said SpaceX and Tesla teams are working separately to build 100 GW a year of solar manufacturing capacity in the United States, a process that he expects will take about three years. pv magazine USA’s Ben Zientara assesses the likelihood of these plans coming to fruition.

A short-seller report suggesting T1 Energy is not compliant with FEOC restrictions from claiming US clean energy tax credits sent the stock down 13%, before heavy market activity drove the price back toward 52-week highs the next day.

The California-based company says its technology is the perfect match for data centers, providing low-degradation long-duration energy storage while serving as a middle layer between the grid and highly volatile power needs of data centers. Now it’s set to prove it.

An engineer and home-energy enthusiast installs the Anker Solix E10 on a fire-prone California hillside, and documents the entire process in a deep dive review for ESS News.

As the U.S. solar industry continues to adjust to life under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), Jesse Pichel and Lev Seleznov of Roth Capital Partners note two risks that are drawing attention across the market. These include the potential for a second reconciliation bill that could reopen elements of solar policy, and continued friction in tax equity and tax credit transfer markets tied to unresolved Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) and Prohibited Foreign Entities (PFE) guidance. Taken together, these issues show that policy risk has not disappeared for US solar – in some respects, it is evolving.

Grok Ventures has provided project-level financing as the sole external investor on a US-based 5 GWh thermal energy storage system providing 50 MW of round-the-clock energy through an offtake agreement with biofuels giant, POET.