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Some 90,000 individual solar panels will generate enough electricity to cover around 40% of the electricity use in two buildings for Google.

The 1.2 MW installation will join a host of other renewable resources in powering the stadium’s 11 MW electricity load.

Researchers at NREL and EPRI focused heavy bass sounds on solar panels to simulate the effects of wind-caused deflection.

The IQ8 solar microinverters are capable of forming a microgrid during a power outage using only sunlight, providing backup power without a battery. The systems also allow any size Enphase battery to be paired with a solar system.

Chester Solar will be built near Richmond by co-developers D.E. Shaw and Torch Clean Energy.

Also starting up: Heliogen is building a test CSP, and EV maker Aptera rolls out the third alpha of its solar equipped vehicle.

The Covid-19 pandemic and higher productivity rates cut U.S. solar jobs by about 6.7% in 2020.

States don’t need to reinvent the wheel when evaluating smart inverter requirements, said a Sunrun policy director, noting that delays in setting requirements could lead to “wasted infrastructure.”

The deal includes more than 800 MW of solar and solar+storage in four states.

Clearview Solar I and Ross County Solar are the state’s latest utility-scale project approvals with more expected.