Blink and Create team up on solar-powered EV charging system
The electric vehicle charging infrastructure is designed to need no trenching and is based on Create Energy’s Nanogrid technology and Blink’s chargers.
Sunrun supports California grid with 75,000 distributed batteries
Through a customer opt-in, batteries are coordinated in a virtual power plant that is expected to dispatch 250 MW of power over 2-hour peak demand events.
Letter from 38 Republicans calls for full repeal of “green new scam”
House Republicans are clashing over the fate of Inflation Reduction Act tax credits, which have led to over $130 billion in private investment announcements.
With cuts at stake, solar installers raise their voices
Local installers and their customers can access advocacy groups to tell the stories of the benefits of solar including how it cuts energy costs and builds resilience while also providing jobs and driving profit.
Building not your average dream home: High performance
This series describes the process of designing and building a sustainable home, which is passing tests for airtightness and proved to retain heat in winter. But the Xcel stumbling block has yet to be overcome.
Sunshine State eyes faster solar permitting
Florida legislators are evaluating a bill that would cut down on the permitting process and allow the use of automated permitting software.
An analysis of utility-scale solar corruption in California
Researchers have found seven perceived patterns of corruption tied to the utility-scale solar boom in Southern California from 2010 to 2024.
Enphase Energy increases deployment of U.S.-made microinverters and batteries
Enphase reports that more than 6.5 million IQ microinverters and 50 MWh of IQ batteries made in the U.S. have been deployed, and it recently began shipping those with enhanced domestic content.
Texas House passes bill to require recycling of retired solar, wind projects
One of the biggest states for solar passed a bill through its House of Representatives to require the recycling of retired solar and wind projects.
California committee advances bill to break rooftop solar contracts on home sale
An amended bill that would end net metering for homes with solar once they are sold passed the California State Assembly’s Utilities & Energy Committee.
