Pair with PV for charging profitability
Electric vehicles now match and in some cases exceed the performance and reliability of internal combustion engine vehicles. Today, the most serious barrier to adoption is not EVs themselves, but deficiencies in charging infrastructure. Paired Power CEO Tom McCalmont explains how solar power and the right software could solve key challenges facing charger networks.
PV Hardware opens solar tracker factory in Texas
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.
Ampion launches new “synthetic” community solar program
The software company’s new cross-state community solar model helps developers unlock IRA tax credits while bringing bill savings to low-income households.
SK On secures 7.2 GWh battery storage supply deal in US
The South Korean manufacturer will repurpose a portion of its electric vehicle battery production line at its Georgia plant to produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) stationary energy storage systems.
U.S. installs 14.5 GW of large-scale solar in the first half of 2025
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.
All back-contact perovskite solar cell designs at a glance
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.
U.S. residential solar averages record-low $29,000 before incentives, says EnergySage
A marketplace report on the first half of 2025 reveals that median loan rates for residential solar projects climbed to 7.5%, with 38% of surveyed contractors saying loan demand decreased.
New deep learning tech for PV inverter fault diagnosis
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%.
Navigating One Big Beautiful Bill and tariffs in U.S. solar PV and storage
Turning challenges into opportunities as the U.S. solar and storage sectors enter a phase of major policy and market realignment.
Solar-powered schools act as living laboratories for learning
Linking classroom curriculums to onsite generation provides a hands-on introduction to clean energy.
