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.

On-site storage paired with hydrogen and solar could unlock reliability and scalability for next-gen data centers.

Energy storage can be the final push a utility needs to accept a new large load application.

VDE America’s Brian Grenko says a focus on portfolio management and risk mitigation can help developers succeed.

Canada is investing CAD 33 million ($23.8 million) in a 32 MW solar project to be built by George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan.

The company is building an N-type cell fab in Greenville, North Carolina, complementing its active 2 GW module factory.

The U.S.-based solar inverter manufacturer is displaying a new 1 MW utility-scale inverter and a 1000 V transformerless inverter at the RE+ trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada September 8-11.

The major solar manufacturer is displaying several new solar modules at the RE+ trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada September 8-11.

The advisory arm of a leading national accounting firm details how this year’s federal budget and tax bill provides a leg up for domestic manufacturers, including those in solar.

The company partnered with Origami Solar to manufacture its modules, which also contain U.S.-made solar cells.

The company will unveil its FlexBank 1.0 battery at the RE+ trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada taking place September 8-11.

The Solar Energy Industries Association president and CEO Abigail Hopper said the agenda will help the U.S. meet “skyrocketing demand for energy and keep prices down for families.”

The new solar incentive program contains a built-in mechanism for responding to market shifts, and addresses implementation challenges to ensure site selection and energy storage can achieve their intended policy goals.

The decision recognizes leeway for the Trump administration to determine how best to administer a prior legislative initiative – namely, federal grants for clean-energy projects.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s tool helps public and private energy buyers, like colleges, utilities, local governments, industrial buyers and more, explore off-site electricity options with cost-informed insights tailored to their specific goals.

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.

Interconnection agreements grew 33% year-over-year in 2024 and are sustaining momentum through 2025, said Wood Mackenzie.