The Texas company says its new front-of-the-meter distributed battery program with El Paso Electric will help the utility manage demand and provide resilience for homeowners who host the systems.

After nine years at the helm of U.S. solar’s main trade body, Abigail Ross Hopper announced she would step down as president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), effective Feb. 1 ...

A global study finds climate change will sharply increase high-temperature risks, accelerate degradation, and raise costs for rooftop PV, with economically disadvantaged regions hit hardest.

Mexico is attracting US data centers seeking faster power connections, but these facilities will initially rely on firm gas generation from the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), with renewables ...

Octopus Energy will acquire a solar and storage project in California that is expected to be operational by July as part of its investment. The UK-based company, active across major markets in Europe, ...

On February 1, 2026, California’s batteries bridged the solar gap with seamless precision. After discharging through the night until sunrise, they spent the daylight hours charging, then pivoted back ...

The passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) in July 2025 brought forward deadlines for PV projects to receive U.S. tax credits introduced by previous legislation, and set new requirements to ...

Researchers at NREL found that UV exposure can cause significant, partly non-recoverable degradation in TOPCon solar cells, with strong cell-to-cell and intra-cell variability linked to passivation ...

A study led by two energy lawyers documents the causes of “lagging” battery energy storage deployment in the Eastern U.S. and recommends 15 policy solutions that could help scale BESS deployment.

According to SolarGIS, single-year irradiance anomalies shouldn’t be used to reveal long-term trends or structural shifts in solar resource risk.

pv magazine: There has always been an association of BESS with solar. It is the combination with batteries that basically enables solar to be a dispatchable resource. Otherwise, it’s not. Otherwise, ...

The guidance covers requirements in the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act to establish methods to determine whether a clean energy facility or manufactured component was produced using material assistance ...