Author Archives: Ritesh Pothan

The City of El Paso, Texas, has launched Switch Together, a group buying program for solar installations. Switch Together uses a group buying model to help residents save money on home solar installations. The most recent auction secured a discount … Continue reading →

By Ali Turner, Principal Writer and Content Strategist As commercial and industrial solar continues to expand, exposed-fastened metal roofs remain one of the most practical platforms for photovoltaic (PV) deployment. But as more solar is installed on exposed-fastened roof profiles, … Continue reading →

Solar Power World, the premier media outlet for the U.S. solar market and publisher of the annual Top Solar Contractors List, is now accepting submissions for its manufacturer-focused awards program: Top Products presented by Solar Power World. Companies can submit their … Continue reading →

Renewable energy developer New Energy Equity along with community leaders and Harlem School District officials and students gathered in Machesney Park, Illinois, on Wednesday to celebrate the energization of a new 5.5-MW community solar project. Operated by New Energy Equity … Continue reading →

As utility-scale solar projects continue to grow in complexity, engineering, procurement and construction teams are under increasing pressure to deliver projects safely, on schedule and within budget. While advancements in technology and equipment have improved project execution over the past … Continue reading →

Two critical community facilities in Marin County, California, are safeguarding residents during power outages, reducing energy costs and easing strain on the electric grid with solar and energy storage. The Dance Palace Community and Cultural Center in Point Reyes Station … Continue reading →

Pearl Crop, a family-run nut processing business, was facing escalating energy prices, so it commissioned Renewable America to build 1.9 MWDC of commercial solar projects to help cover those costs. The agreement between Renewable America and Pearl Crop covers four … Continue reading →

Earthrise Energy‘s Archtop Solar Project, comprising Gibson City Solar 1 and 2, and totaling 270 MWAC, reached commercial operation on June 9. The project is the first application of Earthrise’s surplus interconnection strategy. Through this approach, 270 MW of new … Continue reading →

Sabanci Renewables, a subsidiary of Turkish energy company Sabanci Holding, has entered a power purchase agreement with Facebook parent company Meta for 100% output of its 100 MWAC/130 MWDC Lucky 7 Solar and 120 MWAC/156 MWDC Pepper Solar projects in … Continue reading →

OpSun has debuted the SunRail Inverter Rack, a mounting solution for inverters on commercial flat roof projects. Inverter Rack can accommodate one to six inverters per row. It ships to project sites preassembled and uses one type of nut for … Continue reading →

New data recently released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), and reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign, reveals growth of more than 10% in electrical generation by renewable energy sources in the first third of 2026. Moreover, utility-scale solar, … Continue reading →

A recently built 480-kWAC solar array in southern Ann Arbor, Michigan, is now the city’s largest PV project. This array at Steere Farm Wells is helping power vital water pumping facilities at one of Ann Arbor’s biggest electricity users. This … Continue reading →

Coyote Valley Casino & Hotel, located on the Coyote Valley Reservation in Redwood Valley, California, has completed a 2.23-MW solar carport system. The system, developed by Watthub Renewables and constructed by SunRenu Solar, has a PPA through Sunrock Distributed Generation with no … Continue reading →

The SB 13-2 community solar project is now online in upstate New York. The 7-MWDC array was developed and constructed by PowerBank for Honeywell International. The project is built on an industrial brownfield owned by Honeywell and regulated by the New … Continue reading →

PileTech, developer of the Piled construction quality management platform, has been selected by Array Foundation Services, a D.A. Collins Company, to provide quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) technology services for the 94-MW Moraine Solar project in Allegheny County, New York. Project … Continue reading →

There are 88,429 commercial and industrial rooftops in New Jersey. Together, they hold 22 GW of viable solar potential. Only 7.2% of those rooftops have solar today. That means 17.5 GW of untapped capacity is sitting on roofs that are … Continue reading →

Vesper Energy broke ground on Nazareth Solar, a 201-MW solar project on roughly 1,000 acres of private land in Swisher County, Texas. The project is expected to be commercially operational by fall 2027 and will generate enough electricity to power … Continue reading →

Canadian Solar subsidiary e-STORAGE is supplying a 75-MW/381-MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to be installed alongside Apex Clean Energy‘s 150-MW Coldwater Solar project being developed in Branch County, Michigan. e-STORAGE will deliver a BESS that combines SolBank 3.0 battery … Continue reading →

Comstock Metals is establishing a solar panel recycling facility in Cambridge, Ohio. The operation is expected to create 20 fulltime positions. Comstock will receive a $75,000 JobsOhio grant, which was facilitated by OhioSE. Comstock Metals specializes in industrial-scale recycling of … Continue reading →

Add South Korea to the list of countries American solar panel manufacturers are asking the U.S. Dept. of Commerce to investigate for circumventing antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders. Heliene of Minnesota, SEG Solar of Texas and Canadian Solar’s Indiana cell manufacturing … Continue reading →

Renewable Properties has completed the 4-MW Redemeyer Road Solar project in Ukiah, California. The system includes a 4-MW/16-MWh battery energy storage system and will provide power to Sonoma Clean Power, the community choice aggregator serving Sonoma and Mendocino counties in … Continue reading →

Enphase Energy is launching the new IQ9N Microinverter for residential solar across the United States. Built with gallium nitride (GaN) technology, IQ9N Microinverters are built to work with the latest solar panels and have a 25-year limited warranty. IQ9N Microinverters … Continue reading →

rPlus Energies has started commercial operations for Green River Energy Center, a 400-MW solar and 400 MW/1,600 MWH battery energy storage project located in Emery County, Utah. Green River Energy is the largest solar plus storage facility in utility PacifiCorp’s … Continue reading →

I have been involved in the solar industry for more than 40 years. During that time, I founded several companies, developed solar projects for organizations including NASA, the Pentagon and commercial clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, and spent more than … Continue reading →

Canadian Solar has launched its new TOPCon 3.0 solar panel, tailored for utility-scale power plants and C&I PV systems. With a power output of up to 670 W and a conversion efficiency of up to 24.8%, the new product is … Continue reading →

Nextpower (formerly Nextracker) is planning to acquire a European solar racking manufacturer. Zimmermann PV-Steel Group of southern Germany produces fixed-tilt, floating and agrivoltaic racking for the European solar market. This is the latest intent to purchase another company in a … Continue reading →

In the heart of the Emma community just outside Asheville, North Carolina, a transformation is taking place that goes far beyond hardwire and wires. While the transition to renewable energy is often seen as a luxury, a partnership between Sugar … Continue reading →

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has found that solar only occupies 0.07% of U.S. farmland in an interactive map the organization published today. The new tool comes amid Farm Bill negotiations in Congress and growing misinformation and targeted scrutiny … Continue reading →

Nexamp and TurningPoint Energy have commissioned two community solar projects in Minonk, Illinois, on a reclaimed former coal mine site in Woodford County. The two Minonk community solar projects have a combined capacity of 9.8 MW across roughly 40 acres, sending … Continue reading →

Soltec is now able to provide prohibited foreign entity-compliant (PFE) certification for its U.S. SFOne and SF7 series one-in-portrait and two-in-portrait single-axis solar trackers to help project owners meet domestic content requirements. Since the end of last year, the company … Continue reading →

After years in the courts, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Vote Solar, striking down the Arizona Corporation Commission’s (ACC) approval of discriminatory charges for customers of Arizona Public Service (APS) who have rooftop solar. In its … Continue reading →

Ingeteam helped with the first inverter-fed electroluminescence (EL) inspection of solar panels on U.S. soil. Ingeteam INGECON SUN 3Power UL C Series inverters were used on Acciona’s 458-MW Red-Tailed Hawk Solar Farm in El Campo, Texas. A total of 18,125 … Continue reading →

A luxury condominium community in North Scottsdale, Arizona, will have a central clubhouse that features CertainTeed’s SunStyle solar shingles. Designed by KTGY, the clubhouse draws inspiration from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, featuring linear forms, sloped rooflines, expressive structural members … Continue reading →

Convalt Energy is trying again. The company that bought the manufacturing equipment from the former SolarWorld facility for a new solar panel assembly site in New York has now set its sights on an “advanced manufacturing campus for the production … Continue reading →

The Maryland Clean Energy Center (MCEC) is using $2.7 million in collaboration with the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to fund solar and storage projects at 25 affordable housing properties in the state. This money will be allocated through Maryland’s Strategic … Continue reading →

Construction has started on solar energy installations being developed by Verogy at four municipal landfill sites in the towns of Mansfield, Morris, Somers and Suffield, Connecticut. The projects, all participating in Connecticut’s Non-Residential Renewable Energy Solutions (NRES) program, are turning … Continue reading →

Renewable energy infrastructure supplier Create Energy is acquiring solar racking manufacturer SOL Components from Kloeckner Metals. Create will offer SOL Components through its ONTRACK platform, a project design and management portal through which customers can also purchase packaged solar products. … Continue reading →

Commercial solar contractors spend a lot of time thinking about permitting timelines. What gets less attention is how structural engineering decisions made early in a project determine whether those timelines actually hold. A professional engineer stamp is not a checkbox. … Continue reading →

SunPower subsidiary Cobalt Power Systems of Mountain View and energy real estate company Wunder Power completed the 220.9-kW Waterfront Plaza solar project across from San Francisco’s Pier 33. “As building owners need more sophisticated engineering solutions to reduce operating costs … Continue reading →

By Megan Kjar, Marketing Director — Sunformance Powered by Sunstall’s 15+ years of field expertise, Sunformance is the dedicated performance recovery partner for commercial and utility-scale solar owners who need more than standard O&M. Body Copy The solar industry has … Continue reading →

Since its passage, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has introduced new constraints for companies seeking clean energy tax credits, requiring projects to meet both domestic content thresholds and foreign entity of concern (FEOC) sourcing restrictions. Together, these provisions … Continue reading →

Every solar asset manager knows the math. Dust, pollen, bird droppings, agricultural residue and salt film can steadily eat into production, and depending on climate and tilt, an uncleaned array can lose a meaningful share of its expected annual yield. … Continue reading →

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week finalized portions of its community solar program that solar advocates continue to describe as “unworkable and destined for failure.” “California remains committed to delivering on clean energy options for all customers,” said … Continue reading →

The Vertex N Shield solar panel from Trinasolar is now available to the North American market. The 620-W Vertex N Shield with 23% efficiency is engineered to withstand the extreme weather and common risks found in nature while maximizing system … Continue reading →

Solar racking and tracker manufacturer ARRAY Technologies crossed the 100 GW line for shipping solar tracker product. “Surpassing 100 GW of tracker products delivered worldwide is a significant milestone not just for ARRAY, but for the continued growth and maturation … Continue reading →

RWE and Meta have arranged a long-term corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) for the electricity generated by the 298-MWAC Rabbit’s Foot Solar project in Northeast Texas. Rabbit’s Foot began construction earlier this year. Once operational, the energy generated at Rabbit’s … Continue reading →

Brigham Young University-Hawaii is launching the second phase of its University Solar Project, which will allow the campus to meet 100% of its electrical energy needs through solar. Once completed, the project portfolio will not only power the university but … Continue reading →

The United States added 7.8 GW of new solar capacity in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing 6 million cumulative installations as solar remained the leading source of new power added to the grid. Despite changing tax policy and regulatory … Continue reading →

Qcells has begun manufacturing silicon solar cells at its integrated factory in Cartersville, Georgia. The company has invested $2.5 billion into the Cartersville campus, which already assembles solar panels and will soon also make silicon ingots and wafers. Qcells will … Continue reading →

Community solar developer Common Energy plans to work with local nonprofit Trinity Services to build five community solar projects totaling 16 MW in the greater Chicago area. Trinity Services serves over 6,800 adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities … Continue reading →