Solar Conversations
Vendor Updates
- Sunrun, Renew Home form nation's largest VPP with Tesla (Solar Builder, Martin McConnell)
- KKR to buy EDF power solutions' North American operations for $4.2B (Utility Dive, Zoya Mirza)
- Canada's Powerlily joins the solar software fray (Solar Builder, Charles Thurston)
- Asylon DroneDog pitched as physical security for large solar sites (SPW, Kelly Pickerel)
- Tesla announces 13.5 GWh energy storage deployments in Q2, sets July earnings date (pv magazine, Ben Zientara)
- SolarEdge's modular inverter + storage solution enters US market (SPW, Billy Ludt)
- Comstack Metals announces sustainable solar recycling site coming to Ohio (Solar Builder, Martin McConnell)
Policy & Market News
- The ongoing economic fallout of the OBBBA (pv magazine, Anne Fischer)
- Fixing generator interconnection | Factor This Policycast (REW, Paul Gerke)
- E2: Big Beautiful Bill cost US nearly 500,000 clean energy jobs (SPW, Billy Ludt)
- Solar industry sounds alarm on federal permitting delays, warning of $120 billion consumer cost (pv magazine, Ryan Kennedy)
- Trump's 'big, beautiful' law was supposed to kill clean energy. It didn't. (Canary Media, Dan McCarthy, Kathryn Krawczyk)
- Competition grows for solar industry workforce (pv magazine, Anne Fischer)
- What can best ease transmission bottlenecks? More transfer capacity, DOE says. (Utility Dive, Ethan Howland)
- 5 questions answered as solar tax credits phase out (EE News, Christa Marshall)
- Federal oversight puts billions in renewable energy investment at risk (Solar Builder, Brad Kramer)
- Commercial rooftops have more potential than the solar industry believes (SPW, Daniel Domingues)
- Agrivoltaic cold frame system for controlled-environment crop cultivation (pv magazine, Lior Kahana)
Solar Pro Know-how
- Op-ed: Lean construction principles in utility-scale solar (SPW, Chinmay Pingulkar)
- Why clean energy procurement is no longer just about price (pv magazine, TJ Smith)
- Does your logistics company understand the solar market? (SPW, Craig Wadas)
- How EPCs can de-risk solar carport projects (pv magazine, Tim Montague)
- Lost bypass diodes in solar modules pose hidden fire risk (pv magazine, Ryan Kennedy)
- I sold my solar company to my employees. Now I help other founders do the same (SPW, Dr. Fariborz Mahjouri)
- Community solar needs space to grow. Warehouse rooftops have lots of it (Canary Media, Jeff St. John)
- The decision points that make or break solar projects (pv magazine, IEA)