Nico Johnson of Suncast interviews Woody Rubin, the Chief Development Officer of AES Clean Energy, a Fortune 500 global power company with a significant number of renewable generation facilities. Woody discusses agrivolatics, AES’s innovation culture, scaling clean energy on a local and global level, and how AES and the industry will benefit from the IRA tailwinds.

Global install PV capacity could get to 260 GW this year, says the IEA PVPS in a recent report. 173.5 GW of new solar was installed last year, a 22% year-on-year level of record-breaking growth. A key element is that the trade disruptions around the world have been easing.

An NREL study shows that moving rows of solar panels farther apart increases efficiency and improves economics at times because it allows greater airflow to whisk away heat that accompanies panel functionality and can decrease output. In short, greater separation between rows allows airflow that cools the modules.

Happily, the nation’s battery capacity more than tripled since the beginning of 2021 to 6,703 MW. Top 5 states in August, in order, are California, with 3,629 MW; Texas, 1,168 MW; Florida, 520 MW; Massachusetts, 196 MW; and Nevada 165 MW.

Canadian Solar spotlighted their CS6R-MS-HL module at RE+ 2022, and this video captures the salient points. They describe warranty, load allowance, aesthetics, design details around cell structure and more. The video is below.

Greenwich Renewables (formerly CED Greentech) offers this webinar on Stem’s commercial energy storage offerings and their recently acquired partner AlsoEnergy, a leading commercial solar monitoring and control company. They discuss best practices for EPCs around solar and storage performance and look at AlsoEnergy’s PowerTrack PCLS 400 and 600. The video is below.