EnergySage does a deep analysis of the current tech available from SunPower. They look at their various offerings (M, X and U series); compare them to other manufacturers around efficiency, performance, warranty, and price; discuss cost; and look at pros and cons.

Solar Builder has unleashed a particularly useful Inverter Buyers Guide. They go over 15 offerings and offer advice for buyers re service, off-gird factors, long-term thinking and more. The lineup includes the latest from Enphase, CPS, AP Systems, Morningstar, NEP, and others.

That relatively new solar model agrivoltaics continues to grow steadily with the global market reaching $9.3 billion. It has been pegged at a 10.1% annual growth rate. Output of agrivoltaics rose from 5 MW in 2012 to about 2.9 GW in 2020.

SEIA put out a white paper to help installers and other vendors reduce reliance on global imports (especially China). Entitled “American Solar and Storage Manufacturing Renaissance: Managing the Transition Away from China,” it looks to help businesses apply practices that support re-shoring manufacturing and scale domestic production in key points along the supply chain.

In this SunCast/SolarAcademy solar conversation, solar industry veteran Jon Bonanno talks to Ted Thomas, Former Chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, about the complex world of the US Electrical Grid, the thousands of utility companies and entities, and how they all work with each other. The video is below.

In this second video is the seven-part series, Joe Tanner, Director of Sales at Enact Systems, and Kerim Baran of SolarAcademy discuss Enact’s main features and what makes them unique. Joe describes their use as a design and workflow tool, available support for proposals and incentives and more. The video is below.