Aurora offers up the latest data on how solar impacts the value of a home in the interests of providing strong info to help installers close with tough prospects. They look at two studies from NREL and Zillow to demonstrate that solar houses sell faster and allow owners to recoup the system cost when they sell. They also look at regional differences, electricity costs, system size and age and more.

Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association show the U.S. energy storage market set a new record in Q1 2022, with grid-scale installs coming to 2,399 MWh, the highest capacity for a Q1. The volume of U.S. grid-scale installs was 4x the volume of Q1 2021, even though the industry saw procurement barriers and project delays.

FERC is rolling out a new plan to fast track the huge backlog of renewables projects waiting to go online. Regulatory changes include requiring transmission grid operators, transmission-owning utilities and project developers to take on new roles that include some penalties if they don’t. Their reforms don’t address the issue of how grid upgrade costs can be shifted from developers to customers.

Legends Solar and their finance partner SDC Energy have created Legends Rooftop, an “’on-demand” solar investing platform in which investors can directly purchase panels operating on commercial solar farms (size can range from one remotely located panel to the whole rooftop). Investors earn cash when their panels generate and sell electricity.

John Davis of Cal Solar Inc and Kerim Baran of SolarAcademy look at the role of electric vehicle chargers when considering the multifamily commercial solar market. The discussion focuses on how to leverage or monetize the tech on their properties.

In this sixth video in a ten-part training series of key concepts for people looking to buy a solar system, Kerim Baran of SolarAcademy talks about popular panel and battery companies and typical costs for the average solar array in the US. The entire series can be viewed here.