The Q3 report from American Clean Power states that operational renewables capacity in America has reached 243 GW, enough to power 65 million homes. Texas leads the way with 56 GW while California has almost 32 GW, leading in solar and energy storage active capacity. Of the 5.5 GW that came online in Q3, 3 GW of the total was solar. Battery storage installs keep increasing quickly, growing 63% year-over-year in Q3. 

Hoymiles has launched a three-phase microinverter, the HMT-2000-4T-208-NA series, for the North American C&I market. Features include high power output, design to meet specific requirements of North American grids, S-Miles Cloud integration, 4-in-1 design, and enhanced safety features.

The DOE is taking steps to ease the transmission bottleneck. They are investing $1.3 billion in transmission lines crossing six states, enough to enable 3.5 GW of additional capacity to come online. Impacted states include New Mexico – Arizona, New Hampshire – Vermont, and Nevada – Utah.

With an $800 million investment, Canadian Solar is building a 5 GW solar cell production facility at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana, set to produce about 20,000 modules per day. Last month, Silfab Solar announced it will build a plant in South Carolina capable of producing 2 GW of cells and 1.2 GW of modules each year.

This article argues for the need to partner with the right teams around O&M for C&I assets. It touches on the relationship between asset management and rising interest rates, performance issues, team building, tech optimization, replacing spare parts, and diversifying portfolios.

In this Solar Conversation, SolarAcademy host Kerim Baran talks to Philippe Hartley of CleanFi about one of the major issues of the solar industry – the lack of a scaled solution for the function of financing small-to-medium sized commercial and industrial solar assets. Philippe and Kerim talk about Philippe’s decade-plus-long history in the renewables industry, his finance background, why he created CleanFi, how and for whom CleanFi solves problems in the space of small and medium-sized solar for C&I customers.  The video is below.

This webinar from Solar Builder and SolarReviews looks at what leads to bad reviews and what to do about them. It talks about the factors that lead to bad reviews, how to generate more good reviews, how to build long-term relationships with customers, and what makes a winning bid. It also looks at post net-metering and the pros and cons for installers post-IRA. The video is below.