PW has chosen five up-and-coming rock stars in the industry to watch for 2025 and beyond. They are Gwendoly Espe of Solectria, Byron Kominek of Solar Garden, Leslie Chang of Caelux, Nick Korth of Hellermanntyton and Sam Weaver of CCSA.

Solar Builder projects what things may look like under Trump with an emphasis on some of the positives. It looks at solar jobs in red states, resiliency and innovation, software, tariffs, storage and more.

Nextracker announced it delivered trackers to a CA project that are expected to be the first to qualify 100% domestic content value for solar trackers under the IRA. However, the article points to the fact that the Trump admin may seek to remove the 10% bonuses for both domestic content and energy communities.

Data for Progress surveyed voters about their perceptions of rooftop solar and adoption barriers and their thoughts re solar-related policies. The findings reveal strong bipartisan support for solar and high interest in resi solar in particular, but point to key obstacles to deployment like high upfront costs and limited awareness of available incentives.

This new Stanford report details ten reasons why BTM solar is vital nationally – shooting down objections to it and explaining why utilities are threatened by it. The report covers issues ranging from the economics for ratepayers, safety issues, fossil fuel dependency, and more.

This article looks at the risks involved with installing systems in the face of frost heave. It details to problems/causes and common mistakes and offers solutions around assessment, foundation and prep and what questions to ask partners.

This webinar series looks at how developer Working Power uses Anza’s solar module and BESS procurement platform to scale. It goes over the Anza platform, eliminating manual data collection and analysis, making optimal dev decisions, the role of data, and more. The video is below.