This article offers a handy roundup of the top 6 developments around and from FERC thus far in 2024. It touches on their transmission planning and cost allocation ruling, their restoration to a full complement, their partial approval of PJM capacity market reforms and backtracking on Delmarva capacity prices, their rejection of a $1.1 billion Bridgepoint private equity deal, and their approval of cold weather power plant standards.

Apparently, global solar module prices are falling across the board. Batteries and inverters are also hitting historically low prices due to market oversupply. This may help spur PV global market recovery.

Sinovoltaics has a handy map of the latest NA manufacturing hub – it lays out current and planned capacity for 95 plants in the module supply chain. The report tracks announcements for plants producing modules, cells, wafers, ingots, polysilicon, and metallurgical-grade silicon.

A new white paper explores the regions that would most benefit from solar dev. It looks at the Southeast, which remains heavily fossil-fuel dependent, as well as developments in the Southwest. The authors also discuss their process in choosing areas, consider equity and the role of private capital, among other things.

Clean Energy Associates digs into some best practices for buyers looking to avoid expensive mistakes in the market by listing some red-flag warning signals that can help ensure high-quality supply chains and successful project execution. They discuss supplier selection and contracting, product quality and definition, BESS integration, and installation quality.

Qcells solar panels in California can now receive bonus incentives via Qcells’ Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program. This handy video walks through the program, laying out how homeowners can earn more via their Q.Home core battery system, defining terms for the layperson, and offering a CTA to enroll. The video is below.

This episode of Solar Builder’s The Pitch talks with a Solar Applications Specialist at Fluke to review popular solar pro tools such as I-V curve tracers, irradiance meters, clamp meters, and thermal imagers plus some recent innovations in I-V curve tracers in the 1,000 and 1,500 volt ranges. They also talk about how handheld tools are still important with all the remote monitoring and drones. The video is below.