Greentech discusses the top mobile apps and what they can do for installers. They look at specs for offerings from Fronius, SolarEdge (which includes a video), Enphase, and SMA.

This article argues for the need for regulations of the US battery industry that are similar to those of the EU in order to “clean up supply chains and dirty business practices.” To secure the needed share of required minerals, mineral recycling efforts that reduce US demand for raw minerals and create new jobs are required. The article looks at how US regulation is far behind the EU, particularly around circularity.

kWh Analytics, a climate insurance provider, received $500,000 from InnSure’s Insurance Innovation Prize supported by NYSERDA. The funding will support the development of a tax credit insurance product tailored for small-scale DG renewables projects under 20 MW looking to monetize IRA tax credits. They plan to launch this new product in about a year – a database to streamline the due diligence process for tax credit insurance in NY and nationwide.

This article looks at the push for standards for agrivoltaics projects and digs into the particulars of rotational grazing for vegetation management. It also details the benefits of dual-use projects and their impacts on developers.

Treasury released additional guidance on the IRA’s domestic content tax credit bonus for solar and storage projects. This guidance builds on the domestic content safe harbor they published in 2024 that had the New Elective Safe Harbor tables for default cost percentages that developers could cite to determine eligibility for the domestic content bonus. The highest change is a new column for module cost percentages for modules with domestically sourced wafers.

Reuters looked at key themes in solar that can help investors understand what will shape clean energy investment return potential in 2025 and beyond. They look at areas of growth, possible reduction of red tape, the Trump admin, downshifts in the market, and more.

Downtown Seattle hosts the world’s first net zero highrise building. Powered by 300+  APsystems YC600 mico-inverters, which has a profile page on SolarAcademy, the 622 panel solar array generates about 210k kilowatt hours annually.

The microinverters are equipped with power factor control capability allowing for power factor adjustment according to utility, transformer, or battery requirements from the building’s energy storage system. The building was designed and built by the building technology company Sustainable Living Innovations. The high-rise has earned the rare Net Zero designation by the International Living Future Institute. The video about it is below.