The challenge for developers is to move quickly to secure lower costs before the minimum pricing takes effect, with the options being to secure modules already in the U.S., accelerate imports or shift...

The cost of solar panels has dropped to just a few cents per watt, thanks to a massive supply of photovoltaics flooding the market.

Declining module costs are offset by elevated structural materials tariffs and surging domestic freight rates, leaving residential solar as the sole segment to see price reductions in Q2 2026.

Solar United Neighbors (SUN) and Rewiring America will host an energy focused event on Tuesday, September 29, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Montclair

Despite the sunsetting of the federal investment tax credit, solar energy remains a premier, low-cost power source set for faster growth by shedding complex regulatory delays and third-party tax risks...

The department expects the projects will add 23 GW in grid capacity and will come online in “record time” to improve the existing transmission system.

The decision in a suit brought by Harris County, Texas, follows a similar ruling last week. A Harris County judge called it “a really important victory for energy resilience.”

A U.S. District Court judge rules the Trump administration acted unlawfully when terminating congressionally authorized clean energy grants designed to lower energy costs for low-income households.

Too many utilities are keeping coal plants open, planning new gas plants, and building less renewable energy, the Sierra Club’s latest "Dirty Truth…

A 1.8-GW, $20 billion data center planned by PowerHouse Hillwood was underpinned by a $1 letter of credit — “less than the price of a cup of coffee” — that drew skepticism from FERC Commissioner David...

The jobs lost in 2025 reflect the first annual job loss in the U.S. clean economy since the economic crisis that followed the Covid-19 pandemic, ending four consecutive years of strong growth and eras...

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

Analysis from Solargis shows summer 2026 irradiance departed significantly from long-term seasonal averages.

Onyx Solar has supplied over 32,000 sq. ft of photovoltaic glass for the roof of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the museum founded by George Lucas and

More than 140,000 home batteries pushed 580 MW onto the California grid during a September heat wave, days before Gov. Gavin Newsom must decide the fate of a bill that would write distributed batterie...

California is in the middle of an energy paradox. Electric demand is rising faster than at any point since the postwar era driven by data centers, EV charging, heat pumps, and the broad electrificatio...

PG&E ended 2025 with five flexible interconnection sites online. Data centers, EV chargers, hospitals are all waiting for hard path infrastructure that takes decades to permit and build. This week, P...

Researchers used symmetry-breaking co-assembly to improve SAM coverage and interface quality in inverted perovskite solar cells, achieving a 26.32% efficiency and a certified result of 25.67%. An enca...

Research from China deployed lead halide perovskites 10 meters below the surface of the South China Sea. The cells generated 324 mWh, enough to charge lithium-ion batteries, when submerged for two hou...

A strategic supply agreement with Waymo and rising EV adoption rates will expand the company’s access to older batteries still fit for use in stationary storage, CEO Freeman Hall told Utility Dive.

We Recycle Solar announced it would establish a solar panel recycling and critical material recovery facility in Texas with a scheduled launch in Q3 2027.

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA) announced that the two organizations will combine following

MN8 Energy, Eos Energy Enterprises and Google will pair solar generation with lithium-ion and zinc-based long-duration energy storage (LDES) at a West Virginia project the companies say will provide d...

North Plains Connector has earned backing from the Energy Department and utilities, and could deliver huge cost and reliability benefits — if states give…

Turbines generate tax revenue and sizable payments for farmers, but development has slowed as the political winds have shifted.

Environmental and public health-focused organizations are suing the Trump administration over its move to wipe out most climate regulations on coal and gas power plants. The Natural Resources …

Eliminating federal limits on power-sector emissions could undermine local climate goals and increase risks to infrastructure and public health, city and environmental leaders warn.

The City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, just celebrated the unveiling of its largest solar installation. A 4.6-MW expansion array was recently completed at a

By participating in programs that ease grid congestion, school districts can recoup thousands of dollars from the price of electric school buses.

Smoke and flames were reported at Moss Landing Power Plant inside a structure damaged in the 2025 Vistra battery fire. No injuries have been reported.

D3Energy has energized a 6-MW floating solar array on a village reservoir in Monroeville, Ohio. It is the largest floating solar system in the state and

A new IEA PVPS Task 13 report identifies distinct reliability risks across BIPV, floating PV and agrivoltaics, from heat and partial shading to wave loads, ammonia exposure and soiling. It argues that...

A 2.25-MW solar array atop a closed and capped municipal landfill in Derry, New Hampshire, is now online. The project was developed by Encore Renewable

The U.S.-made Airon tracker delivers up to 20% more generation than fixed-tilt floating photovoltaics at a parity installed cost, with commercial deliveries scheduled to begin in mid-2027.

The decisions come “amid growing concern about the balance between rapidly increasing electricity demand and the resources available to serve that demand” in PJM territory, the Pennsylvania PUC said.

Commissioner Darcie Houck suggested taking “a closer look at the correlation between utility performance and compensation.” The plan has not been comprehensively updated since 2007.

“The Department’s reading of 'emergency' invites frequent federal interventions that are unsupported by the statute and threaten the stability of the energy market,” the U.S. Appeals Court for the Dis...

A sudden regulatory change in the United States has forced solar and energy storage developers to consider a rapid supply chain restructure, as future inverter technology manufactured overseas faces a...

On the campaign trail, the governor said dismantling city-owned utilities will save customers money by introducing competition.

As an anchor tenant, the Foundation locks in energy costs over a multi-year agreement, providing financial stability to Reactivate's community solar projects under the Illinois Solar For All program, ...

An increasing number of residential solar projects are losing their original installers, and with them the assurance that these arrays will operate as

Volta Foundation’s July 2026 report ‘Where Batteries Can Win in Data Center Applications’ shows the two areas where battery energy storage systems (BESS) are winning, four where it is competing and tw...

Renewables developers say the pendulum is starting, slowly, to swing back.

The 346-MW Gibson City Solar Project, developed by Earthrise Energy and constructed by Burns & McDonnell, achieved commercial operation in Illinois

Fraunhofer ISE and its partners have developed thicker electrodes that could increase battery cell energy density by 10% to 15% without adding weight. The PFAS-free, solvent-free concept has been demo...

Glint Solar, an AI-powered software platform for utility-scale solar and energy storage development, has a new tool that allows solar and storage

An international research team has developed an optimized semi-transparent PV greenhouse design that increases solar electricity generation by strategically allocating PV surfaces to south-facing roof...

Lakes Mead and Powell have sunk to unprecedented lows, jeopardizing their generation capabilities — but drought persists in the Northeast, too.

Plus: A deeper look at the West's energy mix