What’s New In Solar?

Solar FlexRack, a Northern States Metals division and a photovoltaic mounting and solar tracker solutions company, says its trackers have been installed in over 80 solar projects on California farms, including the latest 2.82 MW project located south of Hanford.

Renewable Solar Inc. (RSI), an installer of commercial and agricultural solar projects in the region, installed this solar energy system for Danell Brothers Dairy. The U.S. Representative for California’s 21st Congressional District, David Valadao, a former dairy farmer and San Joaquin Valley native, spoke during the ribbon cutting ceremony for this project about his support for distributed renewable energy systems that are providing critical savings for local farm owners.

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Supply chain woes and policy uncertainty threaten America’s solar progress.

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PVBUZZ MEDIA | EDITORIAL TEAM

Wind + solar are 15% of total U.S. Generating capacity; all renewables combined are 25%. By 2024, FERC forecasts nearly four times more new capacity from solar and wind than from natural gas

Renewable energy is useful energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, including carbon neutral sources like sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.Read More

By Ed Kennedy | Solar Magazine

It’s common knowledge how solar panels work in the day. An average person on the street will be able to tell you they harvest light from the sun which is then converted into power. Solar enthusiasts will be able to speak more expansively, detailing how photovoltaic cells absorb the sun’s energy, convert it to DC electricity, and then see the solar inverter convert DC electricity to AC electricity for use throughout a home or business. Yet regardless of the general knowledge that exists surrounding solar panel use during the day, their use at night remains a novel—if not totally foreign—idea to most.Read More

By Kelsey Misbrener, News item from Save California Solar

Clean energy advocates, environmental groups, solar consumers and businesses — fresh off defeating AB 1139 in the state legislature — are fighting back against the continued big utility “profit grab” that aims to make rooftop solar more expensive, harm consumers and slow down California’s clean energy progress. They joined together at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to call on state leaders to keep solar affordable and growing in California as the Newsom Administration considers changes to net metering. Read More

By Billy Ludt,  News item from SEIA

The U.S. solar market surpassed 100 GWdc of installed electric generating capacity, doubling the size of the industry over the last three-and-a-half years, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q2 2021 report, released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.

Solar had a record-setting Q1 2021 and accounted for 58% of all new electric capacity additions in the United States. Renewable energy accounted for nearly 100% of all new electric capacity in Q1.Read More