Solar industry news: Mounting, inverter, PV module, tracker and energy storage trends; net metering regulation; financing, buying trends and more. The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has given its stamp of approval for the Kaawanui Solar and energy storage project on.
Now, a team of researchers at MIT has devised a way of automatically cleaning solar panels, or the mirrors of solar thermal plants, in a waterless, no-contact system that could significantly reduce the dust problem, they say.
In a disclosure statement filed on July 3, 2025, with the U. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Oakland, California-based company outlined a plan to either convert its debt to equity or pursue a sale of its assets, as it grapples with liquidity constraints.
The Japanese government has defined new standards for agrivoltaics as regulators begin tightening oversight in response to nearly one-quarter of projects reporting reduced crop yields or sub-standard cultivation beneath solar panels.
Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity today announced more than $8 million in selections for funding to projects that accelerate microgrid innovation through the Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) program.
In a new study, published in the Nov. 25 issue of the journal Joule, he and his colleagues demonstrate an ultrafast way to produce stable perovskite cells and assemble them into solar modules that could power devices, buildings and even the electricity grid.
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