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During last week’s heat-wave-driven grid emergency in California, grid operator CAISO and the state’s utilities sent out desperate calls to demand response providers, behind-the-meter battery aggregators, electric-vehicle charging providers, microgrid…

Distributed solar and storage company SunPower and panel manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies finalized their split on Thursday. The transaction, first announced in November, will allow SunPower to focus on its core business of residential and commercial…

Earlier this month, Washington, D.C.-based Pepco became the latest United States utility to seek out non-wires alternatives (NWAs) to address an upcoming constraint on its network. In early August, the Exelon subsidiary called on distributed energy developers…

Solar PV is now the dominant technology for new electricity generation capacity additions. That's a huge achievement, but it brings up the vital question of what will happen to all those panels when they reach the end of their useful life. In April, GTM…

Multi-family housing is a hard nut to crack for solar and battery developers. Sonnen and Wasatch Group say that bundling the value of solar and storage for tenants, property owners, outside investors, utilities and grid operators can make it…

The Golden State is in a dark place. Power outages in the midst of a historic heatwave were followed by devastating wildfires. All of which comes on top of persistently high COVID-19 case numbers and a once roaring economy now faced with a $54 billion budget…

We are just over two months away from America’s presidential election. And that means we are days away from one of the most consequential political moments ever for the planet.  Joe Biden put climate and cleantech jobs at the top of his priorities in last…

The best compromises tend to leave all parties equally dissatisfied. By that measure, the German coal phaseout looks like a great compromise. The first tender to pay German coal power plants to close will begin next week, and no one is entirely…

The global PV inverter and module-level power electronics (MLPE) market breached $9 billion for the first time in 2019. Inverter shipments also hit a record high last year, falling just short of 130 gigawatts, according to a new analysis of the inverter…

Germany’s depressed onshore wind market finally looks set to get some relief. Long a global leader, Germany's wind market fell to its lowest point in years in 2019, due in part to a botched auction design. The design change saw lawmakers…

For the past 40 years, OSIsoft has built a commanding position as the utility industry’s provider of choice for “data historian” software. The San Leandro, Calif.-based company’s PI software platform creates massive time-ordered records of everything…

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) will be required to acquire thousands of megawatts of renewables and storage in coming years, according to a Monday order from the island’s energy regulators that also rejected many natural gas additions…

Remote minigrids are a tough market for a traditional smart meter vendor. The meters that minigrids use need to be cheap, rugged, and reliable, and be able to adjust to the often unstable operating conditions of solar-powered standalone grids. They also need…

Falling costs and growing project pipelines will ensure the 2020s are the “decade of hydrogen,” according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. Over the past 10 months, the global green hydrogen project pipeline has swelled from 3.5 gigawatts to more than…

The Southeast U.S. is one of the last parts of the country that lacks an integrated market for transmitting electricity across utility and state boundaries. A new study says changing that could save the region’s utilities and customers billions of dollars…

A new residential grid flexibility service available in parts of the U.K. will combine energy storage, vehicle-to-grid and smart EV charging for the first time. The project, led by energy technology firm Kaluza, will trade that flexibility in close to…

The California Public Utilities Commission recently laid out the next step in how it plans to meet the demands of 2018 state law SB 1339 — creating a regulatory structure for commercially viable microgrid projects. That’s a tall order, requiring policies…

Gregory Wetstone is president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), a Washington, D.C.-based industry group. In the thick of a global pandemic, it’s sometimes hard to predict what the next day holds, let alone the next month or year.…

The grid battery fire in Arizona last year ended with an explosion, but disagreement has emerged on how exactly it began. Owner Arizona Public Service recently concluded that a defect in a single lithium-ion battery cell caused it to heat up, triggering a…

For five years running, author Tam Hunt has provided his take on global clean energy markets in his Solar Singularity series. Read his first installment in this year's update here, covering solar and batteries. *** I was optimistic about EV growth in last…