The US state of Nevada will meet 10% of its peak demand with the now-operational 690 MW Gemini solar-plus-storage project outside of Las Vegas.

First Solar has commissioned the Jim Nolan Center for Solar Innovation in Lake Township, Ohio. It includes a high-tech pilot manufacturing line to produce full-sized prototypes of thin-film and tandem PV modules.

Nature’s Generator has released a 50-amp, 12-circuit switch to manually power up selected circuits from backup systems.

Enphase Energy has developed an electric vehicle (EV) charger for commercial fleets. The CS-100 provides up to 19.2 kW of continuous power output and allows fleet operators to set up charging schedules using the Enphase proprietary COSMOS interface.

Enphase says that it has started shipping US-made IQ8P-3P commercial microinverters, supporting up to 480 W of peak output power and compatible with solar modules up to 640 W.

Partnerships with steel equipment producers in the US state of Ohio and two locations in Texas will enable Origami Solar to have its steel solar module frames shipped from fabricator to module manufacturer in one to two days.

Ojjo makes a unique truss system that reportedly uses half the steel of a conventional foundation and a design that minimizes grading requirements.

Owned by Unimacts and located near Las Vegas, the factory will produce steel components exclusively for Nextracker, bringing the tracker specialist’s annual domestic solar tracker capacity to over 30 GW.

Princeton NuEnergy (PNE) has secured $30 million of funds for lithium battery recycling. The low-temperature plasma-assisted separation (LPAS) process, developed at Princeton University, produces battery-grade cathode and anode materials for direct use in cell manufacturing.

The 60 MW Kūihelani solar-plus-storage facility will generate enough electricity for 27,000 homes, with a 240 MWh battery energy storage system.