Homes and businesses near the Valley Center Energy Storage Facility in California were evacuated this week and a shelter-in-place order was put into effect in the vicinity. Terra-Gen, the project’s owner, has issued a statement saying that the facility’s design systems contained the incident.

Hanwha Qcells will make sizable prepayments to help restart the REC Silicon plant in Moses Lake, Washington, by Nov. 1, with a goal of reaching full capacity by the end of 2024.

German battery manufacturer CMBlu is supplying its 5 MW, 10-hour-duration organic solid flow long-duration battery technology to a US utility project, featuring high-performance organic energy storage molecules.

FTC Solar has developed Sunops software, which enhances solar plant performance by using tracker analytics to identify and diagnose issues throughout solar sites, offering actionable insights for rapid problem resolution.

Nevada-based World4Solar has designed HelioWing, a modular solar canopy that comes preconfigured and can be installed in just one day.

Bila Solar – a Singapore-based developer of glassless, frameless PV modules – has announced plans to invest about $35 million to renovate a factory in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The passage of the US Inflation Reduction Act has brought forth a range of benefits, including the decarbonization of the US grid, but challenges remain.

In a joint development effort with UbiQD, thin-film solar manufacturer, First Solar, is exploring the potential use of quantum dots in enhancing solar photovoltaics.

Huawei, Sungrow, Ginlong, Solis, Growatt, and GoodWe emerged as the top solar inverter vendors in 2022, driving a significant portion of the year’s 330 GW (AC) of global inverter shipments.

Maxeon is set to invest $1 billion in the construction of a 3 GW TOPCon cell and module plant in the United States.