Community microgrids saved lives during a PG&E shutoff in Humboldt County. Lisa Cohn of Microgrid Knowledge has tracked every project getting built in America right now. She tells you what separates the ones that succeed from the ones that fail, and what you need to know before entering this market. Community microgrids are among the…
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Solar carport installation costs can swing by 12 cents per watt before a single panel goes up. Kyle Sinclair, CEO and co-founder of SDE (Sinclair Designs and Engineering), James Strizki, Project Manager and CFO of GenMounts and Renewable Energy Holdings, and Matt Boyce, a PE licensed in 27 states and Principal Engineer at Engineered Solutions,…
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CATL unveiled its TENER Sodium energy storage system at Intersolar Europe in Munich, rated for 15,000 cycles to 70 percent state of health at room temperature. CATL frames that as a 25 to 30 year service life, and it takes only 34 modules to stand up a one gigawatt-hour site. That single specification changes how…
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The 54,000-square-foot Victory Pickleball looks ordinary from the parking lot. Inside, fifteen indoor pickleball courts host leagues, lessons, and open play seven days a week. Hiding on the southern roof is a 250kW solar array, while on a pad behind the building, a 2.12 MWh lithium iron phosphate battery is finishing commissioning. Together, these two…
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At an event celebrating the opening of its new Chicago headquarters, leading community solar developer Nexamp highlighted how Illinois is setting a national benchmark by rapidly scaling renewable energy while deeply embedding equity, labor standards, and inclusive workforce development into the core of its clean energy transition. On June 24, Nexamp, the nation’s largest community…
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A single design error on a commercial solar project can cost $60,000 to $70,000 to fix. Scott Wyssling and Catherine Kelso of Wyssling Consulting explain what quality design actually looks like, why AI cannot replace a licensed engineer reviewing plans, and how battery integration really fits into commercial solar today. In this episode, Tim Montague…
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Battery energy storage fire safety is one of the most urgent permitting challenges facing solar and storage developers in 2026. Mike Nicholas, Energy Storage Specialist and Fire Consultant at Hiller Companies, brings a rare perspective: he built Kern County’s entire BESS permitting program from scratch in 2019, when no national standards existed, and now travels…
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In the wake of winter storms Elliott and Fern, utilities in the Tennessee Valley have taken different approaches toward building resilience, offering examples to those still planning for the next storm. Billion-dollar weather disasters now strike the United States every 19 days, up from every 90 days in the 1980s. That shift explains why the…
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A US federal court just ruled the IRS acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner on solar and wind safe harbor rules, shaking up project timelines for developers racing toward the July 4, 2026 deadline. Meanwhile, at the Shanghai Solar Show (SNEC), energy storage claimed more floor space than solar panels for the first time,…
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Storage has moved from add-on to anchor. Here is how to build the muscle to develop and install commercial battery projects. For most of the last decade, C&I solar installers treated battery storage as a value-add. That era is over. In 2026, storage is becoming THE DEAL at a growing share of C&I sites, and…
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