Solar Power World

It's only Wednesday, and it's already been a week of wild weather that won't soon be forgotten in Ohio. Intense thunderstorms have reached every corner of the state, and strong winds flipped over a car on the interstate north of Columbus. Heavy rainfall p

In commercial and industrial solar PV work, the mounting surface is rarely the engineer's choice. Factors of geometry, land availability, shading and budget affect that determination, and the design team inherits the result. But the harder task is what co

Arevon Energy has brought online the 300-MW/1,200-MWh Nighthawk Energy Storage Project in Poway, California. Nighthawk is the largest standalone battery storage project in the company's portfolio. The LFP battery system enhances grid reliability in the Sa

PVFARM is now in the energy storage design game after launching the commercial version of its platform for utility-scale battery energy storage (BESS) layout exploration, RE STACK. Together with the original PVFARM platform, RE STACK forms an expanding su

TotalEnergies has completed a 4.1-MW solar and 1.55-MWh battery storage project at Sonoma State University (SSU), one of the largest solar plus battery systems in Sonoma County, California. Driven by the California State University (CSU) system-wide commi

Andover Elementary School in Andover, Connecticut, in partnership with Titan Energy and Greenskies Clean Energy, recently completed a rooftop solar project designed to support the district's long-term sustainability goals while stabilizing future energy c

A unique solar system at Drake Plastics in Cypress, Texas, has been in operation for eight months and is helping the polymer manufacture achieve 30% overall energy use offset. Trinasolar supplied its Vertex N solar panels for a 1.3-MW rooftop and carport

SEG Solar last week inaugurated its second U.S. panel assembly site, a 4-GW annual capacity facility in Tomball, Texas. The company also operates a 2-GW panel facility nearby in Houston and is building a third factory in the area. Representing an investme

OnePlanet releases details today of its proprietary, fully automated recycling process that recovers copper, aluminum and high-purity silicon carrying ore-grade silver from end-of-life solar panels. The process, Photovoltaic Recycling through Integrated S

Sodium-based batteries aren't new to the energy storage market, but interest in their technology began growing in the early 2020s as the industry explores alternatives to lithium. Sodium-ion batteries behave and can be manufactured similarly to common lit