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MLB minor league team replaces aging solar system with new American polysilicon panels
The Great Lakes Loons, the minor league baseball team supporting the Los Angeles Dodgers, has replaced an existing 20-year-old solar system at the Dow Diamond stadium in Midland, Michigan, with brand new panels from JinkoSolar. The Jinko panels use polysilicon from nearby Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC). “Solar panels at Dow Diamond isn’t a new concept for… […]
Bowman acquires solar modeling company Sierra Overhead Analytics
Bowman Consulting Group, a national engineering services and project management firm, has acquired the assets of California-based Sierra Overhead Analytics (SOA) and its technology affiliate ORCaS. SOA is an engineering firm providing technology-centric civil design, precision mapping and hydrology services to a wide range of energy and general infrastructure customers. ORCaS provides proprietary tools for… […]
The Solar Policy Scoop: October 2025
Arizona governor signs executive order in support of solar development Phoenix, Arizona Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an executive order in September establishing the state’s commitment to renewable energy growth in the face of unprecedented federal backlash. The order establishes a task force to facilitate large-scale energy growth and speed permitting to address rapidly increasing… […]
WattFlow launches new proposal software for C&I energy storage, microgrids
WattFlow, a new software platform for C&I energy storage and microgrid sales teams, has officially launched. Designed to streamline project qualification and proposal creation, WattFlow enables sales professionals to generate accurate, customer-ready proposals in less than ten minutes. Traditionally, sales teams in the C&I storage market face long delays waiting on engineering support to model… […]
Virginia report finds 16% of resi solar projects that begin permitting process are abandoned
The Environment Virginia Research & Policy Center released a new report, “A 21st-Century Permitting Regime for Rooftop Solar and Home Batteries in Virginia,” at the Virginia Clean Energy Summit. The report, co-authored with Permit Power and the Chesapeake Solar and Storage Association (CHESSA), details the current state of solar permitting in Virginia. As energy demand… […]
Xcel Energy proposes 200-MW distributed battery storage network across Minnesota
Xcel Energy released a new proposal to build out a battery storage network across Minnesota, optimizing the state’s energy grid and helping the company meet the growing electricity needs of the communities it serves. Under its Capacity*Connect proposal, Xcel Energy will install up to 200 MW of battery storage resources at strategic locations on the… […]
Chest physicians say climate change is bad for lung health, so they install solar on HQ
Hardt Electric has completed an installation of Maxeon Solar panels at the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) headquarters in Glenview, Illinois. As an organization dedicated to improving lung health worldwide, CHEST has long recognized the link between climate change, air quality and respiratory wellness. CHEST’s decision to invest in renewable energy reflects its commitment… […]
Scientists break Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit for silicon solar cell in experiment
A Chinese-US research group claims to have achieved a power conversion efficiency of over 50% in an n-type single-junction solar cell by inhibiting light conversion to heat at extremely low temperatures. The result was achieved at temperatures of 30-50 Kelvin, which are a few tens of degrees above absolute zero. From pv magazine Global Researchers […]
Utilities pump the brakes on climate commitments while giving more gas to fossil fuel
Most utilities failed Sierra Club’s annual report because they are building and maintaining too many fossil fuel plants and too few clean energy projects to keep up with demand. Utilities are backtracking on their climate commitments and giving more gas to fossil fuels, according to Sierra Club’s annual report that evaluates utilities on their transition […]
SPR shortens distance between solar sites and recycling facilities
The company has expanded rapidly to bring its services to all 50 states in the US and is already recycling end-of-life panels at scale, according to Brett Henderson, the CEO and co-founder of SPR. At RE+ 2025, SPR (solarpanelrecycling.com) highlighted the company’s steady expansion to streamline the processing of end-of-life PV panels. In his interview, […]
