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California has advanced a bill that would enable residents to request remote inspections for home energy systems.

The US has launched a US$12 million R&D fund that will support projects to produce solar panels for use in space.

US IPP Invenergy has started construction work at its 120MW Quincy Solar Energy Center in Grant County in the US state of Washington.

Drawing on his experience of flood risk engineering, Hossein Ghoveisi makes the case for early, accurate hydrology in solar project design.

Japanese PV manufacturer Toyo has reported 2.6GW of cell shipments and 191.5MW of module shipments in the first half of 2026.

EDF power solutions North America has signed two PPAs with NV Energy to sell power generated at a solar-plus-storage project in Nevada.

A patent infringement lawsuit filed by Maxeon against Canadian Solar has been dismissed with prejudice in the US Federal District Court.

Tax credit transfer value in the US rose between the second half of 2025 and the first half of 2026, according to Crux.

Crux's Hasan Nazar says that the US’ expansion of downstream manufacturing may strengthen the business case for upstream manufacturing.

The ACC voted last week to cut the export rate—the price at which residential solar consumers can sell electricity back to the grid—by 10%.