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The best thing about solar being subsidy free may yet turn out to be the neutering effect it has on politicians, argues John Parnell.

The organisation responsible for overseeing California’s bulk electric power system has approved proposals to accommodate more distributed energy resources, including rooftop solar, energy storage, advanced inverters and demand response, onto the state’s grid.

The US installed more solar power capacity in 2015 than new gas capacity, according to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

An amendment to the US Senate Energy Bill aimed at protecting residential net metering, proposed by two senators, including one in Nevada, has been backed by solar industry groups.

The need for solar to find new ways of staying competitive in the US is increasing as a the pace of hardware cost reductions slows. Ben Willis looks at efforts going on to tackle some of the persistently high soft costs involved in US solar development

California regulators are set to decide today on the future of the state’s flagship solar net metering programme.

Major renewables firm SunEdison has secured 25 California school projects for carports totalling 7.4MW.

New York state is to participate in a federal initiative to train US military veterans for jobs in the solar industry.

In the last two days the United States and United Kingdom have taken two very different decisions on the future of solar in their countries. As the world seeks to capitalise on the momentum generated by last week’s Paris climate agreement, they are decisions that could have far-reaching consequences.

The expected ITC extension will open the door to utility-scale solar below four cents per kWh, according to GTM’s vice president of research Shayle Kann.