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Sunrun increases storage attachment rate to 62% in Q4 2024

February 28, 2025
As storage capacity installation grew in double digits during Q4 2024, added solar PV grew by 6% year-on-year to 242MW in Q4 2024.
JM Steel workers at the Nextracker-dedicated production line. Image: Nextracker.

US metal producer Fabral to enter solar sector with steel racking production

February 28, 2025
Fabral will join a number of other US steel manufacturers supplying racking and tubing to the US solar industry.
Cypress Creek Renewables’ Zier solar-plus-storage facility, Texas. Hybrid projects offer greater dispatch flexibility. Image: Cypress Creek Renewables.

Meta, Microsoft secure PV agreements with Cypress Creek Renewables and Silicon Ranch

February 27, 2025
US tech giants Meta and Microsoft have both respectively signed solar PV agreements with developers Cypress Creek Renewables and Silicon Ranch in the US.
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First Solar launches TOPCon lawsuit against JinkoSolar, ships record 14.1GW of modules in 2024

February 26, 2025
First Solar has launched a lawsuit against JinkoSolar for alleged infringement of a tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) cell patent.
National Grid Renewables' Yellowbud solar project in Ohio.

Brookfield to acquire National Grid Renewables

February 25, 2025
The deal values National Grid Renewables - the US project development arm of the UK's National Grid - at approximately US$1.735 billion.
Louth Callan Renewables' Three Suns solar project.

Louth Callan Renewables to build 121MW of solar capacity in Illinois, US

February 25, 2025
Louth Callan Renewables has been awarded permission to build three solar projects, with a combined capacity of 121MW, in Illinois.
Pictured: Brandon A. Smith, Mayor of Greenwood; Alex Zhu, CEO of ES Foundry; John R. McCravy, III, South Carolina House District 13; and Dayne Pruitt, Greenwood County Councilmember.

ES Foundry, Bila Solar in 300MW US PERC cell supply deal

February 25, 2025
The deal follows the start of production at ES Foundry’s 3GW nameplate capacity manufacturing plant in January.
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New tests needed to explain high breakage rates in thin PV module glass – report

February 24, 2025
A high breakage rate in thin PV module glass is a vulnerability that is not yet widely understood due to inadequate testing regimes, according to the IEA PVPS.
The US EIA forecasts 63GW of utility-scale capacity additions in 2025

EIA forecasts 32.5GW of US solar PV additions in 2025

February 24, 2025
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has forecast 63GW of new utility-scale additions in 2025, led by solar PV.
A Lightsource bp project.

US adds record 49GW of solar capacity in 2024

February 24, 2025
The US added a record 49GW of new solar capacity in 2024, according to figures from the BCSE and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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