Intersolar North America Is Officially Here – What To Expect From SolarWakeup

By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent My Intersolar North America sojourn started yesterday, standing in the 90-degree heat looking at a new testing facility for bifacial solar modules. Run by Soltec but informed by input from some of the industry’s leading manufacturers and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), The Bifacial Tracker Evaluation Center (BiTEC) will perform rigorous assessment of installation and control parameter influences on bifacial tracker performance compared to other PV applications. [wds id=”3″] One of the key challenges holding back the widespread use of bifacial modules is a lack of real-world data on how they perform in the field, … Read More

Intersolar North America Honors Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. with First-Ever Champion of Change Lifetime Achievement Award

Intersolar and ees North America, the premier solar and energy storage events, will award California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. with the first-ever Intersolar Champion of Change Lifetime Achievement AWARD. Each year, Intersolar recognizes an individuals’ commitment to supporting the development of renewable energy with the Champion of Change AWARD, hosted in partnership with the California Solar and Storage Association (CALSSA). The Lifetime Achievement AWARD honors pioneers in clean technology and their outstanding accomplishments in advancing the adoption of renewable energy. “California’s solar industry owes a debt of gratitude to Governor Brown for his decades of support,” said Bernadette del … Read More

Intersolar North America, 3 levels of solar trends

Intersolar North America, 3 levels of solar trends By Yann Brandt In trying to find the market story, many of us travel to the trade shows. Last week was the time to attend Intersolar North America (ISNA) in San Francisco. A three level affair featuring the finest in solar gives a look into the window of solar as made up by each of us that attended. ISNA happens every July in the same place a few weeks after the largest solar show, Intersolar Europe in Munich. We had the opportunity to speak with Markus Elsässer, the Managing Director of Solar … Read More

This is your SolarWakeup for January 23rd, 2023

PV-Magazine: IRA creates 100,000 clean energy jobs and attracts $110 billion in private investments Utility Dive: FERC rejects MISO interconnection queue cap, saying it could be undermined by exemptions Canary Media: Long wary of batteries, New York’s now poised to go big on energy storage Bloomberg: Solar Firm Expands to Chicago, Vows to Spend $2 Billion in State Reuters: Germany set for gas power plant expansion deal this week Solar Builder: Connecticut doubles upfront incentive to install home energy storage Renewable Energy World: Nearly 200 clean energy projects were announced in 2023, with $64B in private investments Opinion Solar Power … Read More