• TechCrunch: Data centers love solar: Here’s a comprehensive guide to deals over 100 megawatts
• Reuters: What’s in Trump’s April 1 trade reports ahead of US reciprocal tariffs
• Solar Builder: Video: Watch Rosendin Electric’s robot install solar panels
• Utility Dive: FERC review of PJM colocation rules for data centers, large loads may extend past mid-year: analysts
• Bloomberg: One of the World’s Biggest Coal and Gas Ports Is Being Tested
• PV-Tech: PERC technology is ‘obsolete’ in Europe and low PV prices are here to stay – report
• Energy Storage News: Europe installed 12GW of energy storage in 2024; EU state aid boost to come
• PV-Magazine: U.S. solar manufacturing boom “real — but fragile,” said CEA
  

Opinion

• New York Times: Why Al Gore Is Shifting His Climate Activism Abroad

Best, Yann

FTC Solar. Yesterday I had to pleasure of reporting on FTC Solar’s 2024 financial performance, my first annual report as CEO for the company. In the past 7 months, since I joined, and over the past year, the company accomplished quite a bit in deploying the Pioneer 1P product into the market. This has resulted in quite a bit of traction in the past months that put us in a great position for the future. I am thankful for the team that is speaking to the market every day and engineering the features that make FTC solar’s tracker the fastest and easiest to install. If this resonates with you and we can be helpful, I look forward to partnering with you in the future as well. 

• Energy Storage News: Wärtsilä closes strategic review of energy storage segment, ‘remains committed’ to sector
• Solar Builder: Charts: Aurora Solar survey shows no political divide in solar energy interest
• Reuters: Solar company Emeren gets takeover proposal, says CEO to step down
• E&E News: Solar is out as DOE rebrands Solar Decathlon
• Utility Dive: Moody’s upgrades PG&E on reduced credit risks from wildfires
• Bloomberg: Volatility Grips Wall Street Ahead of Trump’s Tariff Rollout
• PV-Tech: Agrivoltaics: towards the optimisation of the solar resource for energy and food
• PV-Magazine: APA Solar invests $19.5 million in Ohio expansion
   

Opinion

• Canary Media: Will Texas self-destruct its clean energy industry?

Best, Yann

Happy Birthday. We have a special happy birthday mention from a great SolarWakeup friend, John Murphy, who passes along a happy 50th to operations guru Chris Perron. Let this be the start of the SolarWakeup birthday mentions!

Halfway Leaderboard. Catherine Heigher and Joseph Abel are leading our women’s and men’s brackets as we head to the final stages. Still feeling pretty good about my chances, hopefully breaking the streak of never having won the SolarWakeup bracket challenge.

• Bloomberg: Shell and BP See Trading Edges in Clean-Energy Stakes
• Energy Storage News: ‘BESS to help ERCOT manage doubling of demand by 2030’: Energy Storage Summit USA 2025 kicks off
• PV-magazine: Texas Senate passes bill to expedite permits for home solar, battery systems
• Associated presses: Renewable energy jumps to new high, powered by China solar boom
• UTility Dive: PJM fast-track interconnection process draws 26.6 GW in proposals
• Reuters: Shell scraps solar, onshore wind power projects in Brazil
• PV-Tech: JinkoSolar ships 99.6GW of modules in 2024, endures operational losses
• Canary Media: Span’s new smart electrical panel can plug right into utility meters
   

Opinion

• Axios: Renewables surged globally in 2024, new data shows

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• Bloomberg: Altman-Backed Oklo Sees Trump Cutting Red Tape for Nuclear Power
• PV-Tech: European PV market will ‘consolidate’ amid economic uncertainty
• Axios: Exclusive: Carbon removal gets farm-friendly boost
• Reuters: Exclusive: UAE renewables firm Masdar weighs possible IPO, sources say
• PV-Magazine: Minnesota legislation aims to sunset community solar program
• Energy Storage News: Ex-Tesla and Freyr team launch sodium-ion ESS startup for ‘distributed hybridisation’ with solar
• Canary Media: Hyundai to make ​‘low-carbon’ steel at $6B plant in Louisiana

Opinion

• Utility Dive: New England could connect 9.6 GW of offshore wind without new infrastructure: report

Best, Yann