Author: solarenergy

By Martin McConnell August 31, 2026 Certainty in Action. Integrated energy infrastructure delivering complex projects reliably at scale nationwide. This week on Projects Weekly, Sol Systems has made its second purchase of 2026, acquiring the Lumberton Solar Project in eastern Texas. Canadian solar firm PowerBank has reacquired a portfolio of two New York projects worth about $32.5 million, and Aspen Power has announced a tax capital commitment with two partners for its 30-project community solar portfolio. In New York, Northern Sun Energy has broken ground on two projects for Seaboard Solar and in California, the County of Ventura has teamed…

The earnings calls that quietly reframed climate from sustainability question to operating risk. Three earnings calls in the last 18 months tell the story without any help from a press release. Hershey, May 2024: cocoa price exposure compresses margin, and the company attributes part of the cost shock to West African weather. Olam, July 2024: coffee climate exposure quantified in the annual report. JBS, January 2025: supply chain climate disclosures expanded materially in response to investor pressure and regulatory expectation. None of these companies issued the announcement as climate news. They issued it as financial news. The climate-linked supply chain…

By Martin McConnell August 17, 2026 Certainty in Action. Integrated energy infrastructure delivering complex projects reliably at scale nationwide. This week on Projects Weekly, Trinasolar and Spear Commercial & Industrial have finished a rooftop solar and carport installation for Houston’s Drake Plastics. In California, a trio of projects by Recurrent Energy, Arevon, and TotalEnergies are strengthening different sectors of the Golden State’s wider grid. In Connecticut, Greenskies and Titan Energy have partnered with Andover Elementary School to provide the school with a rooftop solar project. In the Midwest, Pando Energy Partners has launched a new community solar platform in Illinois,…

The accounting differences that decide whether your nature investment shows up in inventory, in BVCM, or nowhere at all. The question reaches a procurement team about three weeks before the next sustainability committee meeting. Someone has read about insetting. Someone else has just signed off on an offset purchase. The CSO wants to know if the two are interchangeable. The answer is no, and the GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Standard is the reason why. This article walks through what each term means at audit-grade specificity, what the standards actually say about how each gets counted, and how to…

By Brad Kramer July 30, 2026 A data center and AI hub under construction outside Columbus, Ohio. Data center development in the United States has slowed, according to a new report. However, capacity continues to grow at a slower pace. Developers added 36 GW of new data center capacity to the US pipeline in the first quarter of 2026, according to a new report from Wooden Mackenzie. The number of new data centers fell 19% from Q4 2025 as the analysis showed established developers shifting focus to their existing project pipelines in a more challenging development and regulatory environment. Cumulative…

According to figures from energy think tank Ember, Türkiye will have added 2.1 GW of new solar capacity in the first half of 2026. This figure brings the country’s cumulative capacity to approximately 26.9 GW, added to last year’s deployment figures. At the end of June, the number of solar power plants in Türkiye reached 41,000, compared to around 37,600 at the beginning of this year. This year’s growth saw solar energy register its highest-ever monthly share of electricity generation in Türkiye last month. Data from EPİAŞ, the country’s energy exchange company, shows that solar energy was responsible for 16.5%…

By Martin McConnell July 28, 2026 Costco Wholesale The energy solutions company’s distribution center in Port St. Lucie, Florida has been completely disconnected from the Sunshine State’s power grid since July 28, according to officials with the energy solutions company. Trinity energy. The new project is the latest in a series of collaborations between Costco and Trinity Energy, representatives say, as the superstore’s distribution centers in Mira Loma and Ontario, California saw the commissioning of solar and storage in late 2025. The Port St. Lucie project will include solar and storage for all construction equipment, lighting, refrigeration and electric vehicle…

The Federal Communications Commission has banned the importation of new internationally manufactured power inverters, such as those used in solar PV and energy storage projects, into the United States. Yesterday the FCC added “foreign manufactured power converters” to a list of communications products and services that it considers a risk to national security, citing alleged risks to the supply chain and cybersecurity of electrical infrastructure. “These vulnerabilities could allow foreign companies to disable the inverters or use them to collect and exfiltrate data, facilitate remote access and surveillance by foreign government actors, or otherwise be exploited through a cyberattack,” the…

By Martin McConnell July 28, 2026 Georgia power has cut the ribbon on the Moody Battery Facility, one of the public utility’s first BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) locations to be connected to solar energy. The 49.5 MW battery system, located just outside the southern Georgia city of Valdosta, can be deployed to the Peach State’s power grid in a period of approximately four hours. The flexible energy system also matches the output of the Moody solar facility to which it is linked, adding further resilience to the local energy grid. Rick Anderson, senior vice president and senior production officer…

Taiwan is about to introduce new regulations for the installation of solar PV systems on large buildings. Effective August 1, changes to Taiwan’s Renewable Energy Development Act will require newly constructed, expanded or renovated buildings with a floor area of ​​1,000 square meters or more to install solar PV systems at a rate of 1 kW per 20 square meters of building area. During a briefing on the new regulations, Vice Minister of Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior (MOI) Dong Jian-hong said the regulations are expected to add about 660 MW of solar PV capacity annually. A press release from…