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<p>This week on a post-Memorial Day edition of Projects Weekly, battery storage has taken center stage in the North American solar world once again. In southern California, MN8 Energy LLC... <a class="view-article" href="https://solarbuildermag.com/projects/new-bess-projects-flourishing-across-u-s-projects-weekly/">View Article</a></p> <p>-- Solar Builder magazine</p>

<p>Over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, many Americans watched auto racing and attended automotive enthusiast events. The Indy 500 was held, the largest single-day sporting event in the world with over 300,000 live spectators. And, while the death of Kyle Busch put an emotional damper on the event and mother ... [continued]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/26/evs-answer-automotive-enthusiasm/">EVs Answer Automotive Enthusiasm</a> appeared first on <a href="https://cleantechnica.com">CleanTechnica</a>.</p>

<p>Renewable energy company DESRI announced the start of construction on two solar-plus-storage projects in San Juan County, New Mexico. Foxtail Flats Solar and Storage comprise a 170-MW solar project paired with an 80-MW/320-MWh) battery energy storage facility contracted under a long-term power purchase agreement with the Incorporated County of Los Alamos. Four Mile Mesa Solar&#8230;</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/05/desri-breaks-ground-on-270-mw-solar-storage-project-porfolio/">DESRI breaks ground on 270-MW New Mexico solar + storage project portfolio</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com">Solar Power World</a>.</p>

<p>To help support EV sales in the US, the advocacy organization Electric Four All  bought billboard space near gas stations in 15 major cities over the Memorial Day weekend.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/26/ev-sales-us-subaru-gasoline-price-iran-war/">When Will EV Sales Pick Up In The US?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://cleantechnica.com">CleanTechnica</a>.</p>

<p>The XPENG GX definitely excited our own Larry Evans at Auto China 2026, and analysts obsessively tracking vehicle sales in China think it&#8217;s going to be a big hit. Deutsche Bank analysts expect that orders for the XPENG GX will give XPENG enough of a boost that it will have ... [continued]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/26/xpeng-gx-popularity-jacks-up-xpeng-orders-to-50000-vehicles-in-may/">XPENG GX Popularity Jacks Up XPENG Orders To ~50,000 Vehicles In May?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://cleantechnica.com">CleanTechnica</a>.</p>

Developers plan to bring approximately 44.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of new pipeline capacity online in the United States in 2026 and 2027, according to our latest Natural Gas Pipeline Projects Tracker. Approximately 70% (31.6 Bcf/d) of this new capacity is already under construction. More than 66% (29.7 Bcf/d) of the capacity additions originate in Texas. Louisiana is second with 19% (8.4 Bcf/d) of total capacity additions.

<p>Canada’s solar and storage industry is growing by leaps and bounds, projected to expand by a third or more over the coming year. Training enough solar installers to keep pace... <a class="view-article" href="https://solarbuildermag.com/canada/canadian-programs-aim-train-more-solar-installers/">View Article</a></p> <p>-- Solar Builder magazine</p>

<p>Utility-scale solar and storage company RES has opened a warehouse facility in Houston, Texas, to provide support to its growing solar and storage O&#38;M business. RES manages a growing portfolio of solar, BESS and wind assets across North America, and the Houston facility will play a direct role in supporting those assets. As RES&#8217; primary U.S.&#8230;</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/05/res-opens-om-warehouse-facility-in-texas/">RES opens O&#038;M warehouse facility in Texas</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com">Solar Power World</a>.</p>

<p>Solar energy now accounts for most new generation capacity added to the U.S. grid, solar and storage accounted for a majority of the capacity growth coming from renewables last year and a variety of solar-adjacent home energy technologies have become staples of residential energy systems. Concurrently, installation is taking longer, systems are harder to get&#8230;</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/05/passive-solar-commissioning-is-dead/">Op-ed: Passive solar commissioning is dead &lt;br&gt;&lt;span style=&#039;color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;&#039;&gt;Long live active solar commissioning&lt;/span&gt;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com">Solar Power World</a>.</p>

<p>Renewable energy sources are continuing to grow their share of the electrical generation makeup in the United States, growing more than 11% in Q1 2026 when compared to the previous year. The U.S. Energy Information Administration&#8217;s (EIA) latest “Electric Power Monthly” shows that the first quarter growth was led by utility-scale solar (up 23.9%), hydropower&#8230;</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/05/renewable-energy-sees-double-digit-growth-in-trumps-second-term/">Renewable energy sees double-digit growth in Trump&#8217;s second term</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com">Solar Power World</a>.</p>

While Germany is often described as the 'hottest' energy storage market in Europe, growing uncertainty on multiple policy and regulatory topics has led to a 'cooling' of investor interest.

CATL will supply the BESS units for Grenergy's two large-scale energy storage projects in Spain, both of which have decade-long tolls.

Solar-plus-storage projects are proliferating across the globe and necessitate a choice between DC and AC coupling. In this piece we look at the differences and pros and cons of each.

It’s set to be an abnormally hot summer this year — but the U.S. grid appears to be in decent shape to handle the heat. The credit goes to a boatload of new solar and storage and a handful of new gas plants. That’s the upshot of the new summer reliability assessment from the North American Electric Reliability…

Forrest Bagley was eager to dive into Illinois’ community solar market. The solar company he owns with his father and brother had successfully developed arrays in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York, and generous state incentives for community solar plus ample open land made Illinois seem an ideal new frontier. Now,…

India is seeing its first major grid-scale battery storage deployments, but efforts to domesticate the upstream supply chain are still at an early stage.

Gujarat Industries Power Co Ltd (GIPCL) is holding a competitive solicitation for a large-scale vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage project in western India.

Mining giant Fortescue has commenced construction on a 650MWh battery energy storage system at Cloudbreak in Western Australia's Pilbara region, alongside the 690MW Turner River solar PV power plant.

Queensland's Swanbank battery energy storage system (BESS) earned AU$743,000 (US$532,608) in dispatch revenue last month, more than double the AU$306,000 generated by the Victorian Big Battery over the same period in Australia.

<p>A major change in the way that China measures its core climate goal has effectively...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-new-carbon-metric-leaves-germany-sized-gap-in-its-emissions/">Analysis: China’s new carbon metric leaves Germany-sized gap in its emissions</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org">Carbon Brief</a>.</p>

<p>At Perth&#8217;s Curtin University in Western Australia, Lina Hockaday is leading a team researching the use of waste brine to upgrade iron ore in a different way, so it can be used to make green steel. Right now, most of Western Australia’s Pilbara region iron ore is simply ground and crushed. That works for coal-powered [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.solarpaces.org/could-waste-brine-from-desalination-plants-help-make-steel-greener/">Could waste brine from desalination plants help make steel greener?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.solarpaces.org">SolarPACES</a>.</p>

<p>At least 67 NHS hospital wards, departments and other sites across the UK have been...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-floods-have-forced-at-least-67-closures-at-nhs-hospitals-since-2021/">Revealed: Floods have forced at least 67 closures at NHS hospitals since 2021</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org">Carbon Brief</a>.</p>

El listado preliminar de la segunda convocatoria del programa REPOTEN 2 de ayudas a la renovación de parques eólicos antiguos e instalaciones hidroeléctricas de hasta 50 MW incluye 149 proyectos seleccionados.

SolarPower Europe estima que la generación solar en la UE está considerablemente infravalorada, y afirma que la producción fotovoltaica real en 2025 alcanzó los 410 TWh, frente a los 275 TWh que figuran en las estadísticas oficiales. La organización atribuye esta diferencia al registro incompleto de las instalaciones fotovoltaicas en tejados, a los retrasos en la transferencia de datos y a la dificultad de cuantificar la electricidad solar autoconsumida.

Researchers from UNSW and DAS Solar developed a zero-busbar metal grid optimization approach for tunnel oxide passivated back-contact (TBC) silicon solar cells, enabling more efficient current collection at the rear surface while reducing silver consumption by 3–4 mg/W. The first TBC cells produced in mass manufacturing using this technique have demonstrated efficiencies exceeding 27%.