What is Solar Workforce Development?Solar workforce development includes online training, on-the-job training, curriculum development, and other activities that prepare people for solar energy car...

Deciding where solar projects will be installed is one of the very first decisions to be made in a project development timeline. While residential solar is most commonly found on rooftops, utility...

What is Community Solar?The U.S. Department of Energy defines community solar as any solar project or purchasing program, within a geographic area, in which the benefits of a solar project flow to ...

Solar rooftop potential for the entire country is the number of rooftops that would be suitable for solar power, depending on size, shading, direction, and location. Rooftop potential is not equiva...

What are solar energy soft costs and why do they matter? Soft costs are the non-hardware costs associated with going solar. These costs include permitting, financing, and installing solar, as well ...

Solar energy technologies can be vulnerable to cyberattack through inverters and control devices that are designed to help manage the electric power grid. Operating-technology (OT) devices like sol...

The Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) supports research and development projects that advance the understanding and use of the semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC). SiC is used in power elec...

Solar panels have one job: They collect sunlight and transform it into electricity. But they can make that energy only when the sun is shining. That’s why the ability to store solar energy f...

What Are Grid Planning and Operation? When it comes to systems integration, “planning” refers to near- and long-term power system designs under various generation and load scenarios; “oper...