The Solar Product Registry Set to Boost Solar Deployment

Aspen Power, a leading distributed generation platform dedicated to building the clean energy future, announced the closing of a new tax equity facility with Monarch Private Capital. The investment will support Aspen Power solar project portfolios across New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, further advancing the company’s 2025 pipeline.

With this latest transaction, Aspen Power has secured a total of $66 million in tax equity commitments during the first eight months of 2025, underscoring strong investor confidence in its distributed generation strategy.

“This commitment secured through Monarch strengthens Aspen’s ability to execute on our pipeline and expand access to distributed generation across multiple states,” said Bill DeLong, Chief Financial Officer at Aspen Power. “Tax equity partnerships like this are essential to driving long-term growth and accelerating progress toward a more sustainable future.”

"Partnering with Aspen Power enables us to advance projects that align with our 'all-of-the-above’ energy investment strategy," said Bryan Didier, Partner and Managing Director Energy at Monarch Private Capital. "This collaboration supports the energy transition across New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania while delivering meaningful community impact and long-term value for our investors."

Aspen Power continues to lead in distributed generation, leveraging strong financial partnerships to bring more solar projects online. To date, the company has developed or acquired more than 600 renewable energy projects across 26 states, advancing its mission to build the clean energy future.

Aspen Power | aspenpower.com

Monarch Private Capital | https://www.monarchprivate.com/

Storion Energy LLC, a manufacturer of high-quality vanadium electrolyte and stack power assemblies, will demonstrate the benefits of their components for vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB) during the RE+ 2025 conference, Sept. 8-11 at The Venetian Expo and Caesars Forum in Las Vegas. Storion Energy representatives will be available in Stryten Energy’s Booth #F18033 throughout the show.

Storion Energy, a joint venture between an affiliate of Stryten Energy LLC and Largo Clean Energy Corp., is removing the barriers to entry for battery manufacturers by enabling them to domestically source price-competitive components for flow batteries, including vanadium electrolyte. Storion combines access to high-quality vanadium supply from the largest producing vanadium mine in the Western Hemisphere with domestic electrolyte production to establish a fully integrated vertical supply chain for utility-scale VRFBs used in long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications.

“Rising energy demand, aging grid infrastructure, and fragile global supply chains are creating serious challenges for industries that depend on reliable power,” said Travis Torrey, CTO of Storion Energy. “Storion’s innovative vanadium electrolyte leasing model removes a major cost barrier, accelerating the adoption of vanadium flow battery technology for utility-scale storage. This is a critical step toward building greater energy resilience for businesses and communities across the country.”

Torrey will be a panelist in the “Making Solar More Bankable” discussion at the Stryten Energy booth on September 10 at 11 a.m. This panel discussion will examine how energy storage transforms solar into a grid-ready, financially viable solution. Along with Torrey, Olivia Amyette of Infinite Energy Advisors, Dr. Vick Singh of Dragonfly Energy, and Scott Childers of Stryten Energy will discuss how battery storage enhances solar reliability, reduces the levelized cost of energy, and supports sustainability goals. The conversation will also explore regulatory shifts, integration challenges, and the future of solar-plus-storage amid rising demand from AI, EVs, and electrification.

Visit Booth #F18033 to participate in Storion Energy’s panel discussion and learn how VRFB supports utility-scale LDES to ensure energy resilience and security.

Storion Energy | storion.com

PV Hardware USA (PVH USA), a global provider of solar tracking and foundation solutions, announced the opening of its second U.S. manufacturing facility in Houston. This milestone underscores the company’s commitment to strengthening domestic production capacity for solar energy facilities and meeting the ongoing demand for its products across North America.

The 95,000-square-foot facility expands PVH USA’s U.S. footprint, creating more than 100 jobs in the local community. Outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment, the new facility officially began operations in July and will significantly increase production efficiency while reducing lead times for customers. It joins the company’s first $30 million U.S. manufacturing facility, which opened in Houston in May 2024 as one of America’s largest solar tracker manufacturing facilities.

“Opening our second U.S. manufacturing facility represents an exciting step forward in our growth journey and demonstrates our commitment to the U.S. market,” said Rodolfo Bitar, VP of Business Development for PVH USA. “By expanding our presence in Houston, we are not only investing in local economic development but also ensuring we can better serve our customers with faster turnaround times and the highest quality products that are 100% domestically made.”

With the expansion, PVH USA continues to align its strategy with increased customer demand, supply chain resilience and developing solutions that help solar facilities upgrade and expand their capabilities. In recent months, the company has launched a series of innovative advancements that help solar facilities generate more energy during overcast weather, withstand extreme weather events and expand the types of terrain suitable for solar installations.  

Solar tracking technologies help to maximize solar power generation by automatically moving solar panels to follow the sun throughout the day, optimizing the angle at which panels receive solar radiation. Established in San Francisco in 2008, PVH has been at the forefront of innovation in solar tracking technology, developing systems and products that can adapt optimally to different terrains, inclinations, and climates. In addition, the company’s proprietary pre-assembly process can reduce installation times by 40%, which will be critical to rapidly expanding solar power capacity to meet increasing demand for electricity.

PV Hardware | https://pvhardware.com/

Artıbir Enerji, a Turkish renewable energy company and RES, the world’s largest independent renewable energy company, have signed Türkiye’s first long-term international and independent wind turbine operation and maintenance (O&M) contract.

The agreement covers Artıbir Enerji’s Yeniköy and Yılmaz wind farms, located in Canakkale and Izmir, with a total of 8 Siemens-Gamesa SG132 3.75 MW turbines (30 MW capacity).

This pioneering deal marks a turning point for Türkiye’s wind sector, setting a new benchmark for asset management and boosting investor confidence.

RES will deliver scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and 24/7 remote control services. It will also provide support for main components such as blades, gearboxes, and generators, as well as procurement support for spare parts when needed.

Geert Dooms, General Manager of RES Türkiye, said: “This agreement represents RES’s first services contract in Türkiye and introduces a new independent model for long-term turbine maintenance. By bringing our global know-how into Türkiye’s growing renewables market, we are creating a trusted blueprint for the sector and unlocking new value for investors.”

Güray Erol, General Manager of Artıbir Enerji, said: “This agreement with RES not only secures the operation and maintenance of our wind farms but also opens a new chapter for Türkiye’s renewable energy sector. By requesting the flow of internationally accumulated expertise and targeting to increase our availability rates, we aim to deliver more efficient and reliable clean energy for Türkiye’s growing demand. Combining our local strength with RES’s global expertise, we are proud to enhance our contribution to Türkiye’s clean energy transition.”

Artıbir Enerji | www.artibirenerji.com.tr

RES | www.res-group.com

Oceantic Network announced that registration is now open for the 2026 International Partnering Forum (IPF), taking place February 9–12, 2026, in New York City. IPF is the premier technical and business conference for offshore wind and marine renewable energy (MRE), and this year’s program will feature an expanded focus on emerging ocean-based energy technologies and their alignment with the global offshore wind supply chain. Offshore wind remains a cost-competitive, domestic energy source that’s faster to deploy than traditional energy sources and is a critical component to meeting our country’s rising energy demands and lowering electricity costs. 

2026 IPF will spotlight the Northeast region’s leadership in advancing clean energy innovation, coastal infrastructure, and supply chain development. Local investments in steel manufacturing, shipbuilding, ports, and transmission infrastructure are well positioned to foster innovative, integrated marine energy development across the region. Attendees will also gain insights on the emerging Canadian market and explore the host of opportunities it presents for American suppliers. 

“Our 2026 IPF Energy at Sea Conference will convene the companies, policymakers, investors, and innovators building the next generation of marine renewable energy solutions,” said Liz Burdock, CEO of Oceantic Network. “Oceantic is proud to deliver its 13th consecutive conference, bringing IPF back to the Northeast, to lead the charge to advance a robust and local supply chain ready to build the next-gen ocean economy here in the U.S.”   

Under the 2026 theme “Reimagine. Renew. Reignite.”, IPF 2026 will bring together global industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators to analyze market developments to date, explore cross-sector collaboration, and enact forward-looking, sustainable strategies to shape the future of the industry. The conference will feature technical workshops across a number of programming tracks, market insights from global experts, and a host of networking opportunities and events with attendees. Proceeds from IPF directly fund Oceantic Network’s work to expand the U.S. supply chain and deliver industry-leading, accredited education and collaboration platforms. 

For more information about 2026 IPF, including registration details and sponsorship opportunities, visit https://2026ipf.com. Hotel reservations can be made online. 

Oceantic Network | https://oceantic.org/

Against a backdrop of changing market demands and policy-making contexts, ENERCON is repositioning itself and can now offer its customers an expanded portfolio of products and solutions. Following the successful inclusion of the high-yield E-175 EP5 into the model range, partners can now choose from a comprehensive range of modular solutions for the design of hybrid power plants. ENERCON's objective: to always enable customers to achieve an attractive added value from their green energy project.

‘With this repositioning we are changing from a wind turbine manufacturer that offers servicing to an active provider of solutions and an enabler for the networked green energy ecosystem, with our wind turbines on centre stage’, says ENERCON CEO Udo Bauer. ‘This offers us the opportunity to actively shape the next phase of the energy transition together with our customers, and to help build an integrated, interlinked renewable energy system.’

New paths for connected solutions

As a pioneer of green power generation, ENERCON has vast experience and expertise and has always thought beyond wind energy alone. ‘Together with our customers and partners we are embarking on new ways of combining the diverse elements of the green energy ecosystem into intelligently networked solutions – from power generation through to storage and feeding into the grid’, says Bauer. ‘We are not doing all this by ourselves; we are open to partnerships, collaborations and new solutions.’

‘We are underlining this change by also relaunching our brand’, adds Bauer. ‘The new brand identity will make our culture of openness, networking and holistic future outlook something that can be seen and experienced. In visual terms as well as content, it is a reflection of what we stand for today: determined in our responsibility towards our customers, our environment and our employees, convinced of the future of green energy and committed to the intelligent linking of technologies, people and markets. With this new brand story we want to show that we do not just build wind turbines, but also seek to help our customers to unlock the full potential of their green energy solutions – both today and in the markets of tomorrow.’

‍More complex framework conditions

Changing conditions are making it increasingly complex and more challenging for onshore operators to generate and market green energy profitably. Many of the countries with regulated markets are pulling out of remuneration systems with guaranteed feed-in tariffs. The green kilowatt-hour produced is becoming a commodity that is traded on the energy market and has to be profitable. Furthermore, governments are now making demands on the economic viability of the energy system, for a more effective use of the grid infrastructure, for more constant energy production and grid feed, and for grid stabilisation and lower generation and system costs. ENERCON wants to offer its customers the maximum support in boosting the value of the kilowatt-hour.

In the new solutions it offers, the company is taking a holistic approach to the ‘green energy ecosystem’. ‘By this we mean the overall energy system that is now undergoing transformation – including renewable power generating units, energy storage systems, transmission and distribution networks, high-voltage substations, supply to large industrial consumers and domestic electricity customers’, says Udo Bauer. ‘To give more value to wind energy, we are incorporating this ecosystem and interlinking our solution modules in an intelligent manner.’

Comprehensive solution portfolio based on wind turbines

The offerings include solutions for the areas of ‘End-to-end project Engineering’, ‘Connected Operation’ and ‘Smart Optimisation’. Customers can choose from these modules to suit their objectives. ENERCON’s smart wind turbines continue to form the basis of this approach. The focus is on the new top-of-the-range model, the E-175 EP5, which is experiencing strong market demand. Its superb performance and yield properties, dependable technology, the highest quality standards and versatility for combination with other solution modules all offer the best conditions for optimum customer benefits and diverse added value advantages, irrespective of the project profile or the configuration of the solution portfolio.‍

ENERCON supports the planning and implementation of customers’ projects. If desired, hybrid power plants comprising a wind farm, battery storage system and grid connection can be developed. And for the management and control of the project solutions created, ENERCON offers interlinked options (such as system monitoring, proactive maintenance, repair and spare parts management and optional protection packages for cybersecurity). In addition, ENERCON takes care of the ongoing operational optimisation. Operators can take advantage of performance upgrades (e.g. yield or load-optimised operating modes or reduced-noise operation) that keep their systems at a competitive level so that they benefit from a significant added value from their project even in later phases of operation.

ENERCON | https://www.enercon.de/en

ARRAY Technologies (NASDAQ: ARRY) (“ARRAY” or the “Company”), a leading global provider of solar tracking technology products, software, services and foundation solutions, announced today that its DuraTrack and OmniTrack systems have been verified by Intertek to be compatible with 2000-volt (2kV) module-wired systems. This milestone reinforces ARRAY's commitment to delivering forward looking solutions that drive efficiency and cost savings for the solar industry.

“With this verification, ARRAY proves again that we are at the forefront of solar innovation,” said Aaron Gabelnick, chief strategy and technology officer at ARRAY Technologies. “As the industry moves toward 2,000-volt architectures to enhance efficiency and reduce costs, our tracking systems are already equipped to meet these evolving needs. Our customers can be confident that ARRAY is delivering technology designed for the future, today.”

Intertek, a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide, conducted a comprehensive review of ARRAY's trackers under UL 3703 and UL 2703 standards, confirming that the company’s tracking systems meet the necessary technical requirements for 2kV system operation without requiring additional modifications. This validation underscores ARRAY’s readiness to support the industry’s transition to higher-voltage architectures, which enable improved electrical efficiency and lower system costs.

By increasing system voltage from 1,500V to 2,000V, solar projects may reduce electrical losses, lower material costs, and improve overall system performance. ARRAY’s long-row system architecture, available on DuraTrack and OmniTrack, further enhances efficiency, making it easier for developers and EPCs to optimize system design while reducing the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE).

Intertek’s review confirms that ARRAY’s trackers align with industry safety and performance standards, supporting their compatibility with next-generation solar technologies.

ARRAY Technologies | www.arraytechinc.com