Summit Ridge Energy and Qcells have extended their community solar partnership with a 2GW PV module supply agreement to support their development pipeline and develop over 100 additional community solar projects across the US. Most of the solar panels will be produced in Qcell’s vertically integrated solar PV plant in Georgia. The extended partnership is supported by the Inflation Reduction Act, through tax incentives for domestic energy production and manufacturing. This partnership supports domestic manufacturing and job creation, while supporting low-cost clean energy to communities left out of the clean energy transition. In other US community solar news, engineering company Castillo Engineering has been named as the Engineer of Record (EOR) for three portfolios of solar projects in Illinois.

Solar Dominates US Energy Capacity Growth
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has published data showing that solar accounted for over 75% of US electrical generating







