Here comes community solar 3.0... and other news

The big feature story on our site this week was from reporter Maeve Allsup on how community solar, on its ascension from niche market to grid resource, could act as a partner for virtual power plants. Maeve interviewed folks across the arena, from Jeff Cramer , president and CEO of the Coalition for Community Solar Access , to Nexamp chairman and CEO Zaid Ahmad Ashai , to Joel Gamoran , the vice president and general manager of energy services at Arcadia .

We're in the midst of an important shift towards community solar 3.0, but still, the industry is going through growing pains. You can read more on the site.

In other market expansion news, Crux released a new report this week that details continued momentum in the nascent but growing clean energy tax credit market. CEO Alfred Johnson says that transfers of renewable tax credits could balloon to nearly $20 billion in 2024. Contributor Emma Foehringer Merchant broke the news on the site.

There's a great line-up of new podcasts, including the latest Catalyst episode on battery recycling, The Carbon Copy's look inside Apple's attempt to build an electric autonomous car, and an interview on Columbia Energy Exchange with an Environmental Defense Fund executive who remains wary of the climate impact of clean hydrogen.

And our next live, virtual, and free event is coming up in just a month! Transition-AI: Can the Grid Handle AI's Power Demand? on May 8th will feature Latitude's Stephen Lacey , Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC 's Michelle Solomon , Soluna 's John Belizaire , and Cloverleaf Infrastructure 's Brian Janous in conversation on whether — and how — the grid can handle the energy demands of the AI boom. You can register for the event here.

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