On March 15, 2024, thousands of solar panels installed at the 3,300-acre Fighting Jays Solar Farm in Fort Bend County, Houston, Texas, were damaged after a powerful hailstorm hit the area. Even as ...

When golf ball-sized hail started hammering Texas last spring, solar panels across the state faced their ultimate test. The verdict? Most panels emerged unscathed, proving that today's solar ...

Terrasmart is rolling out a new stow feature for its single-axis tracker that can protect solar panels from destructive hailstorms. Terrasmart focuses on optimizing the performance and efficiency of ...

Nextracker’s NX Horizon Hail Pro offers an industry-first solar tracker solution to the threat of hailstorms for utility-scale solar installations. This holistic package leverages Nextracker’s ...

Canadian Solar's (CSIQ) new anti-hail technology is set to be installed at a new South Australian solar BESS energy project by Flow Power, enhancing the resilience of solar energy in Australia's harsh ...

Rooftop solar panels and complimentary battery storage units have become a popular option for Houstonians looking to minimize power disruptions during extreme weather events. Solar owners, however, ...

In 2019, a hailstorm at the Midway Solar project in West Texas caused the destruction of 400,000 of the plant’s 685,000 photovoltaic panels, in one of the most glaring examples of the extreme weather ...

Array Technologies, a utility-scale PV tracker supplier, said at the RE+ solar industry conference in September that it is developing a new solar tracker with a 77-degree stowing tilt capability. The ...

It’s a solar panel system’s worst nightmare: a hail storm. Array Technologies last week announced it was offering a new product, Hail Alert Response, which relies on patented technology invented in ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a way to protect solar panels against hail and other wind-blown storm debris," said an inventor, from Marquez, Texas, "so I ...

GCube Insurance (GCube), an underwriter for renewable energy has released a report stating that the solar industry needs to confront the escalating frequency and severity of hailstorms with pragmatic, ...

Invasive Scud Is Threatening the Great Lakes. Pollution Might Be Helping to Keep It Back. ‘Renewable’ No More: The Trump Administration Renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Factory Farms ...