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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas, May 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- FTC Solar (FTCI), Inc. (Nasdaq: FTCI) a leading provider of innovative solar energy solutions, announces the launch of its Automated Hail Stow Solution, ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FTC Solar, Inc. (FTCI), a leading innovator in solar tracking systems and software, today announced the launch of automated 80° high angle stow ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Indji Systems has released a major update to its hail monitoring and alerting platform, Indji Watch, following a comprehensive enhancement by its R&D team. The new system ...

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 ...

When a baseball-size hailstone slams into a solar panel at more than 90 mph, the result is not pretty. We saw this in March, when a hailstorm decimated parts of the 350-megawatt Fighting Jays solar ...