{"id":246,"date":"2025-11-26T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/why-smarter-interconnection-must-power-the-next-phase-of-solar-growth\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:00:10","slug":"why-smarter-interconnection-must-power-the-next-phase-of-solar-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/why-smarter-interconnection-must-power-the-next-phase-of-solar-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Smarter Interconnection Must Power the Next Phase of Solar Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for distributed generation (DG) solar has never been higher, yet many projects are getting stuck before they even break ground. The problem is utility interconnection. For community or net metered solar systems in the 1 MW to 5 MW range, in particular, the utility\u2019s review of whether the grid can handle new power [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/why-smarter-interconnection-must-power-the-next-phase-of-solar-growth\/\">Why Smarter Interconnection Must Power the Next Phase of Solar Growth<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"650\" height=\"488\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Fig2-aerial-view-of-solar-panels-under-construction-envato_c\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fig2-aerial-view-of-solar-panels-under-construction-envato-c.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fig2-aerial-view-of-solar-panels-under-construction-envato-c.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fig2-aerial-view-of-solar-panels-under-construction-envato-c-300x225.jpg 300w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for distributed generation (DG) solar has never been higher, yet many projects are getting stuck before they even break ground. The problem is utility interconnection. For community or net <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distributed-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}