Residential solar surge collides with grid and policy limits

This cluster highlights how a rapid uptick in residential solar—illustrated by a surge of traffic and installs on the EnergySage marketplace ahead of the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) step-down—is reshaping both markets and infrastructure. A featured video asks whether solar is “breaking the grid,” pointing to challenges like intermittency, grid congestion, and the need for storage and smarter planning. Together, these posts show how incentive-driven adoption is accelerating faster than many grids and regulations were designed for, forcing utilities, regulators, and homeowners to rethink how solar is integrated and compensated. The tension between encouraging more solar and maintaining grid reliability is emerging as a central energy-policy challenge for the coming decade.