New Jersey is trying to protect rooftop and other small-scale solar projects from the kind of developer failure that has affected projects across the country as installers wrestle with rising costs and interest rates.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge has approved a settlement agreement between ERCOT and Brazos Electric in the cooperative's Chapter 11 bankruptcy hearing.

Brazos Electric has offered to pay ERCOT as much as $1.44 billion, settling its dispute with the Texas grid operator over market prices after the winter storm.