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SunWize Appoints New CEO

SunWize Technologies Inc. has appointed Scott Tonn as chief executive officer, and has elected him to the company’s board of directors...

eIQ Energy Enables Largest-Ever Solar System with Distributed Electronics

eIQ Energy Inc. announced today that Granite Construction Inc. has commissioned a new 1.2-MW solar system at Granite’s aggregate and h...

SunPeak Solar Chooses Schneider Electric PV Boxes for 23-MW Farm

  Schneider Electric has been selected by SunPeak Solar LLC, a privately-owned solar energy project developer, to supply 25 solar power...

Signal Energy Completes Construction on 10.8-MW Solar Farm

Signal Energy LLC, a design/build general contractor to the North American renewable energy industry, completed construction on a 10.8-MW so...

First Solar Measures Its Carbon Footprint

First Solar Inc. announced that the company participated in and received a score on its inaugural response to the Carbon Disclosure Project ...

Exelon, Constellation Strengthen Merger Proposal

Exelon Corp. and Constellation Energy today filed rebuttal testimony with the Maryland Public Service Commission that strengthens the c...

SOLON: SOLquick rooftop installation aide

SOLON Corp., a provider of turnkey solar power plants and PV products in the U.S., recently launched SOLquick, a patent pending new plug-and...

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Suntech Celebrates 10th Anniversary With 5-GW Milestone

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. , a producer of solar panels, celebrated its 10th anniversary by announcing that more than 5 GW of Suntech ...

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Hawaii PUC Approves SunPower-Hawaiian Electric Contract for 5-MW Solar Farm

The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved a contract for SunPower to sell energy to Hawaiian Electric Company from a 5-MW so...

Install of 1-MW Winery Solar Power System Begins in Oregon

King Estate Winery, an Oregon producer of Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir, is teaming up with SolarCity, a national leader in solar power design, ...

sonnen_systems Opens North American Headquarters

sonnen_systems Inc., a global manufacturer of dual-axis tracking systems, is expanding its operations in North America. Customers in the U.S...

Molex: SolarSpec panel-mount DC connectors

Molex Inc. has further expanded its range of SolarSpec products with the development of pin (male) and socket (female) panel-mount DC connec...

AET
AETI: 1,000-volt solar inverters

Houston-based American Electric Technologies Inc. (AETI) today announced the introduction of two new models in its 1,000-volt, Integrated So...

Unirac: Improved ISYS ground mount

Unirac Inc., North America’s leading provider of infrastructure for solar power systems, today announced the newest generation of...

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Solaria Receives 2011 Breakthrough Award

Today, Popular Mechanics announced that Solaria Corporation, a solar module manufacturer, was honored as a winner at its annual Breakthrough...

Indium Corp.: No-Clean Liquid Tabbing Flux

Indium Corp. will feature its family of PV Module Assembly Materials, including their industry-adopted GS-3434 No-Clean Liquid Tabbing Flux,...

Mayberry Goes Solar

Mount Airy, N.C., the birthplace of Andy Griffith and the basis for his popular show’s town “Mayberry,” has gone solar. &l...

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SunPower Aims to Begin Construction on 25-MW Farm Before End...

SunPower Corp. announced it expects to start construction on the 25-MW  McHenry Solar Farm in Modesto, Calif., before the end...

SunDurance, Kyocera Complete Parking Canopy at the Univ. of Texas

SunDurance Energy and its project partners, Kyocera Solar and Solaire Generation, announced they have completed a 300 kW PV system for The U...

Renewvia Energy and PSE&G Cut Ribbon on 1.26-MW Solar Project

Renewvia Energy Corp., Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) and two Renewvia Energy partners cut the ribbon on a 1.26-MW sola...