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South Coast Solar Installs System at Abita Brewing Co.

South Coast Solar LLC of New Orleans, a leading solar design-build contractor, has announced the installation of a grid connected 85-kW...

SEIA Offers Industry Proposal to End U.S.-China Solar Dispute

With no end in sight to the ongoing solar trade dispute between the United States and China, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) ...

Solar Exchange Launches With $28 Million in Goods in First...

Solar Exchange has successfully launched its cloud-based commerce platform which automates the buying and selling of goods for the solar ind...

Washington Gas Energy Systems to Build 672-kW Solar Project

Washington Gas Energy Systems Inc. announced it has signed a contract with Western University of Health Sciences to build, own and operate a...

Main Street Power to Install Solar at Two Connecticut Schools

Main Street Power Company Inc., in partnership with MS Solar Solutions Corp., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, today a...

Fronius USA Announces Four Service Program Training Sessions

Fronius USA will host four Fronius Service Program training sessions at locations across the United States during October and November. Laun...

Commercial Segment Set to Lead Solar Energy Storage Market by...

Currently the smallest part of the global solar energy storage business, the commercial sector is projected to expand by a factor of 700 in ...

Most New Residential PV Projects in California Not Owned by...

One of the biggest developments in the U.S. residential solar photovoltaic (PV) market over the past few years has been the significant grow...

Energy Capital Group to Develop 300-MW Solar Plant in Utah

Energy Capital Group LLC (ECG) is developing ECG Utah Solar 1 a 300-MW solar plant adjacent to the Intermountain Power Plant (IPP). This wil...

MSR Innovations Introduces New Solar Roofing Product SolTrak

MSR Innovations, a leading supplier of residential solar roofing, is bringing a new solar roofing product, SolTrak, to the North American ma...

Chevron Energy Solutions Installs Solar for California City

The City of Livermore, Calif., has launched an innovative sustainability program expected to significantly reduce its energy costs, stimulat...

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New Blueprint for Rooftop Solar Analysis

A web-based program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy redraws the approach for finding a property’s solar potential. Web-based t...

Intelligence to the Rescue!

Rules and regulations may try to hold them back, but smart inverters will soon be an integral piece of the solar puzzle. Inverters are an im...

Thinking Inside the Box

Partnering with big box stores allows solar installers to increase job prospects. National big box retailers like Costco, Lowe’s and H...

Putting Roofs Before Solar

EcoFasten Solar uses its roofing expertise to manufacture solar attachment hardware. Shingles, tiles, slates, metal, rubber, thermoplastic, ...

Solar Power International Showcase

The solar energy industry is in high gear and at Solar Power International 2013 (SPI), October 21-24 at the McCormick Place in Chicago, part...

Q&A With Trojan Battery Company

Solar Builder spent some time talking with Dean Middleton, director of renewable energy sales for Trojan Battery Co., about the basics of us...

The Indy 24,000 kW

The Indiana state capital motors its way into the solar record books. The intense sound of power echoes off the coliseum of the Indianapolis...

The Rise of Content Marketing

By using social media and blogging, solar companies can present themselves as experts in a competitive, wide-spread industry. Within the pas...

SolarWorld Completes 1.1-MW System at Water Treatment Plant

The cities of Fairfield and Vacaville, Calif., have announced the completion of a 1.1-MW solar system designed, procured and constructed by ...