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Maryland’s Largest Rooftop Solar Array Finished at IKEA

IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today officially plugged-in the solar energy system installed at its distribution...

First 17 MW of Foothills Solar Power Plant in Arizona...

Arizona Public Service Co. and AMEC, an international engineering and project management company, announced the completion of the first 17 M...

Two SunPower Systems Under Construction in California

SunPower Corp. announced construction is underway on two solar power projects for Yolo County, Calif. The projects are expected to gene...

S&C Electric Chooses ReneSola Modules for 1.8-MW Project

ReneSola has been contracted to provide 7,200 of its 250-watt high-efficiency polycrystalline solar PV modules for a solar project to be bui...

Georgetown University Installs Solar Panels on Six Historic Townhouses

Georgetown University is going solar with SolarCity on a project that is expected to cut the school’s energy bills by tens of tho...

US Commerce Dept Finds Chinese Solar Importers Misreporting Merchandise

The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce has taken the extraordinary measure of ...

SolarVision’s 5-MW Project Commissioned in Ohio

The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund today announced the final commissioning and term financing of the 5-MW Celina, Ohio, so...

First Solar Acquires 60-MW Project from NorthLight

First Solar Inc. and NorthLight Power LLC today announced that First Solar has acquired the 60-MW-AC North Star solar project that Nort...

Advanced Energy Strengthens Competitive Postition with REFUsol

The below is IHS’ solar analyst team’s assessment of U.S.-based Advanced Energy’s acquisition of German supplier REFUsol. ...

Duke Energy Renewables Acquires Projects from SolarWorld

Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, today announced it has acquired two commercial solar power projects near ...

Advanced Energy Acquires REFUsol, Effective Immediately

Advanced Energy Industries Inc. announced it has acquired REFUsol Holding GmbH, a leading provider of three-phase string solar PV inverters ...

Venture Capital Funding in Solar Continues to Slump in 2013

Mercom Capital Group, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions ...

20-kW Tracker System Commissioned in Ontario by i-Energy

i-Energy, a Taiwan-based leading developer and supplier of advanced photovoltaic power conversion and optimization products, announced the s...

Renewable Energy Provides 82% of New U.S. Energy in 1Q...

According to the latest “Energy Infrastructure Update” report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of En...

Enfinity Completes 10 Solar Sites for California School District

Solar energy project developer Enfinity America Corporation today announced the completion of a portfolio of solar photovoltaic (P...

ReneSola to Power Five 6.5-MW Strata Solar Farms

ReneSola Ltd., a leading global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and wafers, today announced it has agreed to provide more th...

Global PV Installations to Exceed 35 GW

Global photovoltaic (PV) installations are forecast to exceed 35 gigawatts (GW) in 2013, equivalent to growth of 12 percent, according to re...

Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Installs Solar System on Business Roof

At 9 a.m. Saturday, April 6, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of tech companies Twitter and Square, will join his parents, Tim and Marcia Dorsey,...

Washington Gas Energy Systems to Build 3.8-MW Solar Array

Washington Gas Energy Systems, Inc. today announced it has signed a contract with the town of Bellingham, Mass. to build, own and operate a ...

SunPower Dedicates First Commercial Deployment of Concentrating Technology

Salt River Project (SRP) and SunPower Corp. today are dedicating a 1-MW solar photovoltaic power plant at Arizona State University’s (...