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June 20, 2022
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Borrego, Nexamp start Winthrop Solar Farm construction, project supports Maine health center
June 16, 2022
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Cal Solar launches EPC services division
June 16, 2022
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Sunnova teams with Maryland’s Montgomery County Green Bank on LMI solar loan program
June 16, 2022
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Connecticut YMCA adds rooftop solar via Greenskies, Titan Energy
June 16, 2022
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Power plays: Does Hawaii show the way forward in the...

Net metering has recently taken state legislatures and media headlines by storm — and for good reason. The average American homeowner ...

June 16, 2022
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Google and SVCE devise a carbon-free energy plan

Renewable energy accounting by commercial and governmental entities has followed global guidelines based on annual generation and usage. His...

June 15, 2022
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Russelectric created Switchgear Simulators to train renewable energy, microgrid personnel

Russelectric, a Siemens Business, is debuting Switchgear Simulators to train renewable energy and microgrid personnel on automatic and manua...

June 15, 2022
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Barrio Eléctrico partners with Electriq Power to install more solar...

Puerto Rico suffers from frequent, widespread outages and catastrophic post-storm outages that impact the nearly 1.5 million homes that the ...

June 15, 2022
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Longroad Energy seeks more DG solar, invests in Valta Energy

Longroad Energy announced a strategic investment in Valta Energy, a Dana Point, CA-based developer, owner, and operator of distributed gener...

June 15, 2022
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Alliant Energy ready to construct 414-MW of new solar projects

Construction moving forward on six solar projects totaling 414 megawatts (MW) after Wisconsin regulators gave final approval to Alliant Ener...

June 15, 2022
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Lumin pilots demand response program to pay customers for reducing...

Energy prices are soaring, net metering is under fire, and solar + storage system owners could use all the financial incentives they can get...

June 15, 2022
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Asbury Park schools to save $120,000 annually via Solar Landscape...

Solar Landscape has energized more than 3,300 solar panels on four schools across the Asbury Park School District. All in, that’s more...

June 14, 2022
Inverters and eBOS apsystems
APsystems moves U.S. main office to Austin, Texas

APsystems is moving its U.S. base of operations to Austin, Texas from its longtime home of Seattle. The new location, at 8701 North MoPac Ex...

June 13, 2022
News battery buyers guide
Solar + Storage Battery Buyer’s Guide 2022

Seemed like just the other day that lithium-ion batteries started to attach to solar PV systems, mostly the nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) va...

June 13, 2022
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Ecofasten GF-1 with RockIt slide added to Florida’s approved solar...

Solar installers know that Florida Product Approval means a more efficient permitting process because the strict requirements of the 2020 Fl...

June 13, 2022
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Automated solar permitting effort aligns with International Building Codes, says...

The International Code Council has determined that the Solar Automated Permit Processing Platform (SolarAPP+) aligns with the 2018 Internati...

June 13, 2022
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Standard Solar, SolarPark Energy developed a 7.1-MW community solar in...

In March, New York officials announced the state had reached a considerable milestone — more than 1 GW of community solar generation c...

June 13, 2022
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Construction of Mississippi’s largest solar project complete

Construction is complete on a 100-MW solar project near Ruleville in the Mississippi Delta — the first plant the state’s upcomin...

June 13, 2022
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Boviet Solar modules on the move to U.S. utility-scale solar...

Modules are on the move again. Boviet Solar says it signed a contract to provide 255 MW of PV modules to an undisclosed leading global renew...

June 13, 2022