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April 6, 2022
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Entegrity Energy Partners starts second phase of solar project at Arkansas wastewater treatment plant
April 6, 2022
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McCarthy Building Companies completes construction of Michigan’s largest solar farm
April 6, 2022
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Assessing AD/CVD: The impact of the circumvention trade case and bleak outlook for U.S. solar market
April 5, 2022
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Kokosing construction company jumps into solar industry by acquiring Third Sun Solar
April 5, 2022
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Cross-mating solar PV connectors? Know that testing is not certification

Damage to photovoltaic systems caused by cross-mating of different PV connector brands is a recurring issue. Stäubli, home of the MC4 c...

April 4, 2022
News BYD battery test results
BYD and inverter partners top HWT’s energy storage efficiency rankings

For the fifth consecutive time, the Battery-Box system by BYD Co. Ltd., ranked among the most efficient energy storage systems in the evalua...

April 4, 2022
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Two Tier 1 module manufacturers hit efficiency records for TOPCon...

LONGi achieves new world record for indium-free HJT cell efficiency Two of the top global module manufacturers hit new efficiency records la...

April 4, 2022
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LS Energy’s first AiON-ESS battery system installed in New Jersey

LS Energy Solutions delivered its first all-in-one AiON Energy Storage System (AiON-ESS) to V20 Energy, a New Jersey-based storage project d...

April 4, 2022
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10 exhibit hall standouts from 2022 NABCEP CE conference

We traveled to Phoenix last week for the 2022 NABCEP Continuing Education Conference. As always, the sessions were in-depth and informative,...

April 4, 2022
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Green Mountain Power pilots Enphase-powered grid services program

Vermont’s progressive utility Green Mountain Power (GMP) announced its latest battery service tech deal with Enphase. GMP will offer E...

April 4, 2022
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SunPower kicks off Dealer Accelerator program with investments in Freedom...

SunPower sees the solar industry is at a strategic inflection point. Residential solar installers surpassed half a million installations in ...

April 4, 2022
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Solar industry groups publish toolkit to improve energy storage interconnection...

Energy storage deployment is growing and interconnection rules have, for the most part, not yet been updated to reflect best practices on ho...

March 30, 2022
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FirstLight Power teams with Borrego to build solar + storage...

2 MW Northfield Mountain Solar Class I renewable solar generation facility located in Western Massachusetts. Northeast clean energy develope...

March 30, 2022
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PV Evolution Labs adds drone inspection for U.S. solar sites...

PVEL QE-Labs Drone EL Testing PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) and Quantified Energy Labs Pte. Ltd. (QE-Labs) signed an exclusive agreement to provi...

March 30, 2022
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DESRI, Ranger Power bring Assembly II and III solar arrays...

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) in partnership with Ranger Power have reached commercial operation of the Assembly II and Asse...

March 30, 2022
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Greenskies completes 6.1 MW solar array to benefit five Connecticut...

Greenskies Clean Focus completed the second of nine offsite solar systems planned for the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU)...

March 30, 2022
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How Tesla dropped to fourth in U.S. solar market share...

Despite rising costs and supply chain woes, U.S. residential solar continued to grow nearly 30% year-on-year in 2021, reaching a record-brea...

March 30, 2022
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Utility-scale batteries? VPP programs? Both? How states are valuing energy...

Assigning value to energy storage is a complex task that is becoming more organized, if not easier, after years of explosive storage adoptio...

March 30, 2022
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Solar power production anomalies continued to rise in 2021 according...

Here’s an especially great image from the report. Large-scale solar power production anomalies continue to rise, according to the four...

March 30, 2022