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Chris Crowell
May 17, 2022
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Lion Energy orders 18 GWh of LFP battery cells from U.S.-based American Battery Factory
May 16, 2022
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Franz Bakery to achieve Net Zero at outlet store with six dual-axis solar trackers
May 16, 2022
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Pine Gate Renewables going big on new battery technology for solar, storage projects
May 16, 2022
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Fifth Third, PowerPay and CommonBond expand their home solar loan programs
May 16, 2022
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Schneider Electric smart panel now available for homes in California

Schneider Electric‘s Square D Energy Center smart panel is now available for purchase in California and installation in new residentia...

May 16, 2022
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REC rolling out Alpha Pure-R solar panels for residential markets...

REC Group gave a peek at its latest high-efficiency solar panel at Intersolar Europe 2022, targeted at residential roofs with limited space....

May 16, 2022
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Homebuilder HWS to include Salient’s zinc-ion batteries in over 200,000...

Zinc is starting to emerge as an indie battery storage chemistry alternative to the stadium rock band that is lithium. Salient Energy is one...

May 16, 2022
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Rystad Energy: ‘This could be the most disruptive event ever...

Circumvention investigation impacts continue to tally. According to new research from Rystad Energy, as much as 17.5 GWac of new U.S. solar ...

May 16, 2022
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SunPower to start selling solar systems via IKEA

IKEA U.S. and SunPower Corp. are partnering so that members of the IKEA customer loyalty program will be able to purchase home solar solutio...

May 12, 2022
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Georgia’s 68-MW Houston Solar project now online, via Silicon Ranch,...

Green Power EMC, the renewable energy supplier for 38 Georgia Electric Membership Corporations (EMCs), and independent solar power producers...

May 12, 2022
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Hanwha to build GW-scale solar module plant in United States,...

Hanwha Solutions has hinted at big U.S. expansion plans recently (tied to passage of the stalled Solar Energy Manufacturing for America bill...

May 12, 2022
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CleanCapital closes $200M ‘accordion’ credit facility to expand solar portfolio

CleanCapital closed on a credit facility of up to $200 million to support its pipeline of distributed solar and energy storage projects. Rab...

May 11, 2022
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Largest direct-use solar array in the U.S. being built at...

Decarbonization is happening in just about every industry. Flint Hills Resources is moving ahead with a solar project at its oil refinery th...

May 11, 2022
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Keeping solar project development on track in 2022

As the country emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the solar industry continues to grapple with the rippling effects. While last year’...

May 11, 2022
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REsurety: Renewable energy markets set negative pricing record set in...

The U.S. power grid saw record lows in the first quarter of 2022, according to REsurety’s REmap Q1 2022 State of the Renewables Market...

May 11, 2022
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Floating solar PV standards being developed by DNV

Floating solar PV (FPV) is intriguing. As large-scale ground-mounted PV development becomes more and more challenging due to difficult terra...

May 11, 2022
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SolaREIT acquires land assets underneath 350 acres of solar projects

Solar development is land and capital intensive and is often time consuming and difficult for solar developers to unlock the value of the so...

May 10, 2022
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Community solar capital: Common Energy nets $16.5M investment from S2G...

Common Energy received a $16.5 million investment by S2G Ventures this week, the direct investment team of Builders Vision. The new round of...

May 10, 2022
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Pilot program to aggregate home solar, storage demand in East...

Solarize Eastie was announced by East Boston this week, a pilot program to increase solar panel installation and onsite battery storage. In ...

May 10, 2022