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Texas-energy-storage-construction Burns & McDonnell complete three 20-MWh energy storage systems in West Texas
Chris Crowell
January 19, 2022
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News PPA price rise
LevelTen: Solar PPA prices rise, volumes decrease and other findings from Q4 2021
January 19, 2022
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Connecticut launches statewide battery storage incentive program
January 19, 2022
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OYA Solar raises $35 million to accelerate construction of its 3 GW solar pipeline
January 19, 2022
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DSD acquires 11.79 MWs of community solar from Mainely Solar
January 19, 2022
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New Energy Equity, Cedar Creek Energy ready to work on...

New Energy Equity is teaming with solar garden and eco-village housing developer Engineering Concepts and Minnesota solar EPC Cedar Cre...

January 19, 2022
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Standard Solar acquires Maryland community solar project

Standard Solar has acquired the 2.9 MW Klees Mill community solar project in Carroll County, Maryland, from developer partners Ogos Ene...

January 19, 2022
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Sungrow’s 1+X Modular central solar inverter makes international debut

Sungrow Launches “1+X” Modular Inverter at World Future Energy Summit, 2022 Sungrow launched the brand new 1+X Modular central i...

January 19, 2022
News Purchase order sheet
Honeywell purchasing 19 GWh of battery cells from FREYR for...

Honeywell and FREYR Battery signed a significant agreement this week to provide smart energy storage solutions for a wide range of commercia...

January 19, 2022
Batteries Volta-rps50
Viridi nets nearly $100M for ‘fail-safe’ lithium-ion battery tech in...

Viridi Parente Inc. has raised $94.695 million in a Series C funding round, its latest step toward delivering a “fail-safe, point-of-u...

January 17, 2022
Mounting Guide AI-clearing-solar
AI Clearing debuts AI Surveyor for utility-scale solar construction

Utility scale solar farm development presents several unique challenges. The sheer volume of objects installed on large solar farms can rend...

January 17, 2022
Financing Q-CELLS-and-KSI
Q CELLS partners with Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure to ‘de-risk’ energy...

Q CELLS North America is partnering with Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure, LLC (KSI) to collaborate on project co-development and financin...

January 17, 2022
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BayWa r.e. to distribute PanelClaw solar mounting systems

BayWa r.e. Solar Systems is starting up distribution of PanelClaw’s clawFR platform for commercial rooftops, now shipping from its rec...

January 17, 2022
News Palmetto
Palmetto expands solar sales opportunities to pros in complimentary industries

Palmetto introduced a new Palmetto Sales Plus Program to extend solar sales process efficiencies to companies in complementary industries &n...

January 17, 2022
+ Storage Yotta-Solar
Cal Solar to deploy solar panel-level storage systems to meet...

Yotta Energy is joining forces with Cal Solar Inc., a solar and energy storage design-build engineer and contractor for new commercial and m...

January 17, 2022
+ Storage PearlX
PearlX teams with SolarEdge on a community solar + storage...

Multifamily and rental applications are a tough market for solar +storage, but announced last week at Intersolar, PearlX Infrastructure LLC ...

January 17, 2022
News Pivot Energy
Pivot Energy offers reliable income for Colorado landowners through solar...

Colorado landowners have had a difficult 20 years, especially those who depend on their land for activities like agriculture and cattle graz...

January 17, 2022
News Florida-capitol
Bill filed to crush net metering and solar choice in...

The Florida monopoly utilities are at it again, aiming to crush solar choice in the Sunshine State. The Florida Legislature is back in sessi...

January 17, 2022
News California flag
NEM 3.0 proposal could cut California solar installations by 95...

SolarReviews, a consumer review and rating website for solar installations, released survey results of more than 4,000 people located in Cal...

January 13, 2022
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Talquin Electric Cooperative constructing three utility solar projects in Florida

Talquin Electric Cooperative is constructing three utility solar projects. Origis Energy is developing the projects and will construct, own,...

January 13, 2022