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rejected fixed charge Solar tariff petition rejected
Chris Crowell
November 11, 2021
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Projects groundbreaking ceremony
Sandia Labs, DOE studying this big solar + storage project at Atrisco Heritage Academy in New Mexico
November 10, 2021
Projects pen on paper
Facebook signs PPA for 160 MW Virginia solar facility
November 10, 2021
Projects AEW Champaign solar field
Sol Systems, Illinois American Water debut Champaign County’s first solar project
November 10, 2021
News solar landscape community solar project of the year
Community Solar Project of the Year 2021: Duke Realty Portfolio
November 10, 2021
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SMA America debuts SMA Energy App for homeowners

SMA America has launched the new SMA Energy app to give homeowners a simple interface to view their home energy generation and usage. This t...

November 10, 2021
News RE_SOLO_4C
Solar Power Events rebrands SPI, ESI, and Smart Energy Week...

Solar Energy Trade Shows announced a new brand for SPI, ESI, and Smart Energy Week arriving in 2022. Beginning in January, SPI, ESI, and Sma...

November 9, 2021
News growatt
Meet THOR, Growatt’s snazzy new EV charger

Growatt Rolls Out Brand New Smart EV Charger THOR Growatt rolled out a brand new smart EV charger, the THOR series, that can be used in all ...

November 9, 2021
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Energy Toolbase adds Enel X storage solutions to ETB Developer

Energy Toolbase announced a platform integration with Enel X North America, giving project developers the ability to run storage dispatch si...

November 9, 2021
News ENTELIGENT
Enteligent unveils high-power rapid shutdown, optimizer device

Enteligent NMax RSD with Optimization Enteligent announced a new combined rapid shutdown and optimization device – Enteligent NMax RSD...

November 9, 2021
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Sunpro Solar acquired by smart home security provider ADT

Smart home and small business security provider ADT is now adding “energy security” to the mix and jumping into the solar market...

November 9, 2021
Projects SolarEdge rural Alaska
Case study: SolarEdge powers largest PV system in rural Alaska

Courtesy of SolarEdge Alaska’s energy demand per capita is the fourth highest in the US, and it has traditionally been one of the bigg...

November 9, 2021
News chub cay storage project winner
Solar + Storage Project of the Year 2021: Chub Cay...

Berry Islands, Bahamas | 4-MW PV + 10-MWh battery Few sites on the planet represent the intersection between an island, ocean and energy res...

November 9, 2021
Featured Flemington Food Pantry
C&I Rooftop Solar Project of the Year 2021: Flemington Area...

Hunterdon County, N.J. | 33 kW Food pantries are a great candidate for solar. They have one giant refrigeration load to offset, and, of cour...

November 8, 2021
News terrasmart
Gibraltar unifies Terrasmart, RBI Solar, SolarBOS, Sunfig under one brand

RBI Solar, SolarBOS, Sunfig and Terrasmart, all part of the renewable energy group of Gibraltar, are unifying under a shared brand: Terrasma...

November 8, 2021
News Fotress-Power-battery
Fortress Power lithium battery passes UL 9540A large-scale fire safety...

Fortress Power is now one of only a few lithium battery manufacturers that passed the UL 9540(A) large-scale fire test. The UL 9540A large f...

November 8, 2021
News OpenSolar 3D capture
PVEL, NREL validate accuracy of OpenSolar’s solar design tool

Third-party researchers PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) put OpenSolar, a free solar design and sale...

November 8, 2021
News Sense Solar
The power of real-time energy notifications: Sense, OhmConnect team to...

Sense Solar tracks solar production and energy use flowing between the home and electrical grid in real time and historically so that homeow...

November 8, 2021
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Solar Builder Project of the Year Awards 2021

Our annual Project of the Year Awards are a celebration of the solar industry. The hard work of construction teams and installers, the creat...

November 8, 2021
Featured C%I Ground mount project of the year
C&I Ground-Mount Solar Project of the Year 2021: Buckhorn Children...

Buckhorn, Ky. | 20.48 kW The installation of a 20-kW ground-mounted solar array, taken within the scope of the energy market at-large, is pr...

November 8, 2021