News

Solar industry news: Mounting, inverter, PV module, tracker and energy storage trends; net metering regulation; financing, buying trends and more.

Greenskies_Lawrence-Township_Police_Solar_PR_2021-10-04 New Jersey Governor recognizes Lawrence Township for its solar transition
Chris Crowell
October 11, 2021
Read Article
Projects CVEC Sandwich Police MA
DSD, CVEC complete two carport solar canopies in Cape Cod
October 11, 2021
Batteries siemens-fda241-_-li-ion-off-gas-detector-
Siemens uses dual-wavelength detection to spot Li-ion battery smoldering
October 11, 2021
News floating-solar
DNV verifies floating solar design methodology of Sungrow FPV
October 11, 2021
Products Enteligent
Enteligent unveils rapid shutdown device and solar-powered EV charger
October 11, 2021
News community solar
DOE sets community solar target: 26 GW by 2025

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a new National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) target: to enable community solar syst...

October 11, 2021
Mounting Guide OMCO solar
OMCO Solar on valuing customer service in today’s solar industry

The power and success of a business is not valued solely on the number of projects or products. How a vendor responds in difficult situation...

October 8, 2021
News standard-solar
The California Institute of Technology now topped with 800-kW of...

By adding additional rooftop solar arrays, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is maximizing its energy production at times whe...

October 6, 2021
News redeux-energy
Redeux Energy Partners launches, eyes GWs of co-located solar, storage

Redeux Energy Partners, a developer of utility-scale, clean energy projects, today unveiled additional details about its capital backing, op...

October 6, 2021
Financing home solar financing
Solar financing news roundup: EnerBank bought by Regions, Goodleap transaction...

Residential solar financing is becoming more mainstream and allowing for better terms and greater access to solar installers and their custo...

October 6, 2021
Financing FirstEnergy Ohio solar
RFP alert: FirstEnergy purchasing RECs for Ohio utilities

FirstEnergy Corp. issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to purchase Ohio-compliant Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) for its Ohio utilities &nda...

October 6, 2021
News robot solar construction
IoT collaboration focuses on construction site safety

Zurich North America, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Everguard.ai and Rudolph Libbe Group (RLG) are working with digital health and IoT-enable...

October 6, 2021
Projects DTE Energy
DTE Energy’s first community solar facility coming via MIGreenPower program

DTE Energy is moving forward with building plans for the company’s first MIGreenPower community solar project in Washtenaw C...

October 6, 2021
News solriver-logo
Warbler Solar project now operating in Cleveland County, N.C.

SolRiver Capital has announced the commercial operation of the 5.8 MW Warbler Solar project in Cleveland County, North Carolina. The project...

October 6, 2021
News utah
Intermountain Healthcare signs solar PPA with DESRI and Rocky Mountain...

In a major step towards sustainability, Intermountain Healthcare has joined a utility-scale solar project near Huntington, Utah, that will s...

October 6, 2021
+ Storage California flag
California solar contractors can still install energy storage systems (for...

The Attorney General of California filed in San Francisco Superior Court a written stipulation agreeing to voluntarily stay enforcement of t...

October 6, 2021
Residential Solar sunpower logo
SunPower buys Blue Raven Solar, fills need in several regions

SunPower Corp. has acquired Blue Raven Solar, one of the fastest growing residential solar providers in the U.S. Blue Raven’s growth t...

October 5, 2021
Projects Aquamarine Westside's 250MW solar project.
Valley Clean Energy contracts with 250-MW solar park in Kings...

Valley Clean Energy is now receiving power from a new solar park located in Kings County, Calif. VCE signed a 15-year contract to purchase 5...

October 5, 2021
News agreement handshake
Peninsula Clean Energy, Leeward Renewable sign 15-year PPA for California’s...

Leeward Renewable Energy and Peninsula Clean Energy have entered into a 15-year solar-plus-storage PPA involving Leeward’s 1...

October 5, 2021
Projects denver
Greenbacker Renewable Energy acquires solar projects at Denver International Airport

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company has purchased two pre-operational solar projects from Oak Leaf Energy Partners. The projects, 12.4 MWdc...

October 5, 2021