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michigan Is it community solar if the utility — not community — owns the panels?
Tom Perkins
June 29, 2021
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Grissom Solar is now online in Enfield, North Carolina
June 29, 2021
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Anaheim Solar One selects Mechatron Solar tracker to avoid disturbing flora and fauna
June 29, 2021
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GZA, Kearsage Energy commission 2.8 MW solar array on former petroleum storage facility
June 29, 2021
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Electriq Power raises another $10 million to expand PowerPod 2 rollout
June 28, 2021
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1366 Technologies, Hunt Perovskite merge to bring tandem solar modules...

1366 Technologies, Inc. and Hunt Perovskite Technologies, L.L.C (HPT) have merged, combining two disruptive technologies – 1366’...

June 28, 2021
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OYA Solar adds another 600-MW of community solar to its...

OYA Solar closed an exclusive co-development agreement with Omni Navitas to develop, construct, and own 600 MW of community solar projects a...

June 28, 2021
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Fortress Power debuts FlexRack battery cabinet

Fortress Power unveiled its newest product, the FlexRack, last week. This compact, high quality steel enclosure stores up to 4 eFlex 5.4kWh ...

June 28, 2021
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Handwritten notes boost solar customer response rates — and robots...

Customers are barraged by more messaging in more ways than ever before, from email and text messages to tweets and social media ads. While m...

June 28, 2021
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KiloVault debuts deep-cycle lithium-based HLX+ battery series

KiloVault, a provider of residential and commercial renewable energy solutions, unveiled a new series of deep-cycle lithium-based batteries....

June 28, 2021
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Gridential Energy’s Silicon Joule battery tech being evaluated by Pilot...

Pilot Battery Co., a Taiwan leading producer of AGM battery technology and solar components and Gridtential Energy, the inventor o...

June 28, 2021
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Texas’ Freedom Solar raises issue with PEC’s proposed solar rate...

Austin-based Freedom Solar has raised objections to a slate of regressive policies in Texas, including at least a 20-25% rate increase, that...

June 28, 2021
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New insights into homeowner thoughts on residential solar

Residential installers need as much insight into homeowners’ thoughts on solar power as possible. This crucial information builds bett...

June 28, 2021
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Nautilus Solar Energy acquires nearly 60 MWdc of solar capacity...

Nautilus Solar Energy has acquired twenty-one, fully-operational solar projects in New York and Maryland which total almost 60 MWdc of solar...

June 25, 2021
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Nautilus Solar acquires New York community solar project from Saturn...

Nautilus Solar Energy has acquired a 6.34 MWdc community solar project located in Norwich, New York from Canadian renewable energy developer...

June 25, 2021
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Georgia Tech microgrid project serves as living laboratory, Georgia Power...

Georgia Power, in collaboration with Georgia Tech, opened the 1.4 MW microgrid project at Tech Square in Metro Atlanta, approved by the...

June 25, 2021
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Extensible Energy raises $3.4M to scale its DemandEx load flexibility...

How DemandEx works Extensible Energy, a cleantech load flexibility software company, has raised a $3.4 million venture capital inv...

June 24, 2021
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Quality and Reliability Matter: Looking at the Latest PV Module...

Some in the clean energy sector consider PV modules to be commodities, interchangeable and undifferentiated. The look, feel, relative wattag...

June 24, 2021
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Polysilicon from China added to Forced Labor list by Department...

Source: CEA. Every two years, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs publishes its “List of Goods ...

June 24, 2021
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Duke Energy constructing 22.6-MW Stony Knoll Solar plant in Surry...

In continuing to expand solar power in North Carolina, Duke Energy has begun construction on its 22.6-MW Stony Knoll Solar power plant. Once...

June 24, 2021