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UL-3741-Approved-Social-Media-Page SunModo NanoRack and SMR Systems now listed to UL 3741
Chris Crowell
January 20, 2025
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Product of the Week POTW S-5!
Product of the Week: Unlock Significant Savings with S-5! PVKIT® On Your Next Solar Installation
January 20, 2025
Financing Palmetto
Palmetto raises over $1.2 billion to back LightReach financing
January 20, 2025
News Illumination Solar and SEI
Solar Energy International rolling out mobile training program with Illumination Solar
January 20, 2025
News Enphase wildfire relief photo
Empowered by Light, Enphase send solar generators to LA fire fight
January 20, 2025
News India solar map (2)
India Solar Supply Chain updates for Q4 2024

As challenges continue to mount for U.S. access to Chinese solar supply chains, attention turns to the India Solar Supply Chain. Sinovoltaic...

January 20, 2025
News K2 Quote Aurora
K2 Systems racking quotes available in Aurora platform

Solar installers who favor K2 Systems solar mounting systems can now access K2 Quote directly from Aurora Solar‘s PV design and sales ...

January 20, 2025
+ Storage ESS Energy Center long duration storage
ESS launches Energy Center product to expand long duration energy...

ESS Tech Inc. has completed the first commercial deliveries of its Energy Center product to a Florida utility. The company also wrapped up c...

January 20, 2025
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Treasury updated the Domestic Content Safe Harbor cost percentages. What’s...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released additional guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s domestic content tax credit bon...

January 16, 2025
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ABB acquires smart energy tech company Lumin

ABB is acquiring smart energy management tech company Lumin to expand its home energy management capabilities in U.S. residential. This come...

January 15, 2025
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Boviet Solar’s U.S. manufacturing to ramp up first half of...

Boviet Solar Technology Co. says it is on track to achieve its targeted production ramp-up in the first half of 2025 at its new state-of-the...

January 15, 2025
News BLUETTI-CES-2025--Featured-Image
Bluetti gives preview of EnergyPro 6K and smart panel at...

BLUETTI has refined its brand and launched “product era 3.0” at CES 2025. The battery company (this year’s CES Innovation ...

January 15, 2025
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Case Study: The second life battery economy of Phoenix

Lithium batteries are enabling the global energy transition to electricity in many industries and are experiencing explosive growth in deman...

January 15, 2025
News nextracker
UC Berkeley, Nextracker inaugurate the CALNEXT Center for Solar Research

The University of California Berkeley Engineering is establishing a solar energy research program and state-of-the-art solar test field due ...

January 15, 2025
News department of homeland security (2)
Four Chinese wafer makers added to UFLPA ban – ‘quite...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security added four upstream solar module component suppliers in China (ingot and wafer makers) to the Uyghu...

January 14, 2025
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DOE-funded Charging Smart program expands across U.S.

The U.S. Department of Energy-funded Charging Smart technical assistance and designation program is now available in all 50 states. Charging...

January 14, 2025
+ Storage Panasonic HIT panels
Panasonic names its Installers of the Year for 2024

Panasonic Corporation of North America announced the recipients of its 2024 Customer Appreciation Awards. These awards recognize authorized ...

January 14, 2025
PV Modules silfab-solar-expansion
Nexamp, Pivot Energy secure domestic module supply from Silfab Solar

North American solar module manufacturer Silfab Solar signed supply agreements with two notable community solar players in Nexamp and Pivot ...

January 13, 2025
Products PowerPanel dual-tank Gen2O Integrated System on rooftop
Novel solar-thermal energy hybrid system earns DOE grant to ramp...

Pictured atop this article is PowerPanel Gen20 Integrated System installed on the rooftop of a resort in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This versi...

January 13, 2025
News solar company acquisition
EQT Transition Infrastructure set to acquire Scale Microgrids

In December, EQT Transition Infrastructure announced its intentions to seek out businesses to scale “that help enable the transition a...

January 13, 2025