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Nautilus Solar Nautilus Solar Energy adds community solar portfolio in Maine from ISM Solar
Mark Gorman
March 15, 2021
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KiloVault debuts AGM battery to handle higher energy demand in off-grid battery storage
March 15, 2021
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Researchers: Solar PV cells could last six times longer with this optical coating
March 15, 2021
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Arctech says its AI solar tracking solutions give 7 percent boost to energy output
March 12, 2021
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Power to the PV People: How Evergrid keeps home solar up when the grid goes down
March 12, 2021
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Two bills in Florida would legalize power purchase agreements for...

In Florida, Senator Lori Berman and Representative Omari Hardy introduced no-brainer legislation (SB 1718/HB 1611) this week to make it easi...

March 12, 2021
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Schneider, Black & Veatch demo resilient microgrid at Marine Corps...

Schneider Electric and Black & Veatch jointly designed and constructed a microgrid for the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, in S...

March 12, 2021
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HOLT Renewables installs solar system at HOLT CAT location

HOLT Renewables completed a solar installation at the HOLT CAT location in Georgetown as part of the company’s multi-year rollout plan...

March 11, 2021
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Holy moly: Trina Solar unveils a 670-W module (here’s what...

At the PV Module Tech Conference on March 11, 2021, Trina Solar officially unveiled a new generation of ultra-high power Vertex module with ...

March 11, 2021
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Snapshot of PG&E’s solar energy, battery storage portfolio at year-end...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) reports that it exceeded California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) goal requiring e...

March 10, 2021
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The case for large-scale solar plant repowering-as-a-service

Operations and maintenance (O&M) is mostly about keeping the status quo of a solar plant. Fix issues. Prevent failures. Hit benchmarks. ...

March 10, 2021
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ACE Controls debuts damper replacements for solar PV tracking systems

ACE Controls has introduced a line of replacement dampers for PV solar tracking systems — the SOL-28 Series. These drop-in replacement...

March 10, 2021
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Michels Corp. becomes anchor tenant in Alliant Energy community solar...

Alliant Energy’s 1-MW community solar project in Fond du Lac, Wis., announced in December, found its anchor tenant this week in Michel...

March 10, 2021
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North Carolina case shows the challenge of building smaller solar...

Courtesy of Energy News Network: A solar project in the heart of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains has united climate activists, c...

March 9, 2021
Batteries Humless LiFePO4 battery
Advantages of Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries in solar applications...

The future of energy storage relies on pushing the envelope. We need battery solutions that have greater capacity, a high power potential, a...

March 9, 2021
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Russelectric debuts Advanced Microgrid Control Solution

Russelectric, A Siemens Business, announced its Advanced Microgrid Control Solution, adding value to a facility’s infrastructure throu...

March 8, 2021
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On-Demand Webinar: Buyer Beware Webinar: Lessons Learned from Inverter Testing

Can you trust an inverter datasheet? Results from independent testing show that datasheets can mislead buyers: reported efficiency may be im...

March 8, 2021
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Solar Support debuts end-of-warranty solar plant and equipment assessment service

Solar Support, a specialized engineering company with a broad portfolio of reliability solutions, now offers independent plant and equipment...

March 8, 2021
O&M global solar pv performance issues
Global PV on track to lose $14.5 billion a year...

Raycatch, a start-up that has developed an AI-driven digital asset management system of solar PV assets, analyzed raw data derived from...

March 8, 2021
Inverters and eBOS NEP commercial RSD
Time to revisit standalone solutions to solve rapid shutdown system...

Rapid shutdown probably feels like old news at this point, but the product market is just now hitting its stride. Initially, the NEC 2017 an...

March 8, 2021