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perovskite swift solar Swift Solar nets another $8M in funding to develop its perovskite technology
Chris Crowell
December 21, 2020
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SMA America hits 1 GW of Sunny Central Storage inverters in North America
December 21, 2020
News michigan on a map
Michigan PSC doubles rooftop solar cap, but cuts payback rate
December 21, 2020
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Q Cells’ acquisition of Geli is complete
December 21, 2020
News solar contractor homeowner agree
LevelTen’s Re-Store Energy Agreement gives corporations easier access to energy storage projects
December 17, 2020
Financing capital dynamics
NIPSCO, Capital Dynamics sign PPA for 280-MW of Gibson Solar...

Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC (NIPSCO), signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement with the Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI)...

December 16, 2020
News local solar planning
New DER planning model shows why local solar-for-all costs less

The grid of the not-so-distant future will be clean, distributed and co-optimized. What that means is that generation and other resources on...

December 16, 2020
News CleanSpark
CleanSpark, Symmetric Energy team up to build residential, commercial microgrids...

Advanced software and controls company CleanSpark partnered with Symmetric Energy to target new microgrid projects in Northern California. T...

December 15, 2020
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Swell Energy is building four utility-backed solar + storage VPPs...

Swell Energy is financing the construction of four virtual power plants (VPPs) representing over 200 MWh of distributed energy storage paire...

December 15, 2020
News mana monitoring
Mana Monitoring added 500 MW of solar energy to its...

Specializing in energy SaaS solutions that aggregate solar PV and renewable energy portfolios, Mana Monitoring equips C&I asset owners w...

December 15, 2020
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sPower expands New York portfolio through 1-gigawatt acquisition

Renewable energy independent power producer sPower acquired nine solar projects in New York from National Grid Renewables, the ren...

December 15, 2020
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New Energy Equity completes a 1.3-MW community solar garden in...

New Energy Equity celebrated the completion of a 1,376 kW community solar garden located in St. Cloud, MN. New Energy Equity is thrilled to ...

December 15, 2020
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US Solar, Minnesota Power and Grand Rapids Public Utilities announce...

US Solar and Minnesota Power entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a solar-plus-storage project in the City of Grand Rapids...

December 15, 2020
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Residential solar segment beats COVID recovery projection in third quarter

U.S. solar companies installed 3.8 gigawatts (GW) of new solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in Q3 2020, a 9% increase from Q2 installations as...

December 15, 2020
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ENGIE announces slew of solar energy contracts with Amazon as...

ENGIE announced several energy offtake contracts with Amazon for a global renewable energy portfolio of wind and solar projects across the U...

December 14, 2020
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New Guardian Fall Protection cable lanyard from Pure Safety Group

Pure Safety Group’s Guardian Fall Protection brand has introduced a new cable lanyard, compatible for leading edges, that combines the...

December 14, 2020
Inverters and eBOS Solar Support Engineers at Work Resolving Tough Inverter Issues
Solar Support launches analytics program to spot legacy inverter failures...

Older central solar inverters outliving their warranties and failing is an issue growing bigger by the day for asset managers, and engineeri...

December 14, 2020
News Seraphim factory
Seraphim expands half-cell module production with factory in Vietnam

Seraphim Solar System Co. is expanding its capacity, investing in a 750-MW module assembly factory with fully automatic production lines in ...

December 14, 2020
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Terra-Gen starts on next “world’s largest standalone solar and energy...

Renewable energy developer and operator Terra-Gen announced an agreement with Mortenson to proceed on the Edwards & Sanborn solar and en...

December 14, 2020
News NEP rapid shutdown
At a glance: NEP rapid shutdown product, 800-W microinverter

Northern Electric Power Technology Inc. (NEP)’s PVG-4 is an easily installed standalone rapid shutdown product, providing NEC-201...

December 14, 2020