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February 2, 2021
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Financing Loanpal
Residential solar point of sale platform Loanpal closes investment round of $800 million
February 2, 2021
News FIMER inverter
FIMER debuts solar inverter for commercial and industrial segment
February 2, 2021
News DelSol Solar Power Tiles
Fourth Wave Energy to spin-off GeoSolar Plus into separate publicly traded company
February 2, 2021
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SunPower adds EagleView high-res aerial analytics to solar design app
February 2, 2021
Inverters and eBOS solar panel installer showing saving data
Three ways inverter-agnostic solar PV monitoring can improve your solar...

Basics worth repeating When a solar PV system is not functioning as it should, that means less energy production, which means a loss of ROI ...

February 2, 2021
News Sense
Sense can now track home power quality and detect floating...

Sense has introduced two new Sense Labs projects that make homes safer and more reliable. The Power Quality project tracks variations in ele...

February 1, 2021
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Financing approved for OYA Solar’s community solar projects in New...

OYA Solar, a solar developer and asset owner, announced today that it has secured financing that will support the development and constructi...

January 28, 2021
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Pivot Energy completes 34-MW community solar portfolio via Illinois Adjustable...

Pivot Energy has completed 12 new community solar gardens located across Illinois, totaling 34-megawatts of emission-free, clean, and local ...

January 28, 2021
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Minnesota PUC fined Xcel Energy $1 million for interconnection delays...

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission fined Xcel Energy $1 million for exceeding a maximum number of customer service complaints as a re...

January 28, 2021
News Kloss Distributing solar rooftop
Kloss Distributing now powers beverage distribution business with solar

Residents of Lake County, Illinois, can drink a little greener in 2021 thanks to the solar installation that now powers Kloss Distributing i...

January 27, 2021
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Lightsource bp completes financing, starts construction on 316-MW of solar...

Lightsource bp has successfully closed on a $380 million financing package and mobilized construction on its Elm Branch and Briar Creek sola...

January 27, 2021
Policy corporate solar buyers
Corporations are buying into solar energy and are calling on...

  Corporations purchased a record of 23.7GW of clean energy in 2020, up from 20.1GW in 2019 and 13.6GW in 2018, according to new resear...

January 27, 2021
News solar ppa prices north america
COVID-19 had little impact on solar PPAs in 2020 says...

LevelTen Energy released its Q4 PPA Price Index reports for North America and Europe, delivering the industry’s most comprehensive ana...

January 27, 2021
News First Solar
First Solar sells solar development platform (10-GW total) to Leeward...

Notable wind developer Leeward Renewable Energy is purchasing First Solar’s utility-scale solar development platform of approximately,...

January 27, 2021
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SunPower expanding Residential Installation program into seven new markets

Freed from its solar panel manufacturing side after splitting from Maxeon, SunPower is looking to significantly expand its SunPower Resident...

January 27, 2021
News Dominion Energy
Dominion Energy acquires solar energy project in Ohio from Invenergy

Dominion Energy has announced that one of its subsidiaries has acquired the 150-MWac Hardin solar generating facility, which recently entere...

January 26, 2021
News Concord 3
Concord Public Schools in Arkansas turns on 341-kW solar array...

Officials from Concord Public Schools in Arkansas, members of the community, and Entegrity hosted a flip the switch ceremony to celebrate th...

January 26, 2021
News salient energy
California commission grants $1.5M to Salient Energy to develop zinc-ion...

Salient Energy is developing novel zinc-ion batteries as an alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries, and the California Energy Com...

January 26, 2021
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Span’s Smart Panel has an Alexa integration, $20M in new...

Span launched and started shipping its smart electrical panel last year – a reinvention of an old, basic concept to better serve today...

January 26, 2021