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macroinverter NEP debuts 500-Wac ‘macro-inverter’ for higher wattage solar panels
Chris Crowell
December 22, 2020
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News congress
Congress to extend solar investment tax credit as part of COVID-19 relief package
December 21, 2020
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Russelectric with a new RTSCD Commercial Duty Transfer Switch
December 21, 2020
News Comparative tool pvDesign
RatedPower adds dynamic Comparison Tool to compare CAPEX, LCOE of solar plant layouts in pvDesign
December 21, 2020
News RSDcertification
APsystems’ rapid shutdown device now PVRSE-compatible with SMA inverters
December 21, 2020
News RibBracket-V_1
S-5! debuts RibBracket V to address sheeting-only metal roof solar...

The metal roof attachment experts at S-5! expanded their line of RibBrackets for mounting solar panels, covering a variety of trapezoid...

December 21, 2020
News perovskite swift solar
Swift Solar nets another $8M in funding to develop its...

Solar PV technology company Swift Solar — recently recognized by a joint R&D 100 Award with the U.S. Department of Energy&rsq...

December 21, 2020
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SMA America hits 1 GW of Sunny Central Storage inverters...

SMA America has reached an impressive milestone in battery storage, having sold a cumulative 1 GW (gigawatt) of Sunny Central Storage invert...

December 21, 2020
News michigan on a map
Michigan PSC doubles rooftop solar cap, but cuts payback rate

The Michigan Public Service Commission issued its Order in the Consumers Energy rate case last week, and the result is fairly disappointing ...

December 21, 2020
+ Storage Q CELLS+Geli
Q Cells’ acquisition of Geli is complete

Q CELLS completed the acquisition of San Francisco-based energy storage solutions company Growing Energy Labs, Inc. (Geli). The two companie...

December 21, 2020
News solar contractor homeowner agree
LevelTen’s Re-Store Energy Agreement gives corporations easier access to energy...

LevelTen Energy introduced a new type of financial contract to give corporations and Load-Serving Entities easier access to the economic and...

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
News solar beats projection arrow up
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