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swell logo Swell Energy is building four utility-backed solar + storage VPPs totaling 200 MWh
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December 15, 2020
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Mana Monitoring added 500 MW of solar energy to its platform in 2020
December 15, 2020
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sPower expands New York portfolio through 1-gigawatt acquisition
December 15, 2020
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New Energy Equity completes a 1.3-MW community solar garden in Minnesota
December 15, 2020
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US Solar, Minnesota Power and Grand Rapids Public Utilities announce solar and storage project
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
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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
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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
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7X Energy partners with Nestlé on 250 MW Taygete I...

7X Energy, Inc. has partnered with Nestlé to be the sole tax equity investor for its 250 megawatts Taygete I Energy Project loca...

December 14, 2020
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LG debuts new, larger capacity residential energy storage system

This month, LG Energy Solution was spun off from LG Chem in a move to better serve the emerging energy solution category. “We came to ...

December 14, 2020
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Sandia Labs tests Terra Pave soil binder, says it’s environmentally...

Terra Pave, a reflective, albedo-boosting soil binder aimed at bifacial solar sites, recently passed testing from Sandia National Laboratori...

December 10, 2020
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EDF Renewables North America selected for microgrid installation at Port...

EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) announced a contract to build a 700 kW/ 2,400 kWh Microgrid Infrastructure Project for the Port of San D...

December 10, 2020
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What’s the answer for solar PV panel recycling? Manufacturers share...

  The solar PV panel recycling issue continues to loom large in the U.S., with more articles being written to show something needs to b...

December 10, 2020
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McCarthy building two solar projects to help power Facebook data...

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has begun construction on two solar projects in south Georgia for Silicon Ranch Corporation. The utility-sc...

December 9, 2020
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United Cooperative Services, Navisun and TurningPoint building 10-MW community solar...

United Cooperative Services (United), Navisun, and TurningPoint Energy (TPE) started construction on the Erath Solar project in Erath County...

December 9, 2020
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Alliant Energy launches first community solar project in Fond du...

Alliant Energy is launching its first community solar project. The solar garden will be located near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, nestled along t...

December 9, 2020