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January 26, 2021
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Check out this school solar array that features student art contest winners
January 25, 2021
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Chisholm Grid Battery Energy Storage Project in Texas selects Sungrow ESS solution
January 25, 2021
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Borrego Solar rebrands, shifts focus to utility-scale solar + storage
January 25, 2021
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Four reasons residential solar + storage installations are surging in the U.S.
January 25, 2021
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RETC’s 2020 PV Module Index Report shows overall improved performance

Renewable Energy Test Center, LLC (RETC) published its annual PV Module Index (PVMI 2020) report near the end of last year, using its indepe...

January 25, 2021
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Navisun adds New Jersey landfill community solar project to portfolio

Navisun LLC, a solar power producer that owns and operates distributed and small utility-scale solar projects, acquired a 4.5-MW community s...

January 22, 2021
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Tesla launched a solar inverter. Here’s all we know

With little fanfare this week, Tesla launched its own solar inverter, getting a step closer to having a fully in-house PV system. Available ...

January 21, 2021
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Solstice raises $3.1 million for innovative, equitable approach to community...

Climate change is a top concern for many Americans and its mitigation requires massive clean energy expansion. Still, 77% of American househ...

January 21, 2021
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Freedom Forever stays with Sunrun as its solar and battery...

Freedom Forever has selected Sunrun as its primary solar and battery as-a-service provider for the next three years. The company will levera...

January 21, 2021
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How 3D-enabled workflow is changing utility-scale solar construction

According to the SEIA Solar Market Insight Report 2020 Q3, utility PV development has reached a new milestone with more than 50 GWdc now in ...

January 21, 2021
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CleanSpark, Solar Watt Solutions to build solar + storage microgrid...

EPC Solar Watt Solutions teamed with software and controls company CleanSpark on a new solar-plus-storage microgrid at a medical facility in...

January 20, 2021
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Alliant Energy donates $90,000 in community solar blocks to Habitat...

Alliant Energy is donating $90,000 in solar blocks from its Fond du Lac community solar project to Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac Count...

January 20, 2021
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Pine Gate Renewables closes financing on 12-project North Carolina solar...

Pine Gate Renewables has closed financing on a new 12-project fund of solar and solar plus storage sites in North Carolina. The projects in ...

January 20, 2021
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This co-located solar array serving two Arkansas school districts is...

Cedar Ridge Schools and Midland School District teamed up to improve their districts with a new solar facility. The array, a 1.36-MWdc singl...

January 20, 2021
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EDPR NA buys majority stake in C2’s small-scale solar portfolio

EDPR Renewables North America LLC acquired a majority interest in C2 Omega LLC, the distributed solar platform of C2 Energy Capital LLC. The...

January 20, 2021
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Why ‘Maine won’t wait’ on climate action and what the...

In 2019, Maine’s Governor Janet Mills addressed the United Nations, laying out a plan for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2045...

January 20, 2021
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UX Solar, Namasté Solar start on four Denver-areas community solar...

UX Solar, a joint-venture partnership between Excelsior Energy Capital and Unico Solar Investors LLC, along with co-development partner Nama...

January 19, 2021
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Joliet Junior College adds solar array to power 22 percent...

Pivot Energy and Joliet Junior College in Illinois (JJC) have completed and activated the 1.3-megawatt onsite solar system at JJC’s Ma...

January 19, 2021
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Covid impact: Home electrical usage increased 9.3 percent through spring,...

Based on an analysis of anonymized energy data in more than 5,200 homes that have the Sense home energy monitor, Sense found that, since Cov...

January 19, 2021