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May 14, 2020
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News Pivot Energy
Pivot Energy finishes 431-kW solar carport at Colorado’s Intermountain Rural Electric Association
May 13, 2020
News down arrow job losses
Attention: The United States will lose 850,000 clean energy jobs by July if no federal action is taken
May 13, 2020
Financing business elbow bump
Excelsior Energy Capital continues to build its Minnesota solar portfolio with five more ground-mount sites
May 13, 2020
News grid resilience covid 19
Improving grid resilience in the face of climate change, natural disasters — and now COVID-19
May 13, 2020
Inverters and eBOS sunspec alliance laboratories
Rejoice for choice: 12 companies now in the SunSpec Rapid...

Product choice has been an issue with rapid shutdown requirements since the NEC 2017 update, but that tide is starting to turn. Six addition...

May 13, 2020
+ Storage venutra energy storage
Strata Solar goes with Tesla’s Megapack for this 100-MW energy...

Renewable energy developer Strata Solar sent an update on its landmark Ventura Energy Storage (VES) project — a 100-MW, 400-MWh batter...

May 13, 2020
News approval stamp
$1 billion solar, battery storage project in Nevada gets federal...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) have issued the final Record of Decision for a $1.1 billio...

May 13, 2020
Mounting Guide GAF Energy
GAF Energy adds Flex option to give roofers more solar...

GAF Energy wants to own the roof-integrated solar product category in North America (solar systems installed by roofing contractors), a...

May 12, 2020
+ Storage Span Smart Panel Installation-001
Span raises $10.2 million in quest to reinvent the home...

While homes today are plugging in an assortment of connected devices, appliances, electronics and energy upgrades such as solar panels, batt...

May 12, 2020
News ja solar
New JA Solar high-power PV modules test over 525 Watts

JA Solar, a manufacturer solar photovoltaic products, announced that the power output of its high-efficiency solar modules under standard te...

May 11, 2020
Featured Blue Planet microgrid controller
Exclusive look at Blue Ion LXHV, a high-voltage commercial microgrid...

The Blue Ion LXHV from Blue Planet Energy is a collection of technologies aimed at providing a complete commercial storage microgrid solutio...

May 11, 2020
News hand sanitizer
SunCrafter gets innovative by reusing end of life solar PV...

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed various organizations such as SunCrafter to come up with technological solutions to limit the spread of the...

May 11, 2020
News midwest solar 3
Midwest Solar Expo is trying a ‘fully immersive virtual conference’...

The rescheduled Midwest Solar Expo will return for its seventh year on June 15-17, 2020, as the solar industry’s first ever fully-imme...

May 11, 2020
News St Louis
St. Louis passes a building energy performance standard (a first...

St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson signed an ambitious bill that would require buildings in the City of St. Louis to meet energy efficiency standa...

May 11, 2020
eBOS Hellermantyton ratchet clamp
HellermannTyton adds bifacial module wire management insight to solar tracker...

HellermannTyton’s Wire Management for Single Axis Trackers white paper has been updated to include extensive commentary on bifacial mo...

May 11, 2020
News renewable energy target
Three pathways to grow the commercial and industrial solar sector

The Renewable Energy Policy Pathways Report, released by the REBA Institute, finds that expanding competitive supply options appears to have...

May 7, 2020
News grid modernization
IREC publishes a slick playbook for evaluating grid modernization plans

Grid modernization is a cool thing to say and support, but it is also a nebulous term, which makes it difficult to implement. What counts as...

May 7, 2020
News OpenSolar
Heads up: UtilityAPI now free for three months via OpenSolar...

With most of the country in economic lockdown, fewer people are spending their socially-distanced work-from-home moments thinking about goin...

May 6, 2020
News financing options
Advantage Capital Solar Partners completes financing on two C&I solar...

Advantage Capital Solar Partners III completed solar investment tax credit financing on two commercial and utility (C&I) solar projects,...

May 6, 2020