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solar development Longroad Energy selected by HECO to develop two utility-scale solar, storage sites
Chris Crowell
June 3, 2020
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News vermont public power solar project
Encore Renewable starts on second solar project for Vermont Public Power Supply Authority
June 3, 2020
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RPCS expands with new logistics facility in Mississippi (its third overall)
June 3, 2020
News renewable energy
SEIA, other renewable energy associations collab on new advocacy principles
June 3, 2020
News Duke Energy
Duke Energy Florida names next three solar power plant locations (700 MW total)
June 2, 2020
News new normal
BayWa r.e. CEO on ‘transforming the mental models’ for solar...

As states and counties begin modifying COVID-19 sheltering restrictions, the pressure to return to “business as usual” is substa...

June 2, 2020
News 8minute+Solar+Energy+Logo-001
8minute Solar Energy closes credit facility for its 18-GW solar,...

8minute Solar Energy closed a $225 million letter of credit (LC) facility from a consortium of five banks, led by CIT as sole coordinating l...

June 1, 2020
Inverters and eBOS certification stamp
SunSpec: Smart inverter communication now a national standard, here’s what...

On May 21, 2020, the IEEE 1547.1-2020 standard was officially published, making smart inverters with standard communication interfaces the o...

June 1, 2020
News nearmap
Nearmap adds AI analysis to its high-definition aerial images

Nearmap announced the general availability of new innovation Nearmap Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mapbrowser, making it the first aerial ...

June 1, 2020
News SEIA
SEIA: “Today we unequivocally say Black Lives Matter”

Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), issued a statement on racial injustices and the gr...

June 1, 2020
News GAF Energy
GAF Energy debuts virtual solar sales, design program for roofers

GAF Energy launched a robust program to help roofers virtually design and sell its roof-integrated solar solutions in North America. The new...

June 1, 2020
News PV Booster
This rooftop solar tracker could boost C&I project ROI by...

Solar trackers are taking over the ground-mount space and there are a few contenders emerging to do the same with commercial and industrial ...

June 1, 2020
News solarwakeup tracking
Most residential solar installers expect pre-COVID sales to return by...

SolarWakeup has circulated and compiled a survey of how companies in the residential solar industry are being impacted by the COVID-19 crisi...

June 1, 2020
News electricity prices
Sense explains how COVID has changed home energy usage

Based on an analysis of changes in home energy trends across the country since COVID-19, Sense found that the average home electrical usage ...

June 1, 2020
News sunmofoNanoMount - Rafter
Residential Mounting and Racking Buyer’s Guide 2020: The How-To Edition

For this year’s Residential Mounting and Racking Buyer’s Guide, we asked residential rooftop mounting and rail system providers ...

June 1, 2020
News Treasury dept
FYI: Solar Investment Tax Credit safe harbor provision extended to...

New guidance from the Treasury Department confirms that the safe harbor provisions for the solar Investment Tax Credit will be extended unti...

May 28, 2020
News SDSI and iPLON
Solar Data Systems brings iPLON India’s utility-scale PV monitoring tech...

Solar Data Systems Inc., an official provider of Solar-Log hardware-agnostic energy monitoring and management, has teamed up with iPLON Indi...

May 28, 2020
Products Terra Pave Albedo solar tracker farm
Bifacial solar site enhancer Terra Pave Albedo is an American-Made...

Terra Pave Albedo, made available via Beckett Solar Energy, (something we reported on here), was named a finalist in the AMERICAN-...

May 28, 2020
News PVEL PV module reliability scorecard
Solar module quality concerns raised in PVEL’s annual PV Module...

The 6th Edition of the PV Module Reliability Scorecard from independent test lab PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) shows several concerning qual...

May 28, 2020
Batteries simpliphi VPP
This virtual power plant demo in Louisiana tests a cool,...

Heila Technologies is deploying intelligent energy storage+solar systems at a demonstration project in Shreveport, La., using SimpliPhi...

May 28, 2020