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May 11, 2020
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Featured Blue Planet microgrid controller
Exclusive look at Blue Ion LXHV, a high-voltage commercial microgrid solution from Blue Planet Energy
May 11, 2020
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SunCrafter gets innovative by reusing end of life solar PV modules as hand sanitizers
May 11, 2020
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Midwest Solar Expo is trying a ‘fully immersive virtual conference’ format (photos)
May 11, 2020
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St. Louis passes a building energy performance standard (a first in the Midwest)
May 11, 2020
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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
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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
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REC Solar completes microgrid install for Dependable Hawaiian Express freight...

Dependable Hawaiian Express and REC Solar, an unregulated affiliate of Duke Energy, installed a solar microgrid solution (complete with ball...

May 6, 2020
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This Raycatch solar asset management system update is nicknamed the...

The solar energy industry currently needs oversight that requires less physical human presence on the assets, as part of the social distanci...

May 6, 2020
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Illinois sparked a solar residential boom, but COVID-19 and stalled...

From the Energy News Network: Illinois’s solar industry, which until recently had been booming, could be decimated by the coronavirus ...

May 5, 2020
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SolRiver, Rockland team up to acquire solar projects in 2...

SolRiver Capital LLC, a solar investment fund that owns distributed-generation and utility-scale projects, closed an equity commitment from ...

May 5, 2020
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Fossil fuel developer jumps into massive solar project in Texas

Solar Plus Development, a subsidiary of Plus Renewable Technologies, Limited, and Avondale Solar LLC have entered into an agreement with J-P...

May 5, 2020
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SunPower signs $1 billion financing deal with Technology Credit Union

SunPower Corp. announced a whopping $1 billion partnership with Technology Credit Union (Tech CU) that will increase financing options for q...

May 5, 2020
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Spruce Finance closes huge debt financing deal for its residential...

Spruce Finance, a large private owner and operator of distributed generation solar and residential energy assets in the U.S., has closed a $...

May 4, 2020
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Ginlong Solis inverters now SunSpec-certified for rapid shutdown

Ginlong Technologies officially rolled out its portfolio of SunSpec-certified residential, hybrid and commercial inverters to the U.S. marke...

May 4, 2020
News Encore renewable energy
Encore Renewable Energy approved to build a 5-MW solar project...

All permits required for Encore Renewable Energy to construct a 5-MW solar array on underutilized land in Oakland, Maine, have been approved...

May 4, 2020
News virtual remote sales
Direct Solar America’s decentralized, virtual sales connect solar installers with...

  Direct Solar America, a subsidiary of SinglePoint, is a solar concierge of sorts that partners with solar installers throughout the c...

May 4, 2020