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SMA service portal SMA America launches new online service center with streamlined approach for installers, customers
Chris Crowell
June 22, 2020
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Big deal: Sunrun and SCE team up on virtual power plant program
June 22, 2020
News KB Home Sunpower
SunPower, KB Home debut OneRoof — a solar PV system designed for new homes
June 22, 2020
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Vivint Solar customers can now be a utility resource via EnergyHub partnership
June 22, 2020
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Pure Safety Group debuts new fall protection system — Guardian Retractable HLL
June 22, 2020
News Citadel-roofing solar
Wildfire response: Citadel Roofing and Solar opens new office in...

Citadel Roofing & Solar has opened an office in Santa Rosa, Calif., in response to growing demand for its products from area homeowners ...

June 19, 2020
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IEEFA: Outdated Bureau of Land Management policies hinder solar development

The largest property owner in the U.S.—the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)—has acreage set aside for utility-scale solar develop...

June 19, 2020
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Sonnen debuts ecoLinx 30 — a bigger, badder home energy...

Sonnen announced the launch of the ecoLinx 30 intelligent energy storage system, which will integrate sonnen’s battery chemistry with ...

June 19, 2020
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Power Factors to add Heliolytics aerial inspections into Drive platform

Power Factors, LLC, provider of technical asset management and field service management platform for clean energy, is integrating with Helio...

June 19, 2020
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Westhaven Solar becomes Westhaven Power — now a full service,...

CEO of Westhaven Inc. Brett Joerger started things off in building customized, top of the line, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (...

June 18, 2020
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DEPCOM, Power Factor, Solar Support team to protect utility solar...

Solar Support, DEPCOM Power Inc., (DEPCOM) and Power Factor have partnered to expand the capabilities of their extreme weather restoration a...

June 17, 2020
News RPCS tracker projects
RPCS to deliver over 85 MW of solar tracker projects...

RP Construction Services, Inc. (RPCS) and the Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA) have partnered to build a number of solar tracker projec...

June 17, 2020
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sPower goes with SunLogix as warehouse partner for largest solar...

sPower selected SunLogix as the warehouse partner for the Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. sPower is a lea...

June 17, 2020
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8minute Solar Energy signs its first PPA with a California...

8minute Solar Energy executed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Monterey Bay Community Power Authority (MBCP) and Silicon Valley Clean E...

June 17, 2020
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Community solar often blocked by utilities lobbying uninformed policymakers

From Energy News Network: Utility lobbying has blocked community solar expansion, but a recent study suggests it’s been effective in p...

June 17, 2020
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SunPower commercial dealers gain new financing option via Bank of...

SunPower Corp. closed a new program with Bank of the West which will provide SunPower Commercial dealers a new financing option as part of a...

June 17, 2020
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STAG Industrial adding four rooftop solar systems on East Coast...

Real estate investment trust STAG Industrial announced the groundbreaking of four new solar rooftop systems in Massachusetts and one in New ...

June 17, 2020
News Silver Springs Food
World’s largest horseradish grower adds solar PV system in Northern...

Silver Spring Foods, the world’s largest grower and processor of horseradish, has made several business moves in the last three months...

June 17, 2020
News Lennar Homes - Sierra Ridge - Parker, CO
Roof assessment checklist for rack-mounted solar installs

The technology and techniques for mounting solar panels on roofs has been around for a surprisingly long time (as early as 1884). Thanks to ...

June 17, 2020
News Purdue hot electrons research
Researchers uncover way to study ‘hot electrons’ — a step...

Highly energetic, “hot” electrons have the potential to help solar panels more efficiently harvest light energy, but scientists ...

June 16, 2020