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April 28, 2020
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Wild West no more: Why transparency is imperative for the growth of solar
April 28, 2020
News Loanpal
This Loanpal Direct Pay Program for solar installers eases the burden of equipment financing
April 27, 2020
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COVID-19 update: Home solar sales still down, but process improvements show results
April 27, 2020
News GAF Energy
GAF Energy upgrades its roof-integrated solar PV concept with DecoTech 2.0
April 27, 2020
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SunPower will cover the first six months of home solar...

Desperate times call for drastic measures. Looking for some new, radical ways to keep residential solar installs flowing during the COVID sh...

April 27, 2020
News Solar Log Data systems
Solar Data Systems now a provider of EmaZys’ slick Z200...

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

April 27, 2020
News Q Cells
Q CELLS doubles its market share in the U.S. solar...

According to the Q1 2020 U.S. PV Leaderboard report by leading energy research and consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, Q...

April 27, 2020
News Extensible Plus
Extensible Energy tells us how to reduce commercial demand charges...

Solar PV systems for commercial buildings seem like a no-brainer considering the roof space, but growth has been slow in this segment in par...

April 24, 2020
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Solar Distancing: Sizing a storage system based on an energy...

Sizing out a PV system is somewhat simple. Sizing the storage element to pair with it is much more nuanced and complex depending on whether ...

April 23, 2020
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Big news: California PUC adds ‘avoided transmission costs’ to value...

  In a big win for clean local energy in California, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has agreed to include avoided tr...

April 23, 2020
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8minute Solar Energy added 3-GW of large-scale solar to its...

8minute Solar Energy has added 3 gigawatts (GW) of large-scale solar projects to its development pipeline this month, for a total of over 18...

April 23, 2020
News origis energy
Origis Energy, Royal DSM agree to virtual PPA for Rockhound...

  Origis Energy announced a large-scale virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Royal DSM, a global science-based nutrion and heal...

April 23, 2020
News Jiangsu-Seraphim
Seraphim with a new 166 mm half-cut bifacial solar PV...

Jiangsu Seraphim Solar System Co., Ltd. (Seraphim), a world-class solar product manufacturer in China, rolled out its new 166 mm half-cut ce...

April 22, 2020
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Two California CCAs sign solar, storage agreements with First Solar

First Solar signed two 15-year Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) Monterey Bay Community Power (MBCP)...

April 22, 2020
News solar prices on trees
Average residential solar system now under $3 per Watt on...

EnergySage released its tenth semiannual Solar Marketplace Intel Report, which is based on millions of transaction-level data points generat...

April 22, 2020
News Prairie-Wolf
Geronimo Energy, Cargill finalize another virtual PPA (maybe the largest...

Geronimo Energy, a National Grid company, and Cargill finalized a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) for the Prairie Wolf Solar Project...

April 22, 2020
News Solaria PowerXT deployed
Solaria PowerXT 400W panel now available to drive more rooftop...

Premium solar energy product provider Solaria Corp. introduced PowerXT 400W this week, one of the highest power and most aesthetically pleas...

April 22, 2020
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Watch: Generac explains its Power Zoning solar PV approach

What is Power Zoning? Your guess is as good as ours, so we asked Jeff McAndrew, director of sales, for clean energy solutions at Generac to ...

April 22, 2020
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Watch: What is round-trip efficiency?

The performance of a solar + storage system is tied to the round-trip efficiency of the entire system — how many electrons are capture...

April 21, 2020