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expansion Stem Partner Program expands via BayWa r.e., Soligent partnerships to broaden C&I storage market
Chris Crowell
January 29, 2020
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News perovskite solar cell
Perovskite solar modules survive three lifetime tests for first time, says Solliance
January 29, 2020
Projects Solar training
McCarthy to hire 300+ workers to build Michigan’s largest solar farm
January 28, 2020
News APS Arizona utility
Arizona Public Services sets aggressive near-term targets on way to carbon-free 2050 goal
January 28, 2020
Policy Solar Power Rocks Report
Takeaways from the 2020 State Solar Power Rankings Report (where does your state rank and why?)
January 28, 2020
Financing CleanCapital
CleanCapital caps off its record year with a seven-project, 16-MW...

CleanCapital announced today its final acquisition of 2019, a 16.5 megawatt portfolio consisting of seven operating solar projects. CleanCap...

January 27, 2020
News Spencer community solar farms
CIT Group leads on financing this New York community solar...

CIT Group’s Power and Energy unit served as sole lead arranger on a $42.8 million in debt financing to support NY Solar Farms, a 70-me...

January 27, 2020
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New Orleans promotes free solar evaluations as part of Solar...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is breaking from Louisiana’s poor solar policy grade with a new Solar for All NOLA program. Solar fo...

January 27, 2020
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SunStreet, Lennar and NAHB to demo a solar home at...

SunStreet Energy Group, the only solar power company designed for homebuilders by a homebuilder, is teaming up with National Association of ...

January 27, 2020
News Trina solar 210 module
Trina Solar has 210-mm silicon wafer, 500-W solar panels ready...

Trina Solar Co. says its first large-size module with a 210 mm silicon wafer developed by the company, aptly named the 210 module, is now ro...

January 27, 2020
News headline solar install
Business is booming at Illinois’ Headline Solar, and they are...

Headline Solar is one of Illinois’ fastest growing solar company, hitting $5.2 million in revenue after just nine months of operation....

January 27, 2020
News SolaRack
Sunnova adds racking manufacturer SolaRack to its approved vendor list

SolaRack, an American solar racking manufacturer, today announced it has been added to the approved vendor list of privately held U.S. resid...

January 27, 2020
News two shovels in the sand
GEM Energy constructing solar array at Ohio’s Penta Career Center...

Construction begins this spring in Perrysburg, Ohio, on a $2 million solar array that will provide nearly 60 percent of the electricity need...

January 27, 2020
Residential Solar lumin smart home
Hello Lumin: Get to know this nifty smart circuit, energy...

PV systems are 25-year assets, and we probably don’t think enough about how long that is and what it means for a solar installation bu...

January 27, 2020
News solar farm
Delaware Electric Cooperative doubles size of the Bruce A. Henry...

Delaware Electric Cooperative and Constellation have completed work to nearly double the size of the Co-op’s Bruce A. Henry Solar Farm...

January 23, 2020
Financing Spruce finance-001
Spruce Finance adds a 31-MW portfolio of residential solar assets

Spruce Finance, a large private owner and operator of residential solar assets, has completed its most significant solar portfolio acquisiti...

January 23, 2020
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More than 100,000 homes have gone solar via Mosaic’s financing...

  Solar loans are officially trending above solar leases in the residential space, and Mosaic has been one of the leaders in making thi...

January 23, 2020
News rolla rack
Cleveland-based company gets DOE grant money for its new commercial...

Acme Express Inc., a Cleveland-based, technology development company, has been awarded a $1-million Small Business Innovation Research grant...

January 23, 2020
News virtual power plants
Four key indicators to identify virtual power plant markets

Virtual power plants (VPPs) are moving from concept to broad deployment throughout many countries worldwide, aiming to get the most out of d...

January 23, 2020
News solar RFP
NV Energy issues RFP for solar, geothermal, wind and will...

NV Energy issued a request for proposals to add new renewable energy projects to its portfolio, seeking solar, geothermal, wind, biomass and...

January 22, 2020