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January 23, 2020
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News solar RFP
NV Energy issues RFP for solar, geothermal, wind and will consider storage integrations
January 22, 2020
Projects Innovative Solar Systems
Innovative Solar Systems has six large-scale solar projects in Texas up for sale
January 22, 2020
Financing low cost
Capital Dynamics, 8minute Solar Energy hit record low cost on Eland Solar & Storage Center
January 22, 2020
Policy formal request for rehearing
National clean energy groups request a rehearing with FERC, claiming it undermines state programs with MOPR
January 22, 2020
News solar worker success
California’s largest CCA solar project to-date highlights the use of...

The largest renewable energy installation ever built for a California Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) agency is officially online. P...

January 22, 2020
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Fitch: Solar consistently beats wind in global renewable energy project...

Solar consistently outperforms wind among global renewable energy project ratings in Fitch Ratings’ universe, according to updated ana...

January 22, 2020
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Solar Landscape awarded 53 percent of rooftop projects in New...

Solar Landscape, a solar energy company specializing in large commercial solar installations, was awarded more than 20 megawatts of rooftop ...

January 21, 2020
News Petersen Dean
Petersen-Dean goes with Enphase for its solar inverter, storage solution

Petersen-Dean, Inc., one of the largest full-service, privately-held roofing and solar companies in the United States, has selected Enphase ...

January 21, 2020
News SMA sunny boy storage inverter
SMA inverters are first to be listed as compliant with...

As of this week, the California Energy Commission (CEC) has listed multiple SMA solar inverters under the updated Grid Support Solar Inverte...

January 21, 2020
News Funding
Battery storage funding leads the way in Mercom’s 2019 Storage,...

Funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity was down in the Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Energy Efficiency sectors in 2019 c...

January 20, 2020
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Pine Gate Renewables to build 13 mid-size solar farms in...

Pine Gate Renewables, a national utility-scale solar developer, is bringing 13 mid-size solar farm projects to Greenwood County, S.C. The co...

January 20, 2020
News solar stock decline
First Solar’s stock dropped last week after a Barclays Capital...

Investor website Motley Fool noticed that First Solar’s stock was taking a hit last week (9.8% as of their alert) and they traced the ...

January 20, 2020
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Humless adds a 4,000-cycle, 5 kWh lithium-iron phosphate battery to...

Humless debuted a new 5-kWh Lithium Iron Phosphate 4,000-cycle battery in its line of energy storage solutions for home and commercial use. ...

January 20, 2020
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Sunnova expands into Colorado, New Hampshire and brings storage product...

Sunnova Energy International continues to enter new states, announcing Colorado and New Hampshire last week. Sunnova also announced the expa...

January 20, 2020
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Northeast solar distributor altE sets its 2020 Solar Installer Conference...

altE Store, a distributor of solar panels and solar power products in the Northeast, announced the 2020 altE Solar Installer Conference will...

January 20, 2020
News OMCO solar tracker pierceton
Inside OMCO Solar’s strategy to serve the mid-size solar tracker...

Exhibit A: This recently completed tracker project in Pierceton, Ind., Solar trackers are proving to pencil out positively for smaller and s...

January 20, 2020
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Sunnova adds SunModo mounting, racking systems to its approved vendor...

Sunnova Energy International Inc., has added SunModo Corp., an innovator in the solar racking industry, to its exclusive Approved Vendor Lis...

January 17, 2020
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How Comet Solar improved ROI for customers with solar +...

Chris Mason, the owner of Comet Solar in Anguilla, has been installing and servicing solar PV plants in the Caribbean for almost 15 yea...

January 17, 2020
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TÜV Rheinland verifies JinkoSolar’s new bifacial module conversion efficiency record

JinkoSolar Holding Co. says it has broken the world record for the maximum conversion efficiency of mass produced bifacial solar cells, reac...

January 17, 2020