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Chris Crowell
January 6, 2020
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News commercial designer autostsring
Details on new features added to the SolarEdge commercial Designer tool
January 6, 2020
News Schneider-Electric-Logo
Schneider Electric gets into the residential energy management game with Square D Connected Home
January 6, 2020
News Sense Solar
Sense updates its Solar Home Energy Monitor app to show home vs. grid usage
January 6, 2020
News SEIA SPI 2019 abby hopper
SEIA starts 2020 by reiterating its 20 percent of generation by 2030 goal
January 6, 2020
Financing solar loans and leases
Four notes on the rise of residential solar loans over...

According to the U.S. residential solar finance update: H2 2019 from Wood Mackenzie, solar loans are officially outpacing leases in the resi...

January 2, 2020
News array technologies fangear
Solar tracker supplier Array Technologies partners with new logistics company

Phoenix Logistics, an affiliate of national private commercial real estate firm Phoenix Investors headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., announce...

January 2, 2020
News solar wind
Renewable energy could top natural gas in new capacity added...

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S....

December 31, 2019
News Sunnova residential solar-001
Sunnova, bullish on 2020 sales, announces safe harbor purchase and...

Sunnova Energy International Inc. closed an aggregate $150 million in financing through an approximately $95 million revolving asset-based l...

December 31, 2019
News 19 best articles
The 19 best Solar Builder articles from 2019

Looking back at 2019, if I had to pick a pun moniker for the solar industry (and I do), it wasn’t so much a ‘solar-coaster&rsquo...

December 31, 2019
News california solar crash course
California new-build solar mandate crash course

2020 – the dawn of the Solar+ Decade – kicks off with the official launch of California’s much heralded (and controversial...

December 30, 2019
News solar energy PPA handshake
EDF Renewables signs PPA for 100-MW slice of the Palen...

While we were waiting for Santa, EDF Renewables North America signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with CleanPowerSF for a 100 me...

December 27, 2019
News renewable energy investment
Survey of U.K. investors shows serious interest in renewable energy...

Renewable energy is the top investment sector for investors in the United Kingdom, a survey by GraniteShares has revealed. Almost a third of...

December 27, 2019
News sullivan solar power
Sullivan Solar Power’s director of community development named one of...

Sullivan Solar Power‘s Director of Community Development, Tara Hammond, was recently honored as one of San Diego Business Journal&rsqu...

December 27, 2019
News westhaven solar
How Westhaven helps its community beyond solar energy installs

Today we salute Westhaven Inc., a solar installer and complete energy solution provider based in Yuba City, Calif., for the launch of Westha...

December 27, 2019
News Arlington-II
Facebook’s first solar farm in Georgia is commissioned

Facebook’s first solar project in the state of Georgia, the Bancroft Station Solar Farm, was officially commissioned of on December 12...

December 20, 2019
News United States solar energy
DNV GL report shows how U.S. solar industry succeeds in...

The transition from carbon-intensive generation to clean and renewable energy is picking up the pace in the United States, finds DNV GL&rsqu...

December 20, 2019
News Swift coat
Swift Coat awarded $1 million to commercialize its self-cleaning PV...

Swift Coat Inc., an Arizona State University spin-out company specializing in nano-coatings, was selected to receive a $1 million award from...

December 20, 2019
News Sigora panels
Sigora Solar caps off awesome 2019 by being part of...

  Earlier this month, Sigora Solar and Standard Solar were one of the three team contract awardees and the primary rooftop solar awarde...

December 20, 2019
News Forefront power project
New York State celebrates 2 GW of solar at this...

The New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that two gigawatts of solar capacity has been installed across th...

December 19, 2019