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November 21, 2019
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News 8minute energy solar project
8minute Solar Energy, Capital Dynamics cut ribbon on 450-MW Springbok Solar Cluster
November 21, 2019
News south carolina solar policy
South Carolina set to lose a bunch of solar jobs, progress after setting insanely low solar rates
November 21, 2019
News Countdown to 2020 part 6
Countdown to 2020, part VI: Time’s Up, California
November 21, 2019
Financing solar panels and money
Cambridge Savings Bank finances three solar facilities in Massachusetts for Kearsarge Energy
November 21, 2019
News PWRcell System Image
Home standby generator giant Generac details its plans to establish...

The residential solar + storage market is still more buzz than business as we finish out 2019, but Generac, the largest brand in the home st...

November 20, 2019
News Capitol building congress
House includes solar Investment Tax Credit extension in clean energy...

Today the House Ways and Means Committee released a comprehensive clean energy tax package that includes a five-year extension of the 30% so...

November 19, 2019
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Get to Know: Vikram Solar and its three new PV...

At Solar Power International this year we chatted with Ravindra Vaidya, VP of global markets for Vikram Solar, about the company’s upc...

November 19, 2019
News SunTurf Roof Mount
SunModo’s SunTurf designed to overcome both rooftop and ground mount...

  Navigating obstacles on the roof or ground used to be one of a solar installer’s worst challenges. SunModo‘s newest solar...

November 18, 2019
News Target solar install
Target celebrates reaching 500 solar installations

It may not be a cool enough chain to win a Project of the Year award, but Target has long been a champion of solar energy. Back in 2015, Tar...

November 18, 2019
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SunDAT solar site modeling tool now includes solar project cost...

With every week seeming to bring a new record low PPA price to the PV industry, extracting every cent of value from a project is crucial. La...

November 18, 2019
News reject proposal
Bullet dodged or delayed? California’s new home solar mandate still...

Not sure if you noticed, but California’s new home solar mandate is almost here (we’ve only written like 20,000 words on it so f...

November 18, 2019
News long island
Solar advocates call for LIPA to reverse decision that will...

A coalition of over 40 elected officials, industry organizations, environmental groups, public advocates and electricity ratepayers gathered...

November 18, 2019
News Resilience
SolarOne details new resiliency-focused New York solar projects

Whether triggered by unprecedented storms, heatwaves or wildfires, blackouts are becoming increasingly common and hazardous. New Yorkers who...

November 18, 2019
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SunPower offers 22 million shares in public stock offering

SunPower Corporation is offering to sell, subject to market and other conditions, 22 million shares of its common stock through an underwrit...

November 18, 2019
Financing recurrent energy
NextEnergy Capital acquires 99 percent of a Recurrent Energy solar...

Canadian Solar Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Recurrent Energy closed a sale of 99 percent of its Class B membership interest in ...

November 18, 2019
News CAB Solar
CAB Solar earns ninth patent for its solar wire management...

CAB Solar was awarded a second U.S. Patent for its Solar Cable Management System with Integrated Grounding. CAB’s newest patent is the...

November 15, 2019
News Ben Lee Solar Panel Image
BENLEE adds rooftop solar system to Michigan headquarters via POWERHOME...

BENLEE, a leading roll-off trailer and lugger truck manufacturer in North America, has established new sustainability goals for 2020 and bey...

November 15, 2019
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Does SunPower’s exit from PV manufacturing signal a changing trend?

Following the recent announcement that SunPower, one of America’s largest solar-panel makers, is to exit from the manufacturing busine...

November 15, 2019
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LG integrates its storage system with Sunverge to provide grid...

Sunverge, a provider of an industry-leading Distributed Energy Resource (DER) control and aggregation platform, is fully integrating its Sun...

November 13, 2019