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Chris Crowell
January 27, 2020
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News headline solar install
Business is booming at Illinois’ Headline Solar, and they are looking to hire 100 more positions in 2020
January 27, 2020
News SolaRack
Sunnova adds racking manufacturer SolaRack to its approved vendor list
January 27, 2020
News two shovels in the sand
GEM Energy constructing solar array at Ohio’s Penta Career Center with First Solar Series 6 panels
January 27, 2020
Residential Solar lumin smart home
Hello Lumin: Get to know this nifty smart circuit, energy management tool
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
Projects Innovative Solar Systems
Innovative Solar Systems has six large-scale solar projects in Texas...

Innovative Solar Systems, LLC, (ISS) is offering for immediate acquisition six highly desirable large-scale solar PV projects in the ERCOT [...

January 22, 2020
Financing low cost
Capital Dynamics, 8minute Solar Energy hit record low cost on...

Capital Dynamics’ Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) business signed a development partnership with 8minute Solar Energy for the equity...

January 22, 2020
Policy formal request for rehearing
National clean energy groups request a rehearing with FERC, claiming...

Four national clean energy organizations are calling out Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its “regulatory overreach&rdq...

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
News green energy solar panel vs versus wind turbine vector
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
News Valcor Engineering Springfield NJ
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