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PosiGen solar leases Low-income solar provider PosiGen poised to keep growing with new debt facility
Chris Crowell
March 5, 2020
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News GAF Energy
Florida’s High Tower Roofing to start installing roof-integrated GAF Energy solar PV
March 5, 2020
News Florida
Sunshine statement: Florida Public Service Commission paves way for landmark solar energy ‘green tariff’ program
March 4, 2020
News solar energy idea
Utilities need to play a bigger role incentivizing solar energy in low-income areas
March 4, 2020
News ShopCore and Safari Energy
Safari Energy strikes deal with ShopCore Properties (and its 20 million sq ft of real estate)
March 4, 2020
News OutBack Power Skybox
Solar+storage upgrade: OutBack Power releases AC coupling firmware update for...

Faced with extreme weather events and unexpected and planned power outages, flexible energy storage solutions provide solar array owners wit...

March 4, 2020
News SOLTAGE- Logo
Soltage raises debt facility for 110-MW, six-state solar portfolio via...

Independent power producer Soltage raised a $142 million senior construction-to-term credit facility with Fifth Third Bank, National Associa...

March 3, 2020
News SDC Energy Commercial Project - CA
SDC Energy launches cool investment fund to build commercial PV...

SDC Energy, a bespoke investment firm specializing in renewable investments, launched the SDSF Solar Fund IV for private investors, family o...

March 3, 2020
O&M EMpro phoenix contact
Phoenix Contact’s EMpro provides real-time, remote access to solar plant...

Plant operators and facility managers now have real-time, remote access to their machines’ energy consumption data, with Phoenix Conta...

March 3, 2020
News solar installer survey
Solar installer confidence continues to grow (along with soft costs)...

The fifth annual Solar Installer Survey from EnergySage, in partnership with the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners...

March 3, 2020
Inverters and eBOS solar builder inverter buyers guide
Solar PV Inverter Buyer’s Guide 2020: 14 manufacturers tell us...

The Solar Builder annual Solar PV Inverter Buyer’s Guide is a chance to check in with all of the inverter manufacturers – from t...

March 3, 2020
News sense-monitor-2
Sense Home Energy Monitor adds partner program for rural cooperatives

At the TechAdvantage conference this week, Sense is debuting its partner program for rural cooperatives. Through the program, cooperatives c...

March 2, 2020
News Bartlett Farm solar project
Dynamic Energy finishes phase 2 in Bartlett’s Farm solar site...

Bartlett’s Farm is widely known as the oldest and largest family-owned farm on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. Seven generations of...

March 2, 2020
Solar Trackers RPCS Array Technologies
Install Insights: RPCS explains why it prefers Array Technologies’ trackers

For another perspective on the ins and outs of Array Technologies’ technology, we reached out to RP Construction Services (RPCS), a tu...

March 2, 2020
News mccarthy-building-companies
McCarthy Building Companies begins construction on Turquoise Solar project in...

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. recently began construction on a large-scale solar project in Sparks, Nev. The Turquoise Solar project enco...

March 2, 2020
News Todays Power
RPCS strengthens partnership with Today’s Power, Inc. with 2020 pipeline

RP Construction Services, Inc. (RPCS) has strengthened its partnership with electric cooperative subsidiary Today’s Power, Inc. (TPI) ...

February 28, 2020
News Panasonic solar solutions
Panasonic launches new Elite Tier in its Residential Solar Installer...

Panasonic added an Elite tier to its Residential Solar Installer Program to recognize and reward standout installers with best-in-class bene...

February 28, 2020
News solar energy growth
Solar energy growing faster than all renewables in latest U.S....

Renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for 18.2% of net domestic electrical generation duri...

February 28, 2020
News Connecticut Superior Court
Connecticut solar installers are in legal fight over property tax...

This article was originally published on Energy News Network. Court cases dispute the definition of “private residential use” fo...

February 28, 2020
News Screenshot Deepsolar
Chatting about improving PV plant performance with BayWa-backed Raycatch

Last May, we reported on a cool new AI-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, DeepSolar, a diagnostic system that enables la...

February 27, 2020