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Vivint solar Vivint Solar promotes new PPA rate for residential solar + storage in California
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December 3, 2019
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News Palomar Solar PV design
Faith in solar: Places of worship doubled their installed solar capacity over three years
November 26, 2019
News Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Solar Center opens to help small businesses in the state go solar
November 26, 2019
News ESDEC team
Consolidated Power: Esdec tells us about its big moves in the U.S. solar mounting and racking space
November 26, 2019
News groundbreaking shovels
Rhode Island community solar project underway via Nautilus, TurningPoint, DEPCOM Power
November 25, 2019
News facepalm
Ohio’s PUC denies AEP’s request to facilitate large solar project...

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio denied AEP Ohio’s request last week to facilitate the development of 400 MW of solar energy in...

November 25, 2019
News MCE Clean Energy
California community aggregator MCE commits $3 million for resiliency projects

California’s first Community Choice Aggregation program MCE voted last week to commit $3 million to support resiliency projects for it...

November 25, 2019
News Savion_LLC
Utility-scale solar, storage developer Savion launches with 8 GW already...

Savion announced its official launch as a new utility-scale solar and energy storage project development company this week. Backed by Macqua...

November 22, 2019
News When disaster stikes your site_Solar Supprt
Solar Support launches inverter support, plant restoration service for utility-scale...

Solar Support, an engineering services company, is launching a cool integrated equipment and plant restoration and recovery solution. The go...

November 21, 2019
News Heliogen main (compressed)
Bill Gates-backed Heliogen has a concentrated solar breakthrough that can...

For the first time commercially, there is a concentrated solar energy system to exceed temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius &mdas...

November 21, 2019
News SenseHawk App Image 11-18-19
SenseHawk releases app to improve solar site worker productivity

SenseHawk’s has created an application to combine a variety of critical productivity tools with an intuitive interface for solar ...

November 21, 2019
News 8minute energy solar project
8minute Solar Energy, Capital Dynamics cut ribbon on 450-MW Springbok...

8minute Solar Energy, one of the largest independent solar and storage developer in the U.S., and Capital Dynamics, an independent global pr...

November 21, 2019
News south carolina solar policy
South Carolina set to lose a bunch of solar jobs,...

The solar industry made South Carolina a priority this year. The state had outdated regulations that were holding back renewable energy dema...

November 21, 2019
News Countdown to 2020 part 6
Countdown to 2020, part VI: Time’s Up, California

This final article in our Countdown to 2020 series originally appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of Solar Builder. Subscribe here ...

November 21, 2019
Financing solar panels and money
Cambridge Savings Bank finances three solar facilities in Massachusetts for...

Boston law firm Sherin and Lodgen LLP announces that its Renewable Energy Practice Group represented Cambridge Savings Bank in a portfolio c...

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