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December 5, 2019
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News mcelroy metal solar roof
McElroy Metal adds solar system with roof recover at its third manufacturing plant
December 3, 2019
Financing EnerBank
EnerBank adds four new flexible repayment options for solar customers
December 3, 2019
News six flags carport solar
Six Flags in Northern California becomes first solar-powered theme park
December 3, 2019
News wind and solar growth
Solar and wind combine to outpace natural gas in new generating capacity in September
December 3, 2019
News down arrow falling prices
Trump’s solar tariff disaster: 62,000 jobs and $19 billion in...

Tariffs on imported solar cells and modules have led to the loss of more than 62,000 U.S. jobs and $19 billion in new private sector investm...

December 3, 2019
News sol systems under armour ribbon cutting
Under Armour goes solar via 3-MW Sol Systems, Greenback project

Under Armour joins the ranks of corporations prioritizing renewable energy and sustainability goals. Increasingly, top U.S. corporations lik...

December 3, 2019
+ Storage Vivint solar
Vivint Solar promotes new PPA rate for residential solar +...

Full-service residential solar provider Vivint Solar has a new power purchase agreement (PPA) option that includes one simple rate for both ...

December 3, 2019
News Palomar Solar PV design
Faith in solar: Places of worship doubled their installed solar...

Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) conducted a new survey to quantify installed solar on congregations in the U.S.—and found a doublin...

November 26, 2019
News Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Solar Center opens to help small businesses in the...

The Pennsylvania Solar Center, a new statewide solar energy resource hub established to guide non-profits and small businesses through the s...

November 26, 2019
News ESDEC team
Consolidated Power: Esdec tells us about its big moves in...

When I first saw the Esdec FlatFix at Solar Power International in Anaheim in 2018, I thought the Netherlands-based solar racking company ha...

November 26, 2019
News groundbreaking shovels
Rhode Island community solar project underway via Nautilus, TurningPoint, DEPCOM...

TurningPoint Energy and Nautilus Solar Energy broke ground on the King community solar project in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. The projec...

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