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standard-solar-enews Standard Solar adds California’s Lake Elsinore Unified School District to its solar project portfolio
Chris Crowell
October 2, 2019
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News solar finance forecast
This new tool from DNV GL creates 10,000 realities for renewable energy project forecasting
October 2, 2019
News CALSSA
California’s solar association strengthens the consumer protection rules for its members
October 2, 2019
News nearmap
Nearmap, OpenSolar combine forces for a dynamic solar design and sales software tool
October 1, 2019
News SPI 2019
SPI recap: Solar politics, corporate influence, diversity and system innovation stand out in 2019
October 1, 2019
News AlsoEnergy PowerTrack
Goldman Sachs goes with AlsoEnergy for control and monitoring of...

Portfolio aggregation is a growing trend in the renewable energy industry. Years of growth and consolidation have yielded larger, more diver...

September 30, 2019
News EVgo
Uber signs with EVgo to promote electrification of ridesharing

The electrification of ride sharing is a big step toward total clean energy and transportation disruption (read more here), which makes this...

September 30, 2019
News new columbia solar
New Columbia Solar and CleanChoice Energy add 1 MW of...

CleanChoice Energy and New Columbia Solar, the District’s largest solar energy company, have opened 1 megawatts of new community solar...

September 30, 2019
+ Storage simpliphi battery solar storage
This Sol-Ark, SimpliPhi Power collaboration is a sneaky great solar...

  SimpliPhi Power is collaborating with Sol-Ark (one of the best, up-and-coming solar + storage inverters on the market) on the latest ...

September 30, 2019
News lightstar agriculture agrivoltaics
CalCom Energy to fund $100 million in solar + storage...

CalCom Energy launched a $100 million resource to build solar and energy storage projects that will benefit farming communities in Californi...

September 30, 2019
Projects connecticut solar
Ameresco, Clean Energy Collective complete Connecticut’s first community solar project

The first project under Connecticut’s “Shared Clean Energy Facility Pilot Program” has been energized, according to Ameres...

September 30, 2019
News Caterpillar - Tucson Proving Ground - Entrance
Caterpillar makes a splash at SPI 2019 with its Hybrid...

Famed global equipment brand Caterpillar Inc. had a presence at both Solar Power International and Energy Storage International during North...

September 30, 2019
Solar Trackers Sunfolding t29
Sunfolding’s latest T29 solar tracker updates will simplify material transportation

Sunfolding, a growing producer of single-axis trackers, announced upgrades to its T29 Single-Axis Tracker in order to ease the transport of ...

September 30, 2019
+ Storage 1-to-3-Microgrid-for-EV-Charging-Stations
This Microgrid Power Source can deliver three-phase EV charging in...

Single Phase Power Solutions released the 1-to-3 Microgrid Power Source, a single-phase solution for Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Sta...

September 30, 2019
News SenseHawk applications
SenseHawk adds applications to handle solar plant design, construction and...

AI-powered solar software provider SenseHawk announced three new applications to SenseHawk Core, its cloud-based platform for solar, at...

September 30, 2019
News Countdown to 2020 installment V
Countdown to California 2020, Part V: Can the solar sector...

With solar power coming to every new home, the solar sector and grid planners in California try to meet in the middle. The Countdown to 2020...

September 26, 2019
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Investment protection: PVEL, Heliolytics launch natural disaster response service for...

Two industry-leading providers of field testing for solar power plants, Heliolytics and PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), have launched a new Incide...

September 24, 2019
News SEIA SPI 2019 abby hopper
SEIA kicks off Solar Power International with an ITC rallying...

Solar Power International started like all solar conferences do with the obligatory look back at how far things have come, which always feel...

September 24, 2019
News SolarEdge
SolarEdge SPI updates: A slick 120-kW inverter design, an upgrade...

SolarEdge Technologies is extending its commercial offering to improve the scalability of DC optimization in large PV installations. The com...

September 23, 2019
News coronal energy
Coronal Energy chooses QOS Energy to aggregate its solar asset...

Coronal Energy, a leading North American IPP specialized in solar PV, has selected QOS Energy, an innovative independent software vendor spe...

September 23, 2019