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new home california Sunrun partners with Citadel Roofing to serve California’s new-build home solar market
Chris Crowell
October 7, 2019
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News clean energy states alliance
Clean Energy States Alliance launches DOE-funded initiative to bring solar to low-income communities
October 7, 2019
News Welcome to Illinois Sign
First projects approved in the Illinois Solar for All program
October 7, 2019
News SolarEdge
SolarEdge files three patent infringement lawsuits against Huawei in China
October 7, 2019
News global solar
Wood Mac: The top 10 global PV asset owners have over 22 GW of total solar capacity
October 7, 2019
News Tariff Change
About-facial: Trump administration to end the tariff exemption for imported...

  Bifacial solar panels were abuzz at this year’s Solar Power International in Salt Lake City. Most PV module manufacturers had a...

October 7, 2019
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Tigo has a new version of its fire safety solution...

Tigo Energy released a new TS4-A-2F (Fire Safety) at Solar Power International this year — the same advanced retrofit/add-on rapi...

October 2, 2019
Mounting Guide unirac
Unirac now has a solar installer certification program

At Solar Power International this year, Unirac launched the first solar racking specific certification program in the industry for committed...

October 2, 2019
Projects shovel ready utility scale solar
Details on a portfolio of five huge solar plants (1.7...

Intersect Power, a utility-scale renewable energy developer, along with Chattanooga, Tenn.-based EPC Signal Energy, has five massive sh...

October 2, 2019
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Will the U.S. energy storage market be weaker than expected?...

Energy storage will grow from 6 GWh installed today to over 635 GWh cumulatively by 2030 says a new report from Rethink Technology Research....

October 2, 2019
Financing solar panels and money
Keystate Renewables launches a solar tax credit fund for community...

The KeyState Renewables announced the launch of SOLCAP FUND I, LLC, an institutional investor tax credit fund dedicated to the most underser...

October 2, 2019
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Standard Solar adds California’s Lake Elsinore Unified School District to...

  Standard Solar keeps expanding its footprint across the country, announcing this week the acquisition of a 7-MW portfolio of distribu...

October 2, 2019
News solar finance forecast
This new tool from DNV GL creates 10,000 realities for...

Global energy certification body DNV GL has developed an advanced tool that uses very granular data from the past 20 years to create the equ...

October 2, 2019
News CALSSA
California’s solar association strengthens the consumer protection rules for its...

The California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA) recently updated its Code of Ethics with a detailed section on new consumer protecti...

October 2, 2019
News nearmap
Nearmap, OpenSolar combine forces for a dynamic solar design and...

  Nearmap and OpenSolar have joined forces to give solar installers a single tool that provides detailed aerial images and solar design...

October 1, 2019
News SPI 2019
SPI recap: Solar politics, corporate influence, diversity and system innovation...

Solar Power International is an untamable beast for us trade publication writers. Hundreds of exhibitors with new products and services, tra...

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