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Funding Battery storage funding leads the way in Mercom’s 2019 Storage, Smart Grid, Energy Efficiency activity report
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January 20, 2020
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Pine Gate Renewables to build 13 mid-size solar farms in this South Carolina county
January 20, 2020
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First Solar’s stock dropped last week after a Barclays Capital downgrade
January 20, 2020
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Humless adds a 4,000-cycle, 5 kWh lithium-iron phosphate battery to its lineup
January 20, 2020
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Sunnova expands into Colorado, New Hampshire and brings storage product to South Carolina
January 20, 2020
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Northeast solar distributor altE sets its 2020 Solar Installer Conference...

altE Store, a distributor of solar panels and solar power products in the Northeast, announced the 2020 altE Solar Installer Conference will...

January 20, 2020
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Inside OMCO Solar’s strategy to serve the mid-size solar tracker...

Exhibit A: This recently completed tracker project in Pierceton, Ind., Solar trackers are proving to pencil out positively for smaller and s...

January 20, 2020
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Sunnova adds SunModo mounting, racking systems to its approved vendor...

Sunnova Energy International Inc., has added SunModo Corp., an innovator in the solar racking industry, to its exclusive Approved Vendor Lis...

January 17, 2020
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How Comet Solar improved ROI for customers with solar +...

Chris Mason, the owner of Comet Solar in Anguilla, has been installing and servicing solar PV plants in the Caribbean for almost 15 yea...

January 17, 2020
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TÜV Rheinland verifies JinkoSolar’s new bifacial module conversion efficiency record

JinkoSolar Holding Co. says it has broken the world record for the maximum conversion efficiency of mass produced bifacial solar cells, reac...

January 17, 2020
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Unirac is taking this new non-penetrating solar mounting system worldwide

Unirac Inc. signed an exclusive global license deal with Solar Stack, a Florida-based manufacturer that has developed non-ballaste...

January 17, 2020
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Vivint Solar confirms: Americans are feeling guilty about wasting energy

Vivint Solar released the results of an interesting new survey they took to gauge the state of eco guilt throughout the country —...

January 16, 2020
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Kresge Foundation makes a $3 million commitment to solar +...

The Kresge Foundation, Clean Energy Group (CEG) and New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC) announced groundbreaking $3.3 milli...

January 16, 2020
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Polysilicon gets relief in Trump’s new China trade deal (updated...

The Trump administration came to an agreement today on the first phase of a bilateral trade agreement with China for a variety of American p...

January 15, 2020
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Sunpin Solar breaks ground on 98-MW Titan Solar 1 Project

Sunpin Solar, a California-based solar developer, held a groundbreaking ceremony on Jan. 10, 2020, celebrating the start of construction on ...

January 15, 2020
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Voltus wins big demand response auction in California

Voltus Inc., the leading demand response provider to commercial and industrial customers, has won the right to deliver nearly 50 MWs of new ...

January 15, 2020
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Eliminate small commercial demand charges with just solar and Extensible’s...

Extensible Energy has released new features for DemandEx, its demand charge reduction software that works without energy storage. The most n...

January 15, 2020
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S2A Modular has an exclusive graphene solar PV technology to...

S2A Modular – creator of an electrically self-sustaining smart-connected luxury residence, the #GreenLuxHome (which we profiled in our...

January 15, 2020
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PV backsheet market set to grow at 6 percent annually...

The global solar PV backsheet market is expected to grow substantially at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6 percent between 2019 to ...

January 15, 2020
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JLC Infrastructure acquires Greenskies Renewable Energy with plans to rebrand...

JLC Infrastructure (JLC) has placed a big investment into Greenskies Renewable Energy, a commercial and industrial solar developer. The...

January 15, 2020