News

Solar industry news: Mounting, inverter, PV module, tracker and energy storage trends; net metering regulation; financing, buying trends and more.

Chemitek Startup with new products to clean, maintain solar PV panels closes latest investment round
Chris Crowell
July 24, 2019
Read Article
Financing solarpoint
SinglePoint’s Direct Solar brokerage signs $3.5 million in solar install contracts in two months
July 24, 2019
News The Largest Solar Project in Michigan_Installed with Solar FlexRack
Swinerton Renewable Energy, Solar FlexRack building a 26-MW solar plant in Connecticut
July 23, 2019
News new york climate leadership
Empire Statement: New York mandates 100 percent renewable energy by 2040
July 22, 2019
Financing Keybank
KeyBank partners with Dividend Finance on new residential solar financing program
July 22, 2019
News Solar Operations Solutions facility
Solar Operations Solutions discusses utility-scale solar innovation, like this new...

According to Wood Mackenzie’s Solar Market Insight Report (Q2 2019), there were 1.6 gigawatts of utility-scale solar installed in Q1 2...

July 22, 2019
News MiaSole-FLEX-W
NREL confirms 20.56 percent solar cell efficiency for a flexible...

MiaSolé, the leading manufacturer of lightweight, flexible, thin-film photovoltaic solar panels announced that the U.S. Department of...

July 22, 2019
News portland general electric
Portland General Electric proposes mix of renewables, energy efficiency, demand...

Portland General Electric Co. (PGE) presented a new integrated resource plan to the Oregon Public Utility Commission that focuses on adding ...

July 22, 2019
Financing SOLTAGE- Logo
Soltage and Basalt ready to fund 200 megawatts of solar...

Independent power producer Soltage LLC is launching Helios Power, a new funding vehicle in partnership with infrastructure equity inves...

July 18, 2019
Financing CleanCapital
CleanCapital adds a 15 project solar portfolio in New Jersey...

CleanCapital just announced its largest acquisition to date, a 75.2 MW solar portfolio made up of 15 operating solar projects in New Jersey....

July 18, 2019
News Hanwha_Q_CELLS
Q CELLS is launching an all-black half-cell solar module with...

Q CELLS is launching a new, all-black iteration of its popular solar module, the Q.PEAK DUO BLK-G6+, into the U.S. market in September ...

July 18, 2019
News Linea Energy solar financing
GE Solar sells majority stake in new distributed solar +...

GE Solar and BlackRock rocked the renewable energy sector with the formation of a new business, Distributed Solar Development, a GE Renewabl...

July 18, 2019
Mounting Guide small-scale ground-mount PV systems
PV Pointer: Considerations for super small-scale ground-mount PV systems

When does a ground-mount system work best? Many times, a roof mount is the only option due to space constraints, but when a bit of open land...

July 18, 2019
News Growth chart going up. increase value investment. Business people agreement standing handshake wearing suite formal. Concept vector
Mercom: Solar corporate funding up 12 percent in 2019

Corporate funding increased in Q2 2019 with $3.3 billion in 29 deals compared to the $2.7 billion in 35 deals in Q1 2019, according to Merco...

July 16, 2019
News cypress creek renewables
Cypress Creek Renewables ends its internal EPC business with eye...

Cypress Creek Renewables is shifting to a third-party model for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), as part of its new Go-Forwa...

July 16, 2019
News solar business acquisition
National Grid Ventures officially acquires Geronimo Energy

  National Grid, through its competitive non-regulated unit National Grid Ventures (NGV), completed its $100 million acquisition of Ger...

July 16, 2019
News Ameresco
Indiana school district to build two solar arrays to power...

Indiana’s Hamilton Southeastern Schools is partnering with Ameresco, Inc. to bring renewable energy to the school district in the form...

July 16, 2019
News solar sunshot funding
Here are the 19 semifinalists in New York’s 76West Clean...

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced the 19 semifinalists for the 76West Clean Energy Competitio...

July 16, 2019
News miasole thin film pv
Hanergy’s MiaSolé sets new world record for large area flexible...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, a German based solar energy testing laboratory and one of the world’s leading renew...

July 16, 2019
News ACORE
ACORE urges Ohio Legislature to support pro-renewable, pro-consumer policies

With the legislative session in Ohio scheduled to end on Wednesday, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) is respectfully urging ...

July 16, 2019