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global solar Wood Mac: The top 10 global PV asset owners have over 22 GW of total solar capacity
Chris Crowell
October 7, 2019
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News Tariff Change
About-facial: Trump administration to end the tariff exemption for imported bifacial solar panels
October 7, 2019
eBOS Tigo RSS 2
Tigo has a new version of its fire safety solution that serves two modules at once
October 2, 2019
Mounting Guide unirac
Unirac now has a solar installer certification program
October 2, 2019
Projects shovel ready utility scale solar
Details on a portfolio of five huge solar plants (1.7 GW total) coming to California, Texas via Intersect Power, Signal Energy
October 2, 2019
News battery and earth illustration
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
News standard-solar-enews
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
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