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SunTurf Roof Mount SunModo’s SunTurf designed to overcome both rooftop and ground mount solar challenges
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November 18, 2019
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News Target solar install
Target celebrates reaching 500 solar installations
November 18, 2019
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SunDAT solar site modeling tool now includes solar project cost estimation, financial projections
November 18, 2019
News reject proposal
Bullet dodged or delayed? California’s new home solar mandate still on track after CEC passes on SMUD proposal
November 18, 2019
News long island
Solar advocates call for LIPA to reverse decision that will end community solar on Long Island
November 18, 2019
News Resilience
SolarOne details new resiliency-focused New York solar projects

Whether triggered by unprecedented storms, heatwaves or wildfires, blackouts are becoming increasingly common and hazardous. New Yorkers who...

November 18, 2019
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SunPower offers 22 million shares in public stock offering

SunPower Corporation is offering to sell, subject to market and other conditions, 22 million shares of its common stock through an underwrit...

November 18, 2019
Financing recurrent energy
NextEnergy Capital acquires 99 percent of a Recurrent Energy solar...

Canadian Solar Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Recurrent Energy closed a sale of 99 percent of its Class B membership interest in ...

November 18, 2019
News CAB Solar
CAB Solar earns ninth patent for its solar wire management...

CAB Solar was awarded a second U.S. Patent for its Solar Cable Management System with Integrated Grounding. CAB’s newest patent is the...

November 15, 2019
News Ben Lee Solar Panel Image
BENLEE adds rooftop solar system to Michigan headquarters via POWERHOME...

BENLEE, a leading roll-off trailer and lugger truck manufacturer in North America, has established new sustainability goals for 2020 and bey...

November 15, 2019
News question marks written reminders tickets
Does SunPower’s exit from PV manufacturing signal a changing trend?

Following the recent announcement that SunPower, one of America’s largest solar-panel makers, is to exit from the manufacturing busine...

November 15, 2019
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LG integrates its storage system with Sunverge to provide grid...

Sunverge, a provider of an industry-leading Distributed Energy Resource (DER) control and aggregation platform, is fully integrating its Sun...

November 13, 2019
+ Storage NeoVolta
California Energy Commission certifies NeoVolta energy storage system and its...

The NeoVolta NV14 has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC) as a certified energy storage system. To achieve the certifica...

November 13, 2019
Inverters and eBOS KACO blueplanet
KACO adds five new solar inverters between 87 and 150...

KACO new energy has added five new C&I string inverters to its 1,500-volt product range with outputs between 87 and 150 kilowatts. All n...

November 13, 2019
News Intersolar
Think your solar install team is the best out there?...

Intersolar North America, the first major solar + energy storage event of 2020, will play host to a cool competition for solar and storage i...

November 13, 2019
News Solaria
Solaria beefs up executive team with new COO, CCO appointments

Solaria Corp., a global provider of solar panels for the premium residential and commercial markets, appointed Bang Nguyen as Chief Operatin...

November 12, 2019
News IRENA latin america solar
IRENA report: Latin America is on the brink of a...

Latin America and the Caribbean could grow their installed solar capacity by a factor of 40 by 2050, according to a new report by the Intern...

November 12, 2019
News mckinstry project
McKinstry finishing up 371-kW solar install for City of Wauwatosa,...

  The City of Wauwatosa, Wisc., partnered with McKinstry to design, install, commission and monitor a 371.3 kilowatt (kW) solar photovo...

November 12, 2019
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SMA boosts grid services focus with EnergyHub partnership (launching first...

SMA America is partnering with EnergyHub (provider of distributed energy resource solutions for utilities) to deliver valuable inverter mana...

November 12, 2019
Featured residential project of the year
2019 Residential Solar Builder Project of the Year: City Cabins...

City Cabins at Abbott’s Alley Sedro-Woolley, Wash. | six 9.9-kW homes Developer: Martha Rose Construction Inc. Solar Contractor: Banne...

November 12, 2019