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lightstar agriculture agrivoltaics CalCom Energy to fund $100 million in solar + storage projects in California farming communities
Chris Crowell
September 30, 2019
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Projects connecticut solar
Ameresco, Clean Energy Collective complete Connecticut’s first community solar project
September 30, 2019
News Caterpillar - Tucson Proving Ground - Entrance
Caterpillar makes a splash at SPI 2019 with its Hybrid Energy Solutions
September 30, 2019
Solar Trackers Sunfolding t29
Sunfolding’s latest T29 solar tracker updates will simplify material transportation
September 30, 2019
+ Storage 1-to-3-Microgrid-for-EV-Charging-Stations
This Microgrid Power Source can deliver three-phase EV charging in remote areas using single-phase infrastructure
September 30, 2019
News SenseHawk applications
SenseHawk adds applications to handle solar plant design, construction and...

AI-powered solar software provider SenseHawk announced three new applications to SenseHawk Core, its cloud-based platform for solar, at...

September 30, 2019
News Countdown to 2020 installment V
Countdown to California 2020, Part V: Can the solar sector...

With solar power coming to every new home, the solar sector and grid planners in California try to meet in the middle. The Countdown to 2020...

September 26, 2019
News hurricane-sandy-radar-1
Investment protection: PVEL, Heliolytics launch natural disaster response service for...

Two industry-leading providers of field testing for solar power plants, Heliolytics and PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), have launched a new Incide...

September 24, 2019
News SEIA SPI 2019 abby hopper
SEIA kicks off Solar Power International with an ITC rallying...

Solar Power International started like all solar conferences do with the obligatory look back at how far things have come, which always feel...

September 24, 2019
News SolarEdge
SolarEdge SPI updates: A slick 120-kW inverter design, an upgrade...

SolarEdge Technologies is extending its commercial offering to improve the scalability of DC optimization in large PV installations. The com...

September 23, 2019
News coronal energy
Coronal Energy chooses QOS Energy to aggregate its solar asset...

Coronal Energy, a leading North American IPP specialized in solar PV, has selected QOS Energy, an innovative independent software vendor spe...

September 23, 2019
+ Storage nikola power
Nikola Power launches energy storage project suite aimed at both...

Nikola Power is launching a suite of software tools at Solar Power International 2019 that will help project developers take energy sto...

September 23, 2019
News NeON R ACE
LG has a new AC solar module with a 25-year...

LG Electronics is debuting its high-performance, fully integrated AC solar panel with a micro-inverter, expanding the company’s portfo...

September 23, 2019
News solar builder project Voting.
Vote for the 2019 Solar Builder Projects of the Year

We asked for you to send us your coolest, most innovative and noteworthy solar projects of the last 12 months and, boy, did all of you deliv...

September 23, 2019
News climate change
Is climate change a public health crisis? This study links...

Climate change is taking a huge toll on all aspects of life, including Americans’ health — so much so that it could constitute a...

September 22, 2019
+ Storage Q CELLS
Q CELLS has a ‘gapless’ solar module and new energy...

Booth 1419 Q CELLS, one of the largest solar cell and module manufacturers in the world, will reveal prototypes of its first ever gapless so...

September 19, 2019
News Solar Frontier Americas continues to develop build and acquire large scale solar projects
Solar Frontier Americas adds another 50-MW solar project to its...

Solar Frontier Americas, the US-based renewable energy business of Idemitsu Kosan Company, has further expanded its power generation portfol...

September 18, 2019
+ Storage SunPower storage
SunPower debuts its new energy storage platform for homeowners

SunPower announced the next major advancement in the company’s Equinox energy platform — Equinox Storage — which will let ...

September 18, 2019
News Solar FlexRacks TDP Solar Trackers installed in Georgia Solar Projects_Part of REDI Program-001
Solar FlexRack is booming, will close over half a gigawatt...

Don’t look now but Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in photovoltaic mounting and solar tr...

September 17, 2019
Projects Nexamp community solar
Nexamp makes its move into energy storage with these six...

Responding to the increasing demand and need for state-of-the-art Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Nexamp is deploying its first energ...

September 17, 2019