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August 29, 2019
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News Panasonic
Panasonic to launch a complete solar + storage residential solution at Solar Power International
August 29, 2019
Mounting Guide Kern solar
Kern Solar Structures makes the most corrosion-resistant steel pile in the solar industry, see it and more at SPI
August 29, 2019
Inverters and eBOS APSystems
APsystems reminds you it has the most powerful solar microinverter on the market at SPI
August 29, 2019
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TurningPoint Energy to pursue community solar development in Maine
August 29, 2019
News sunrun logo
Sunrun brings Brightbox solar, battery, virtual power plant services to...

Sunrun Inc. is bringing its Brightbox home solar, battery service and virtual power plant aspirations to customers in Vermont starting this ...

August 28, 2019
News Sapphire Solar Project
Solar trackers will make up one-third of all ground-mounted PV...

Following a record year of shipments for PV tracking systems globally, IHS Markit forecasts more than 150 GWdc of PV tracking systems will b...

August 28, 2019
News colorado community solar
Standard Solar, Pivot Energy are co-developing close to 9 megawatts...

National solar companies Pivot Energy and Standard Solar have expanded their partnership to co-develop five more community solar sites acros...

August 28, 2019
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Utah’s Rocky Mountain Power to manage a virtual power plant...

A partnership between sonnen, the Wasatch Group and Rocky Mountain Power will form a first-of-its-kind Virtual Power Plant (VPP) in the U.S....

August 27, 2019
News Citadel-roofing solar
Citadel Roofing and Solar to start installing LG’s RESU home...

Citadel Roofing & Solar, one of California’s largest and most experienced roofing and solar installers, is going to start installi...

August 27, 2019
News department of housing
HUD opened a path for low-income solar in California (and...

Solar for low-income housing is caught in a Catch-22. Residents in a low-income community would get a huge benefit from the savings and ener...

August 27, 2019
News Revision Dover solar project
Details on ReVision Energy’s largest rooftop solar project yet: Dover...

ReVision Energy has completed the installation of the largest rooftop solar array in company history. The project at the Dover High School a...

August 27, 2019
Mounting Guide solarack
SolaRack has a new standoff waterproofing base for flat-roof solar...

SolaRack, an American solar racking manufacturer, announced the availability of its new standoff waterproofing product SolaSeal. Touted as t...

August 26, 2019
News wattzon
WattzOn introduces SNAP to quickly capture customer utility bill info

WattzOn, a provider of utility bill data solutions, launched a new AI-powered product called SNAP to enable energy and cleantech companies t...

August 26, 2019
Inverters and eBOS Sungrow inverters
BloombergNEF survey shows Sungrow inverters rate at 100 percent bankablility

BloombergNEF has rated Sungrow as 100% bankable among inverter firms in its latest survey. The BloombergNEF bankability survey asked banks, ...

August 26, 2019
Financing Funding
Johnson Controls, Capital Dynamics partner to boost funding for solar...

  Johnson Controls announced a partnership with Capital Dynamics to increase the amount of capital available for customers in North Ame...

August 26, 2019
News EVgo
Big-time EV agreement: Electrify America, EVgo form a roaming partnership

Electrify America and EVgo announced an interoperability agreement that increases access to electric vehicle (EV) charging stations througho...

August 26, 2019
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Three solar projects coming soon as part of Maryland’s community...

  TurningPoint Energy and ForeFront Power are beginning construction of three fully developed Maryland-based community solar projects. ...

August 26, 2019
News Intersolar
Next year’s revived Intersolar North America will have NABCEP continuing...

Reminder that Intersolar North America moved from San Francisco in July to San Diego in February (the San Diego Convention Center from Febru...

August 26, 2019
Inverters and eBOS ginlong solis
Ginlong now ranks third among Chinese inverter exports

According to EnergyTrend, China exported $1.3 billion (USD) in inverters during the first half of 2019, with the country’s top five in...

August 26, 2019