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Ipsun Power Virginia’s Ipsun Solar adds energy storage offering with Tesla certification
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April 4, 2019
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RFP news: Bid for 12 commercial solar projects in Southwest Virginia totaling 2.73 MW
April 2, 2019
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SolarEdge hits 1 million monitored PV systems (doubling its total in two years)
April 2, 2019
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Crossing Wires: Solar installers are connecting new services to spark new sources of business
April 2, 2019
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SEPA poll: Nearly 75 percent of battery providers report regulatory barriers to market
April 1, 2019
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Duke Energy proposes electric vehicle infrastructure investments in North Carolina

Duke Energy is proposing the largest investment in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure ever in the Southeast – a $76 million initiati...

April 1, 2019
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Four ways local solar projects can benefit cities

The article originally appeared on WRI’s Insights blog.  When a city decides to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy...

April 1, 2019
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Soligent opens new Southern California solar product distribution warehouse

Solar product distributor Soligent opened a new, 20,000 square foot warehouse in January 2019 in Fontana, Calif., replacing its previous loc...

April 1, 2019
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Florida Power and Light set to build world’s largest solar-powered...

Florida Power & Light Co. announced plans to build the world’s largest solar-powered battery system, which will have four times th...

April 1, 2019
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Pegasus Solar solar mounting product line added to Sunnova approved...

Sunnova Energy Corporation added Pegasus Solar’s complete product line to its exclusive Approved Vendor List (AVL), noting that Pegasu...

April 1, 2019
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DTE Energy speeds carbon reduction goals by a full decade

  DTE Energy is ramping up its carbon reduction goals in Michigan by a full decade now, with plans to hit an 80 percent reduction by 20...

April 1, 2019
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Dynapower debuts its next-gen utility-scale energy storage inverters

Dynapower just introduced its next generation utility-scale energy storage inverters. The air-cooled CPS-1500 and CPS-3000 are available in ...

April 1, 2019
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QuickBOLT’s Microflashing technology is now a Registered Trademark

  QuickBOLT’s Microflashing is now a Registered Trademark of Quickscrews International Corp. Microflashing is a component of the ...

March 30, 2019
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OMCO Solar makes two key additions to sales, engineering teams

OMCO Solar has announced key additions to its leadership teams to support the continued growth of the Field Fast Fixed tilt solar racking sy...

March 27, 2019
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Navigant Research: Storage PPAs ‘already competitive with LCOE for combined...

A new report from Navigant Research tracking the North American market for utility-scale storage plus renewables adoption and power purchase...

March 27, 2019
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Origis Services will use AlsoEnergy as its solar, storage management...

Origis Services LLC, which launched last week as an operations, maintenance and asset management arm of Origis Energy USA, selected AlsoEner...

March 27, 2019
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Freedom Forever expands its 25-year residential solar production guarantee to...

Fast-growing residential solar energy installer Freedom Forever announced its latest market for expansion: Illinois. Founded in 2011, Freedo...

March 27, 2019
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Sun Day analysis: Despite its recent peak, nuclear power has...

The following commentary was sent our way by the Sun Day campaign. Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the partial core meltdown of react...

March 27, 2019
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Countdown to California 2020 part II: Constructing a new solar...

We wrapped our arms around California’s new Building Energy Efficiency standards in Installment I of the Countdown to 2020. In this in...

March 27, 2019
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Conti Solar selected as EPC for two NJR Clean Energy...

Conti Solar, a national solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), O&M and energy storage development company, announced it ...

March 26, 2019