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Chris Crowell
November 19, 2018
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News mission solar
Department of Energy awards funds to large-scale DNV GL study of bifacial solar module performance
November 19, 2018
PV Modules Canadian Solar BiHiKu
Canadian Solar ships 10 MW of its new bifacial solar modules to Neighborhood Power
November 19, 2018
News freedom solar
Freedom Solar Financial raises $7.5M to launch new commercial solar financing vehicle
November 19, 2018
News EDF Renewables
EDF Renewables, Shell Energy sign 15-year PPA for a Palen Solar project
November 19, 2018
News RPCS cloud county community college
Kansas community college adds solar to curriculum and campus via...

As part of Kansas’ Cloud County Community College’s Solar Energy Technology program, new solar energy courses — spurred by...

November 15, 2018
News SolarEdge
SolarEdge’s EV-charging inverter named Product of the Year in the...

  SolarEdge Technologies, a global leader in smart energy, won the New Product of the Year Award in the Energy Category of the 2018 BIG...

November 15, 2018
News community solar checklist
IREC, Vote Solar develop this new checklist to improve community...

Two national organizations released a new checklist to help regulators and interested stakeholders evaluate and improve voluntary community ...

November 15, 2018
News NREL lightweight CIGS
NREL argues for value of ‘watts per kilogram’ in emerging...

Rigid silicon solar panels dominate the utility and residential markets, but opportunity exists for thin-film photovoltaic and emerging tech...

November 15, 2018
News Forefront power
ForeFront Power develops solar carport, storage system for University of...

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) has partnered with ForeFront Power to develop a 2-MW solar parking canopy structure plus ene...

November 14, 2018
News Colorado solar
Freedom Forever expands its residential solar services (and 25-year power...

Residential solar energy installer Freedom Forever is expanding into Colorado. Currently serving customers in California, Arizona and N...

November 14, 2018
News smart home energy management
Schneider Electric’s Wiser Energy System gives homeowners more insight into...

Schneider Electric announced the second generation of its Wiser Energy System, an integrated monitoring system that gives homeowners more in...

November 14, 2018
News sunfinity
Sunfinity installs 200-kW solar system on Texas-based infrastructure development company...

LBJ Infrastructure Group and NTE Mobility Partners have created some of the most sophisticated traffic tollways in the United States, includ...

November 14, 2018
News solar helps
Puerto Rico rebuild: Solar, efficiency projects underway at San Juan’s...

Solar installation and energy efficiency upgrades at the Plaza del Mercado de Río Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico, are underway, acc...

November 14, 2018
Financing AEP
American Electric Power (AEP) to add 8.3 GW of renewable...

Ohio-based American Electric Power says it plans to invest $33 billion in capital from 2019 through 2023, with $2.7 billion of that focused ...

November 14, 2018
News modern multifamily building
Meet Project Sunlight: A new model aimed at scaling multifamily...

The International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology (ICAST) was awarded $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar ...

November 14, 2018
Featured Stanford solar professor
Stanford researchers working on rooftop PV array that also cools...

Stanford electrical engineer Shanhui Fan wants to revolutionize energy-producing rooftop arrays. “We’ve built the first device t...

November 13, 2018
Financing CleanCapital
CleanCapital forms partnership with BlackRock to drive new clean energy...

CleanCapital announced a new partnership with BlackRock’s global renewable power platform with the closing of a 46.9 MW portfolio of s...

November 12, 2018
News russelectric distributed energy controller
Russelectric debuts new energy controller for distributed generation systems

Russelectric, a manufacturer of automatic transfer switches and power control systems and solutions, released a new Russelectric Distributed...

November 12, 2018
PV Modules Cat Hybrid Energy Solutions - Shingled Cell Solar Panels
Caterpillar to start selling Cat-branded SunPower solar panels through its...

SunPower is now providing high-efficiency SunPower Performance Series (P-Series) solar panels under the Caterpillar brand. Offered as part o...

November 12, 2018