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Chris Crowell
September 12, 2018
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Financing Nautilus Solar
Nautilus Solar, ReneSola building a 13-MW community solar portfolio in Minnesota
September 11, 2018
News sonnen home automation
Sonnen to offer complete home automation, solar + storage system
September 11, 2018
News mission solar logo
Texas-based Mission Solar wants to install more of its PV modules in Texas via TriSMART Solar
September 11, 2018
News GP JOULE 2.7MW Project in Lake Waconia, MN
GP JOULE reports triple digit revenue growth after entering U.S. solar market
September 11, 2018
News sunflare solar shingle on house
Sunflare thin-film residential roof shingles to debut at Solar Power...

Will the best solar shingle solution please stand up. Sunflare is rising from its chair at the 2018 Solar Power International (booth #2482) ...

September 11, 2018
News solar blockchain
Clean Energy Blockchain Network tests out trading platform in solar...

Optimizing clean energy for both carbon reductions and reduced electricity costs with a peer-to-peer clean energy and credit trading platfor...

September 10, 2018
News Oakwood community solar
Sunrise Solar proposes ‘pollinator-friendly’ habitat as part of new community...

New York-based Sunrise Solar Solutions president and CEO Doug Hertz is proposing a 3,600-panel community solar farm at the rear of Oakwood C...

September 10, 2018
News solar company acquisition
Centrica acquires solar EPC Vista Solar to grow its commercial...

Centrica plc has acquired Vista Solar, a leading California solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company serving commercial...

September 10, 2018
News solar Project of the Year voting
Vote for the 2018 Solar Builder Project of the Year

After sifting through a ton of entries to our Project of the Year awards, we narrowed the field to 16 candidates that stood out for a variet...

September 10, 2018
Inverters and eBOS cyboenergy-dualoutputcyboInverter-hr
Details on CyboEnergy’s new line of AC-assisted off-grid inverters

CyboEnergy a developed a family of AC-assisted off-grid CyboInverters that can run almost any kind of AC loads including air-conditioners, r...

September 6, 2018
+ Storage pika solar storage
Behind-the-meter energy storage is here and two other takeaways from...

Behind-the-meter energy storage in the U.S. has some legit momentum right now, judging by the Q2 2018 Energy Storage Monitor put out by GTM ...

September 5, 2018
News RST CleanTech
RST Cleantech to debut its automated solar panel cleaning system...

Dirty solar panels lose efficiency, produce significantly less energy and therefore cause the owner to lose money, especially in areas where...

September 5, 2018
News APS Arizona utility
Arizona utility launches program to install solar on customer houses...

Arizona utility APS has launched a new program, APS Solar Communities, to make renewable energy more accessible. Designed specifically for l...

September 5, 2018
News new york solar projects
New York adds $15 million to clean energy workforce funding...

It can’t be said enough: the solar industry and the clean energy economy means jobs. For a state like New York that has big forward-th...

September 5, 2018
News Delaware PACE bill
C-PACE financing for solar, efficiency projects now approved in Delaware

Delaware Governor John Carney signed Senate Bill 113 into law on Wednesday, enabling Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) fina...

September 5, 2018
News Conti Solar Southern Sky Renewable
Conti Solar named EPC for large Rhode Island solar project...

Conti Solar, a national solar EPC, O&M and energy storage company was selected to provide full turnkey EPC services for Southern Sky Ren...

September 4, 2018
News Wells Fargo tribal solar funding
Wells Fargo commits $5 million to GRID Alternatives’ Tribal Solar...

Wells Fargo is committing $5 million over three years to support solar projects in tribal communities across the U.S. The donation to nonpro...

August 31, 2018
Products solaria
Sunlight Financial adds Solaria PowerXT modules to vendor list

Sunlight Financial, a national platform for residential solar and energy storage lending, have added Solaria’s PowerXT modules to the ...

August 31, 2018
News Ascent Solar Technologies
Ascent Solar Technologies nets DOE funding for thin-film, CIGS solar...

Thin-film photovoltaic (PV) manufacturer Ascent Solar Technologies has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for two exclusiv...

August 31, 2018