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June 14, 2018
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News soligent
Soligent partners with Chilicon Power for grid-support inverter, monitoring solutions
June 13, 2018
News solar inverter supply chain
Solar project logistics: Calculating the value of an efficient supply chain
June 13, 2018
Projects Brantley Solar Project Installed with High Quality Solar FlexRack Utilitiy-Scale Racking_2018 copy
Solar FlexRack supplies G3-X fixed tilt system for 71-MW project in North Carolina
June 12, 2018
News Vivint solar
Vivint Solar closes on $811 million in new financing (largest securitization of residential PPAs ever)
June 12, 2018
News CECEP-Solar-drainage-module
This ‘drainage’ solar module is designed to avoid dust accumulation

Small scale and scattered geological locations of distributed PV power stations make operation and maintenance tasks difficult. CECEP Solar ...

June 12, 2018
News U.S. solar electric capacity
Solar was more than half of all U.S. electricity capacity...

Showing resiliency in spite of the new tariffs on imported modules, the U.S. solar market added 2.5 gigawatts of solar PV in the first quart...

June 12, 2018
News silfab solar modules
PetersenDean Roofing and Solar signs solar panel supply contract with...

Silfab Solar signed a supply contract to deliver high-efficiency panels to PetersenDean Roofing & Solar, the United States’ larges...

June 11, 2018
Mounting Guide TopTile sunmodo
This solar mounting system from SunModo anchors entirely above roof...

Professional solar installers no longer need to grimace when considering a risk-laden solar PV installation on tile roofs. Referenced in our...

June 11, 2018
News Panasonic
San Diego’s Semper Solaris the latest solar installer to join...

Panasonic continues to build out its Premium Installer network with some of the industry’s top solar companies. San Diego-based Semper...

June 11, 2018
PV Modules jinkosolar
News on JinkoSolar’s deal with sPower, debut of ‘Cheetah’ Series...

JinkoSolar is both expanding its reach within the U.S. and ready to debut the most powerful commercially available modules on the market. Le...

June 11, 2018
News CPS string inverter design
Utility-scale solar string design webinar: Distributed vs. centralized strategies

When designing a large site one consideration is string or central inverters? Both have well defined benefits. Historically, the large utili...

June 11, 2018
News CleanCapital
CleanCapital with yet another 10+ MW solar portfolio acquisition

CleanCapital announced a second solar acquisition from G&S Solar, a New York-based developer that builds, develops and operates solar sy...

June 11, 2018
News new belgium brewing solar
New Belgium Brewing donates $100,000 to GRID Alternatives

New Belgium Brewing is donating $100,000 to GRID Alternatives to support its mission to make solar technology accessible to low-income commu...

June 11, 2018
News QRail Quick Mount
Florida’s 3D Solar installs first Quick Mount QRail Racking System

3D Solar, a Florida-based solar contractor, and Quick Mount PV, a manufacturer of waterproof mounting and racking systems, announced today t...

June 11, 2018
News Omnidian solar monitoring
Omnidian adds even more solar industry veterans to build out...

To respond to shifting customer expectations – both from asset owners and individual homeowners – Omnidian has hired solar opera...

June 8, 2018
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Sunrun provides details on its Florida solar leasing plan —...

Sunrun Inc. made the push to change Florida’s rules concerning solar leases and is now officially ready to offer solar-as-a-service an...

June 8, 2018
30 Day Campaign to Attack the Solar Tariff CPS Wirebox Installed before Inverter Body
How to maximize large-scale PV site value with string design

Service models and technology at the string inverter level are vastly improved from where they were a few years ago. Earlier this week we lo...

June 8, 2018
News Sky Management rooftop solar
Sky Management Services to add 2-MW rooftop solar system on...

Sky Management Services LLC purchased 100 Sanrico Drive in Manchester, Conn. — a 190,000-sq-ft single tenant industrial/distribution f...

June 7, 2018
News Inovateus Solar
City in Kansas developing 6-MW solar farm with Inovateus Solar

Inovateus Solar, Kenyon Energy and the City of Pratt, Kansas, announced the development of 6-MW solar farm project located on the North East...

June 7, 2018