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Chris Crowell
August 8, 2018
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News Soltec's bifacial single axis trackers
IHS Markit: 9 key stats from PV Structural Balance of System Report for North America
August 6, 2018
News Advanced Energy Economy
Five ways to modernize the U.S. electric power grid via Advanced Energy Economy
August 6, 2018
Financing Greater Hudson Bank OnForce Solar USDA Town of Monroe (1)
Greater Hudson Bank finances 2-MW landfill solar project in Monroe, N.Y.
August 2, 2018
News certainteed
CertainTeed, Solar Energy International partner on solar installer training
August 2, 2018
News SEIA
Leading U.S. roofing contractor joins SEIA board of directors

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade association for the U.S. solar energy industry, announced that PetersenDe...

August 2, 2018
News Florida solar power
FPL Energy update: Four new solar plants coming online, battery-storage...

Florida Power & Light Company started construction on four new solar power plants this week, adding to the 14 major solar power plants i...

August 2, 2018
News Scarlet-Solar-TiltPort
This new carport design from Scarlet Solar tilts to boost...

Scarlet Solar released the TiltPort S range — a carport with a tilting roof that the company claims is capable of generating up to 44 ...

August 2, 2018
News Imagine Solar
Mission Solar teams with ImagineSolar on new solar training initiative

Mission Solar Energy, a U.S. supplier of high-power solar modules, announced a new training collaboration with ImagineSolar, a solar trainin...

August 2, 2018
News sundat web solar design
SunDAT Web Service is a cloud-based PV design software for...

In the hyper-competitive PV industry, extracting every cent of value from a project is crucial. The SunDAT Web Service combines the power of...

August 1, 2018
News CAB With String Inverter 3 edited
CAB Solar’s Integrated Grounding Cable Management System now UL 2703...

CAB Solar‘s new Integrated Grounding System has achieved ETL Safety Listing by Intertek to UL2703. CAB Solar’s Integrated Ground...

August 1, 2018
Policy massachusetts solar storage goals
Massachusetts bill passes to stop Eversource demand charge but doesn’t...

Massachusetts lawmakers passed An Act to Advance Clean Energy yesterday that will pretty much do what it says, with one really important vic...

August 1, 2018
News McCarthy solar EPC
North Carolina’s Sunfarm V and VI solar projects find their...

McCarthy Building Companies’ Renewable Energy Team was named the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor on the Sun...

July 31, 2018
News forefront power
Fresno school district breaks ground on 8.2-MW solar canopy project...

ForeFront Power and Fresno Unified School District broke ground on 8.2-MW of solar parking canopy systems across eight District facilities. ...

July 30, 2018
Projects Coast Citrus Union City
Fruit wholesaler adds a third PV system to one of...

Coast Citrus Distributors, a wholesaler of fruits and vegetables in the United States and Mexico since 1950, completed the latest solar syst...

July 30, 2018
News Duke Energy solar rebate
Duke Energy is seeing strong demand for its solar rebate...

Duke Energy’s North Carolina solar rebate program has attracted significant interest from customers, with more than 1,500 applying for...

July 30, 2018
Products APA racking geoballast ground mount
APA Solar Racking explains its concrete-free ballast ground-mount system

APA Solar Racking has changed the ground-mount ballast market by offering a concrete-free design. Featured at Intersolar this year, APA...

July 30, 2018
News alsoenergy
AlsoEnergy merges with skytron, will now manage more than 18...

AlsoEnergy is making big moves. First came word of its Draker acquisition, and now it is merging with skytron energy, one of Europe’s ...

July 26, 2018
News Duke Energy shared solar south carolina
Duke Energy launches Shared Solar Program option for residents in...

Duke Energy Progress is launching an affordable Shared Solar Program option for customers in South Carolina. Available to all qualified Duke...

July 25, 2018
News SEPA solar capacity added
SEPA argues ‘the U.S. solar market did not contract last...

Taking longer-term trends into account, a new report from the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) argues that — a drop in megawatts n...

July 25, 2018