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Global Data solar inverters Worldwide solar inverter market to decline $6.3 billion by 2022 (but Americas to expand)
Chris Crowell
April 25, 2018
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News Top 10 solar utilities
These utilities are adding the most solar, storage to the grid
April 25, 2018
News Schletter
U.S.-based Schletter subsidiary files for bankruptcy after premature product launch
April 25, 2018
News LONGi solar
LONGi increases world record efficiency of its 120-cell half-cut mono PERC module
April 24, 2018
News Panasonic
Panasonic to donate solar systems, develop local business in Off-grid Solutions Project
April 24, 2018
News solar Massachusetts
Dynamic Energy completes 243-kW solar system for Klear Vu

Klear Vu Corporation, a Massachusetts manufacturer of chair pads and rocker sets, recently invested in a 243-kW solar system that will suppl...

April 23, 2018
News solar low income incentives
Solar wealth gap: New reports show size of low-income solar...

Something that’s not talked about enough: one of the largest barriers to solar adoption and a game-changing move into a distributed ge...

April 23, 2018
News Solaria uses a direct contact between cells
New AC module now available via Solaria, Enphase

Enphase Energy and Solaria Corp. are teaming up to introduce an Enphase Energized AC Module, the Solaria PowerXT-AC. The Solaria PowerXT-AC ...

April 23, 2018
News Paradise Village Retirement solar
Creative financing completes 530-kW solar + storage install at San...

Generations LLC added an expansive 527.8 kW photovoltaic (PV) solar + storage system on its resort style independent, assisted living and me...

April 23, 2018
News solar tariff bill
Bill to undo Trump Tariffs introduced in Congress

A last ditch efforts to undo the #TrumpTariffs has been introduced by Congresswoman Jacky Rosen. The Protecting American Solar Jobs Act (H.R...

April 23, 2018
News Sunrun logo
Florida votes to allow Sunrun solar system leases

Florida regulators unanimously voted to grant Sunrun’s Petition for Declaratory Statement regarding its solar lease product proposal. ...

April 23, 2018
News solar cell
Can we get more power out of a solar cell?...

Physicists at the University of Warwick published new research in the Journal Science that could literally squeeze more power out of solar c...

April 19, 2018
News sunpower logo
SunPower buys SolarWorld Americas to ramp up P-Series panel production

In the latest episode of As the Solar Industry Turns, SunPower is acquiring 100 percent of SolarWorld Americas. You may recall SolarWorld Am...

April 19, 2018
News Meteocontrol
Meteocontrol, viasys are collaborating on solar site monitoring solution for...

Meteocontrol North America, a subsidiary of meteocontrol GmbH in Germany, and viasys Intelligent Video GmbH are collaborating is to offer PV...

April 19, 2018
News Massachusetts community solar
Massachusetts’ first community solar plus storage project now operational

Origis Energy USA and Sterling Municipal Light Department (SMLD) serving the Town of Sterling, Mass., completed the Sterling Community ...

April 19, 2018
News WGL solar project
Details on 11 MW solar portfolio now live throughout Washington...

WGL Energy Systems, a WGL company, joined Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and project partners today to commemorate the completion of a...

April 19, 2018
Projects Hawaii Navy solar project
Hawaiian Electric Company, U.S. Navy break ground on solar farm...

REC Solar and Hawaiian Electric Co. broke ground on a 20-megawatt (MW), fixed-tilt solar facility, located at the U.S. Navy’s Joint Ba...

April 19, 2018
News Wunder Capital
Wunder Capital to further scale solar lending platform after raising...

Wunder Capital, a financial technology company that provides financing solutions to commercial-scale solar energy projects across the United...

April 19, 2018
News GTM Research global solar market
GTM: Global solar installations to top 100 GW in 2018...

The global solar PV market will add over 100 gigawatts of capacity for the first time in 2018. According to the latest Global Solar Demand M...

April 16, 2018
News perovskite solar cell
NREL update: The puzzle of scaling perovskite solar cells (and...

As perovskite solar cells set efficiency records and the nascent technology becomes more stable, another major challenge remains: the issue ...

April 16, 2018