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Vivint solar Vivint Solar expands residential solar services into Delaware
Chris Crowell
November 6, 2017
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News solar ITC remedies
Solar trade case update: Overview of ITC remedies and reactions from solar executives
November 6, 2017
News South Carolina energy community solar
Construction starts in 16-MW South Carolina community solar program
November 2, 2017
News Hannah Solar Government Services
Hannah Solar Gov. Services to construct solar array for Drug Enforcement Administration
November 2, 2017
News china solar
Princeton study: China’s air pollution cuts into solar energy production
November 1, 2017
News Advanced Cable Ties NYLON 12
Advanced Cable Ties debuts new Nylon 12 tie for solar...

Advanced Cable Ties, Inc. announces another significant new product introduction, NYLON 12 Cable Ties, molecularly designed to withstand the...

November 1, 2017
News solar cell research
LONGi Green Energy mono PERC solar cell hits 22.71 percent...

The Fraunhofer ISE CalLab of Germany certified the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 22.71 percent of LONGi Green Energy Techn...

October 31, 2017
News Linea Energy solar financing
Three takeaways from SEIA white paper on financing C&I solar...

The commercial and industrial (C&I) sector remains the biggest opportunity for solar, but also the most frustrating to finance. We looke...

October 30, 2017
Inverters and eBOS omron inverter PID reduction
How OMRON reduces solar module PID potential through its inverter...

Potential induced degradation (PID) of a solar module — you know it, and you hate it. We met with string inverter manufacturer OMRON a...

October 30, 2017
News Mosaic solar financing
Mosaic completes largest solar loan securitization to date

Mosaic, a leading U.S. provider of solar loan financing solutions for homeowners, completed its second term securitization of residential so...

October 30, 2017
News sunpower logo
SunPower gets approval to use drones in regulated air spaces...

SunPower Corp. has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) for automatic access to operate a drone in regulated airspa...

October 30, 2017
News NREL microlink
Details on new multijunction solar cell developed by NREL that’s...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into a license agreement with MicroLink Devices, Inc. (Niles, IL) to commerciali...

October 30, 2017
News Paystand solar payments
Solar contractors ease payment, billing headaches with PayStand

Solar contractors are in a constant battle against soft costs, so every effort at adding efficiency helps. Solar industry installers, d...

October 30, 2017
Financing New York Power Authority-001
New York Power Authority, DOE fund new solar power forecasting...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office has allocated $500,000 in matching funds to step up joint research with...

October 27, 2017
News kingspan energy school solar
Kingspan Energy completes its largest U.S. solar project atop Connecticut...

Kingspan Energy, with financing from the Connecticut Green Bank, has commissioned nearly 1-MW of rooftop solar at Carmen Arace Middle and In...

October 27, 2017
+ Storage Gridential battery
Gridtential energy storage: New CEO, new vision for 48-volt battery...

You may not have heard of Gridtential yet, but you will soon because the company’s new executives have plans for the solar plus storag...

October 26, 2017
News EOS energy storage
New Jersey water treatment plant now prepped with on-site solar-plus-storage...

A 250-kW, 1 MWh Eos Aurora DC battery system was commissioned at the wastewater treatment plant in the Borough of Caldwell, NJ. Th...

October 26, 2017
News Nautilus Solar
Nautilus Solar Energy adds 5.4-MW community solar project to portfolio

Nautilus Solar Energy, a national solar project development, acquisition and asset management company, acquired a 5.4 MW community solar por...

October 26, 2017
News Tabuchi 2
Tabuchi updates EIBS solar-storage system, now UL 9540 certification compliant

At Intersolar, Tabuchi America, announced the launch of its Next Generation Eco-Intelligent Battery System (EIBS). The all-in-one system is ...

October 25, 2017
News Soltec PV plant in Mexico
Soltec shows 200 percent growth in 2017, ranks third globally...

Soltec, a manufacturer and supplier of single-axis solar trackers and related services, has installed its trackers all over the globe for mo...

October 25, 2017