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Chicago solar energy plan Chicago steps up: City buildings to run on 100 percent renewable energy by 2025
Chris Crowell
April 19, 2017
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News Hawaii solar grid supply
Hawaii expands customer grid supply capacity (adding 20 MW)
April 19, 2017
News new york city microgrid
Several ‘firsts’ achieved in this New York City apartment microgrid project
April 19, 2017
News solaria
Solar module tech company Solaria sues for misappropriation of trade secrets
April 19, 2017
News SMA Sunny Central Storage_sm
SMA system selected for pilot storage program at NREL facility
April 19, 2017
News Eos_Energy
Eos Aurora DC Battery System under new, lower pricing model

Eos Energy Storage is moving its Eos Aurora DC Battery System to a forward-pricing model. The company is taking orders today for volume purc...

April 18, 2017
News NEXTracker-2
Report: NEXTracker led PV tracker market share in 2016

NEXTracker, a Flex company, has attained the number one global market share position for the second consecutive year among PV solar tracker ...

April 18, 2017
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This new Silver-on-Aluminum paste could boost PV cell efficiency

PLANT PV, a photovoltaic materials innovator, sent word about a breakthrough that enables solar cell manufacturers to capture greater solar ...

April 18, 2017
News ATI tracker project
ATI’s new vertical mount motor system deployed in Caprock Solar...

Array Technologies, Inc., just completed a 25 MW solar tracking installation at the Caprock Solar Farm in Quay County, N.M. Array worke...

April 18, 2017
News solar politics
SEIA meets with Rick Perry to talk solar innovations, storage...

As competitive as solar energy prices have become, political energy is still the most influential factor for industry growth. There is a lot...

April 17, 2017
News Solar Frontier Americas Completes the Sale of 40 MW Midway II Solar Project to Dominion Energy_02MR
40-MW Solar Frontier plant sold to Dominion Resources

  Solar Frontier Americas has sold its 40 megawatts (DC) Midway II solar power plant to a subsidiary of Dominion Energy Inc., a wh...

April 17, 2017
News Yaskawa - Solectria Solar
Yaskawa-Solectria Solar inverters now fully compatible with Tigo optimizers

Yaskawa – Solectria Solar announced full compatibility of its three-phase string inverters with Tigo’s module optimizers, fully ...

April 17, 2017
News solar funding
Solar industry funding report for Q1 2017: Was there a...

The question on the collective renewable energy industry’s mind since last November has been, “How will the election of Donald T...

April 17, 2017
News ADARA POWER
Details on new residential solar+storage system from Adara Power

Adara Power is launching its second-generation energy storage system, the Adara Pulse, an intelligent residential energy storage soluti...

April 17, 2017
News kaco
KACO improves its sales outlook for 2017

KACO new energy Group, based in Neckarsulm, Germany, has managed to chalk up orders totaling 600 megawatts in the first quarter of 2017. The...

April 13, 2017
News vermont solar power
Vermont lays out plan for 20 percent solar generation in-state...

Vermont wants to show other states how it is done when it comes to becoming an advanced solar economy — one in which solar power provi...

April 12, 2017
News Big Bend solar plant
106-acre Big Bend Solar project completed in Tampa

Burns & McDonnell met substantial completion requirements on March 1 for commercial operation of the Big Bend Solar project in Tampa, Fl...

April 12, 2017
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This new online platform to connect solar jobs with interested...

Job growth in the solar industry has been one of its big headlines, naturally side by side the growth in solar capacity. To better match qua...

April 11, 2017
News nevada solar net metering
Nevada lawmakers looking to restore net metering, speed renewables adoption

The Associated Press is reporting that Nevada lawmakers may have come to their senses and are putting a package of bills on the table to res...

April 11, 2017
News SolarWorld
SolarWorld speaks out on Chinese trade impact on U.S. solar...

SolarWorld is one of the country’s largest crystalline-silicon solar manufacturers, and it has concerns about the influence of China&r...

April 10, 2017