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PERC Up: Boviet Solar tells us how it will provide high efficiency modules at a low cost
Chris Crowell
November 21, 2016
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News First Solar logo
First Solar jumping to Series 6 module production, layoffs forthcoming
November 21, 2016
News solar+storage microgrid
Top Solar Projects of the Week (Nov. 14 – Nov. 18)
November 18, 2016
News solar+storage microgrid
Check out this solar+storage microgrid housed in a shipping container
November 18, 2016
News Geostellar solar power software
Geostellar partners with a national Baptist church to ramp up community solar sales
November 18, 2016
News Solar FlexRack tracker
Solar FlexRack completes Black & Veatch bankability study of its...

Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in photovoltaic mounting and tracking solutions, announced tod...

November 17, 2016
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Mosaic adds Boviet Solar USA to approved solar vendor list

  Mosaic, one of the nation’s top residential solar lending companies, is adding Boviet Solar USA, the North American arm of Bovi...

November 17, 2016
News resi solar loans and financing
Soligent solar contractors can now access PACE financing through Ygrene

Ygrene Energy Fund, Inc., a provider of residential, multifamily and commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, and so...

November 17, 2016
News NREL thin film module
PV breakthrough: Thin-film solar cells can now be mapped in...

Next-generation solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they’re relatively inexpensive an...

November 17, 2016
+ Storage Ice Cub
Meet Ice Cub: a nifty new home energy storage device...

Ice Energy, a leading provider of distributed thermal energy storage solutions, has launched the Ice Cub – a reimagined way to cool an...

November 17, 2016
News SEIA
SEIA explores expanding C&I solar sector with new committee, report

The Commercial and Industrial (C&I) sector represents an extraordinary opportunity to deploy solar energy, but has experienced relativel...

November 16, 2016
News sunpower
Stellar Solar joins SunPower Master Dealer network

Stellar Solar has been selected to join the SunPower Master Dealer network, a strategic partnership program designed to deliver global ...

November 16, 2016
Mounting Guide GameChange solar rivet mounting
GameChange Solar explains virtues of its rivet module-mounting method

GameChange Solar says that its new rivet module-mounting method has proven to speed its most recent installations. Rivets were used for...

November 16, 2016
News Oregon solar installers shade analysis
Energy Trust of Oregon approves new shade analysis tools to...

Solar prices have dropped dramatically in recent years, and now Energy Trust of Oregon is helping to lower them further. In the past, E...

November 16, 2016
News KACO blue planet inverter 86
Details on three new inverter models from KACO

The German inverter manufacturer, KACO new energy GmbH, has made new three-phase devices available. The blueplanet 8.6 TL3 and 10.0 TL3 are ...

November 16, 2016
News mosaic solar cells
MetaShield boasts 1.2 percent efficiency boost for triple junction solar...

MetaShield LLC, a company focused on advanced glass-based coating technology, announced an independent research study indicating its proprie...

November 16, 2016
News Totem solar platform
Meet Totem: A platform that combines distributed generation, comm and...

Hold on to your socks — Totem thinks it has reimagined and redesigned the smart utility with its new platform. “Totem believes d...

November 15, 2016
News Idaho community solar
How a community (solar) comes together: Details on Idaho’s first...

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is approving an Idaho Power application to build a 500-kilowatt community solar project in southeast B...

November 15, 2016
News EnergySage
EnergySage beefs up financing options in its system with BlueWave,...

As solar equipment and installation costs continue to fall, system ownership has become more accessible thanks to increasingly attractive so...

November 15, 2016
News SEIA
SEIA releases Diversity Best Practices Guide for solar industry

With solar on track to become the most diverse energy source in America, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has released a Diver...

November 15, 2016