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Fronius Fronius initiates industry standard for NEC 2017 Rapid Shutdown
Chris Crowell
August 11, 2016
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News oil company solar battery
Report: Oil companies should get into energy storage, distributed generation
August 11, 2016
News Solar City
The next big product push from SolarCity? Solar roofs
August 11, 2016
News sunpower
SunPower CEO on layoffs in power plant segment, focus shift to distributed generation
August 10, 2016
Residential Solar oneroof enery
OneRoof Energy refinances interest in 12-MW residential solar portfolio
August 10, 2016
News Sunpreme bifacial modules
Calif.-based installer Option One joins Sunpreme Channel network

California-based solar installer Option One has joined Sunpreme Channel network — a strategic partnership program designed to deliver ...

August 9, 2016
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You down with CIP? How cast-in-place foundations add flexibility to...

Flexibility is maybe not the first word that comes to mind when thinking about concrete blocks, but when planning your next ballast solar pr...

August 8, 2016
News Vivint solar
Vivint Solar closes $313 million term loan facility

Vivint Solar closed a $313 million term loan facility, which refinanced 11 tax equity funds that were part of the company’s aggregatio...

August 8, 2016
Financing BlueWave capital loan
BlueWave makes solar loan product available in the Carolinas (and...

As the solar market in the Southeastern U.S. booms, BlueWave, a Boston-based Community Solar development and fintech company, has brought it...

August 8, 2016
News nevada solar vote
Nevada Supreme Court decides against voting referendum to restore net...

Nevada decides yet again to remove power from the people. The state Supreme Court has decided against a referendum for the upcoming election...

August 5, 2016
News Solarize athens georgia
Georgia’s Solarize Athens campaign triples area’s residential solar installs

June 30 marked the last day for Solarize Athens, and after tabulating the results the coalition in charge of Solarize Athens, made up of Env...

August 5, 2016
News Mosaic solar financing
Solar loan provider Mosaic keeps growing: $220M equity financing round...

Mosaic, one of the leading providers of affordable solar financing solutions for homeowners, just secured an equity financing of u...

August 5, 2016
News michael david winery solar
Details on solar project underway at Michael David Winery

The Michael David Winery completed phase 1 of its solar install at its Highway 12 and Bare Ranch locations in Lodi, Calif. Having pride...

August 4, 2016
News sunlink iowa community solar
$80,000 grant awarded to expand community solar program in New...

The Energy Clinic at the Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE) at Vermont Law School announced an $80,000 grant from The John Merck...

August 4, 2016
News First Solar logo
First Solar books big utility-scale community solar deployment

Utility-scale solar powerhouse First Solar says it has sales bookings of 121 MW DC of advanced technology thin film modules that&n...

August 4, 2016
News jinko solar miami science barge
New floating marine science barge in Miami powered by PV

A group of renewable energy system suppliers donated their components and expertise to a cool new floating marine lab and environmental educ...

August 4, 2016
News net metering solar
U.S. solar policy update: 42 states take action (24 involving...

Solar is a hot topic around the country as regulators, legislators and utilities all try and figure out the best way to approach this new, d...

August 3, 2016
News top 5 solar trends
Five trends shaping the global solar market in 2016

The global solar market is going through a wild 2016. The first half of this year saw a major spike in demand driven by an unprecedented vol...

August 3, 2016
News Baker Electric golf
Recent projects from Baker Electric: Jewish center, Catholic school, golf...

Baker Electric Solar, a full-service solar company based in San Diego, has sent word on a couple recent commercial projects it has completed...

August 3, 2016
News APsystems
Check out this microinverter install training series from APsystems

APsystems just launched a video series aimed at registered, professional solar installers (hey, that’s you!) to support its online tra...

August 3, 2016