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global pv sales Global PV inverter market to grow 11 percent despite Asia-Pacific slowdown
Chris Crowell
June 17, 2016
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News Sunpreme bifacial panels
Sunpreme Bifacial PV panels now atop UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Hall
June 16, 2016
News Solect-Logo
Details on Solect Energy’s new O&M services program
June 16, 2016
News sunpower
Toyota’s new U.S. headquarters to feature 7.75-MW solar system from SunPower
June 16, 2016
Batteries solaredge lg chem
SolarEdge’s StorEdge now compatible with LG Chem’s new high voltage batteries
June 16, 2016
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Solar trackers power metal refinishing company Sungen Circle Finishing

Twenty-two solar trackers are now powering metalwork company Sungen Circle Finishing in Newburyport, Mass. The 186-kW solar project will hel...

June 16, 2016
News PCI Solar
PCI Solar awarded contract by Austin Independent School District (592...

PCI Solar has been awarded the contract to build solar arrays on four schools for the Austin Independent School District. The award was deci...

June 16, 2016
News Consumers Energy
Michigan’s Consumers Energy completes first solar power plant install

Consumers Energy completed installation of its first solar power plant — a 17-acre array of 11,000 Michigan-made solar panels at Grand...

June 15, 2016
Batteries SunPower Equinox_006
SunPower, Con Edison creating ‘virtual power plant’ via distributed PV...

Beginning this summer, Con Edison and SunPower Corp. will partner on a pilot program to offer solar power systems with battery storage to mo...

June 15, 2016
News solarmax Flex
SolarMax introduces all-in-one, integrated energy storage system

While some of the industry’s largest solar companies have generated years of buzz with their battery back-up power for the home, ...

June 15, 2016
Financing Wunder Capital
New term financing for small commercial solar projects now offered...

Wunder Capital is starting to own the world of solar financing. The Boulder, Colo.-based financial technology company recently launched its ...

June 15, 2016
News Sungrow SH5K
Sungrow’s residential PV inverter shipments to Australia quadrupled in 2015

Sungrow, one of the worlds’ largest PV inverter manufacturers, says that its residential inverter shipments to Australi...

June 15, 2016
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New solar training for fire fighters announced by IREC

With one million homes and businesses nationwide now producing energy through solar roof panels, the likelihood that fire fighters and other...

June 14, 2016
News APsystems
APsystems launches all-in-one ArrayApp mobile solar installer tool

APsystems this week unveiled an all-new version of ArrayApp, its powerful installer mobile application. ArrayApp is designed to streaml...

June 14, 2016
Batteries KACO inverter
KACO releases MW-class bi-directional battery inverter

  KACO new energy is opening up a whole new dimension with the blueplanet gridsave 1000 TL3: a storage solution in the megawatt-class. ...

June 14, 2016
Featured
What lies beneath: Mount a string inverter under an array...

PV systems are just a series of connections — modules to strings, panels to racking, inverters to the grid, etc. These pieces often al...

June 14, 2016
News Colorado solar rates Xcel
Solar industry rallies in Colorado to fight Xcel Energy rate...

Xcel Energy, a utility in Colorado, has proposed increasing fixed charges for all customers while reducing charges on energy used. Xcel also...

June 13, 2016
News clean energy collective alipine bank
Apline Bank funds community solar project in Colorado to benefit...

Community solar has the power to, well, bring a community together. We see a great example of this in Silverthorne, Colo., where a firs...

June 13, 2016
News Hawaii solar grid supply
Hawaii nears grid-supply cap, self-supply not taking off, HESA warns...

The Hawaii Solar Energy Association has issued its third consecutive monthly report that warns of a cloudy future for the state’s sola...

June 13, 2016
Batteries LG Chem solar storage
Huge solar + storage system (7 MW) powered by LG...

S&C Electric Co. is making one of the largest solar and energy storage systems in the United States, and to do so, commissioned a&n...

June 13, 2016