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American Clean Power report solar Report: Renewable energy industry creates 100K new U.S. jobs
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August 8, 2024
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Projects DSD General Energy Illinois park rooftop solar
DSD, General Energy to deploy 1.54 MW of solar for Illinois park districts
August 8, 2024
+ Storage neovolta
NeoVolta energy storage products added to EnFin, Sungage AVLs
August 7, 2024
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GoodWe LVSMT-US inverter offers voltage, power flexibility for small C&I
August 7, 2024
+ Storage texas
Sunrun, Tesla partner on distributed power plant in Texas
August 7, 2024
Projects Greenskies rooftop solar san jose
Greenskies installs 130 kW rooftop solar for apartments in San...

Real estate developer GID and renewable energy provider Greenskies Clean Focus have completed a commercial solar system at Pavona Apartments...

August 6, 2024
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Video: Business Leadership Summit 2024 Takeaways

BayWa r.e. recently hosted top customers and solar industry experts at its Business Leadership Summit. Director of Marketing Summer Rain Urs...

August 6, 2024
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SunPower files for bankruptcy, sells some assets to Complete Solaria

SunPower Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, a move that seemed inevitable after the recent decision to halt its PPA and lease ...

August 6, 2024
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Sunlight Financial joins Residential Solar Association

Point-of-sale solar finance company Sunlight Financial Holdings announced its new status as a Visionary Member of the Residential Solar Asso...

August 5, 2024
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Generac acquires microgrid controller company Ageto

Generac Power Systems announced the acquisition of Ageto, a leading provider of microgrid controllers, on August 1, 2024. Terms of...

August 5, 2024
News franklinWH
Three factors powering the age of the battery

Contributed by Vincent Ambrose, CCO, FranklinWH | Last year, climate-induced natural disasters created over $2.5 trillion in damages in the ...

August 5, 2024
News skyview ventures
Davis Hill Development plans for 30% growth thanks to C&I...

Skyview Ventures forecasts 30% growth in total projects, due in large part to the speed and accuracy of its C&I modeling in HelioScope. ...

August 5, 2024
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Solar mounting merger: Enstall acquires Schletter

Enstall, a rooftop solar mounting solutions provider, announced the acquisition of Schletter Group, a Germany-based provider of solar mounti...

August 1, 2024
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AES debuts Maximo, the solar installation robot

Solar jobsite automation is the step-change in large-scale solar project construction that many developers and EPCs are striving toward. For...

August 1, 2024
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MidNite Solar agrees to license Tigo rapid shutdown tech

MidNite Solar Inc., a manufacturer of inverters and various electronic balance of system products, has licensed rapid shutdown technology fr...

August 1, 2024
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Fronius GEN24 Roadshow announced (check out locations and dates)

Fronius USA is now launching a Fronius GEN24 Roadshow to showcase the newly available Fronius GEN24 residential string inverter. Touring acr...

August 1, 2024
News solar cells made in US
U.S. solar cell production coming via Heliene, Premier Energies joint...

Building and securing solar cell supply is the key to emerging U.S. / North America solar module manufacturing base. Back in June 2022, we s...

August 1, 2024
Projects Project of the Year POY solar
Deadline for Project of the Year submissions is this week!

Solar Builder is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Project of the Year awards. The deadline for submission is Sept. 6. The 2024 Project...

July 31, 2024
News interconnection-queue
The energy storage interconnection queue is broken. Here are some...

As the energy storage interconnection queue gets longer and longer, new strategies are emerging to speed up studies, to make costs more tran...

July 31, 2024
News freedom-forever
Freedom Forever purchases Meraki Solar assets, eyes 40% growth in...

The U.S. residential solar market is down, but charts continue to go up for Freedom Forever. The national solar installer is perhaps most kn...

July 29, 2024