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April 26, 2016
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Featured project-of-the-year
Project of the Year Awards 2016 – Let the nominations begin!
April 26, 2016
News Panasonic solar solutions
Soligent now offering Panasonic HIT solar modules
April 25, 2016
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GameChange Solar estimates 300 MW of Genius Trackers deployed in Q3
April 25, 2016
News SunLink inverter tracking vertex
SunLink’s VERTEX app could revolutionize O&M, boost long-term solar plant profitability
April 25, 2016
News Geostellar solar power software
Geostellar works with Etsy to form Etsy Solar

Online solar marketplace Geostellar officially announced a partnership with Etsy, Inc., a marketplace where people around the world connect ...

April 25, 2016
News SolVoltaics
Nanowire breakthrough could boost module efficiencies by 50 percent

In what could be a major breakthrough for solar energy, Swedish advanced materials start-up Sol Voltaics AB has confirmed the successful ali...

April 22, 2016
News Sun Edison
SunEdison files for bankruptcy, solar industry comments

SunEdison, Inc. announced that it has “commenced a process to restructure its balance sheet and position the company for the future.&r...

April 22, 2016
News SolarWorld
SolarWorld supplying panels for Valley Electric Association project

SolarWorld is supplying 17.5 MW of its high-efficiency 72-cell solar panels for a project that the Valley Electric Association (VEA) is...

April 22, 2016
Financing Wunder Capital
RENVU Solar Distribution now has flexible short-term financing via Wunder...

RENVU Solar Equipment Distribution, a California based equipment distributor, has teamed up with Wunder Capital to offer its customers flexi...

April 21, 2016
News Senate energy bill
Solar energy is the only thing that bridges the partisan...

Wow, something in the air is bringing about big energy compromises. Congress can’t agree on the color of money, but so far this year t...

April 21, 2016
News Arizona solar utility
APS Arizona Sun Program adds nine solar plants over five...

More than one million solar panels are now live in the Arizona desert producing clean power for APS customers (Arizona’s largest and l...

April 21, 2016
News SMA-Rapid-Shutdown-System_sm
SMA debuts residential rapid shutdown system to use with Sunny...

SMA’s much-anticipated Rapid Shutdown System is now available for immediate shipping to the North American residential PV market. Engi...

April 20, 2016
News UGE microgrid best practices
Microgrids: Why are they gaining in popularity, what part does...

UGE is an organization focused on providing commercial and industrial customers with more affordable, reliable electricity. A big part of th...

April 20, 2016
Featured sonnen batterie
Primer for buying, installing residential solar+storage systems

Energy storage has emerged as a technology that helps make solar power a winning choice for homeowners, and the rapid evolution of battery c...

April 20, 2016
News New York solar power
New York utilities, SolarCity propose landmark partnership

New York just keeps bringing the solar news, with most of it centered on collaboration. Six New York investor-owned utilities have joined So...

April 20, 2016
News Blue Diamond Power conduits w flag Apr 2016
Conduit manufacturer Blue Diamond Industries to expand, relocate

Blue Diamond Industries LLC, a manufacturer of HDPE Conduit and Cable in Conduit, will be relocation and expanding after completing the purc...

April 19, 2016
News princeton-power-systems
New microgrids in Haiti install demand response inverters from Princeton...

Princeton Power Systems will be supplying its core technology for the first project engineered by Geninov Group of Canada, a consu...

April 19, 2016
News DCE Solar Contour DB
DCE Solar’s Contour DB racking selected for 1.38 MW installation

After exceeding expectations on their first solar installation, ASSA ABLOY selected DCE Solar’s highly-adaptable Contour DB (Driven Be...

April 19, 2016
Financing solar PV data analysis
U.S. to standardize solar data collection, could revolutionize marketplace

Data unlocks understanding, and those who control data collection and analysis can wield considerable power. Data is a big part of evaluatin...

April 19, 2016