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Consumers Energy Michigan’s Consumers Energy completes first solar power plant install
Chris Crowell
June 15, 2016
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Batteries SunPower Equinox_006
SunPower, Con Edison creating ‘virtual power plant’ via distributed PV + battery systems in New York
June 15, 2016
News solarmax Flex
SolarMax introduces all-in-one, integrated energy storage system
June 15, 2016
Financing Wunder Capital
New term financing for small commercial solar projects now offered by Wunder Capital
June 15, 2016
News Sungrow SH5K
Sungrow’s residential PV inverter shipments to Australia quadrupled in 2015
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
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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
News Solect energy solar
Solect Energy installs system at Thoreau Farm (for no charge)

Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau, is collaborating with Solect Energy of Hopkinton, Mass., to install a 7-kW solar energy...

June 13, 2016
News Encore renewable energy
Encore Renewable Energy earns B Corp. Certification

Encore Renewable Energy has become a Certified B Corp., joining more than 1,700 leading businesses in 50 countries that have met rigorous st...

June 9, 2016
News Solarcheck RSD
Solarcheck Rapid Shutdown device is integrated directly onto the panel

NEC 690.12 dictates that all rooftop solar PV systems must have a rapid shutdown function to protect first responders from electric shock in...

June 9, 2016
News CEC community solar
Clean Energy Collective adding 21 MW of new community solar...

Clean Energy Collective (CEC), community solar solutions provider, sent word that it is executing the next phase of its Massachusetts d...

June 9, 2016
News solar pv installs in United States
Solar energy on track for record-breaking year in U.S.

In the first quarter of 2016, 1,665 megawatts (MW) of solar PV were installed in the United States with the solar industry adding more new c...

June 9, 2016
News Sonnen battery
GE invests in energy storage company sonnen

GE Ventures joins sonnen’s mission to form the utility of the future. The venture arm of one of the world’s largest technology c...

June 7, 2016
News HiQ Solar inverters
OutBack Power partners with HiQ to sell TrueString products

OutBack Power Technologies, Inc., an off-grid and Grid/Hybrid renewable energy products and systems company, has formed a partnership w...

June 7, 2016