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New york community solar Groundbreaking New York starts construction on first community solar project
Chris Crowell
April 28, 2016
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News solar tile roof
U.S. roof market: Tiles trending up, reroofing to rebound, more
April 27, 2016
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AllEarth Renewables to donate portion of sales to help fight discriminatory N.C. law
April 27, 2016
News Intersolar
Intersolar North America expands conference offerings, tours, networking opportunities
April 27, 2016
News solar community program
New SolSmart program to cut ‘red tape’ for communities looking to boost solar installs
April 27, 2016
News solar company acquisition
Solarrus Corporation acquires Power Factors

  Solarrus Corp., an independent service provider in the North American solar, electric vehicle and battery energy storage industr...

April 26, 2016
News ComEd illinois solar rebate
ComEd launches new solar rebate proposal in Illinois

As part of its commitment to driving the clean energy future Illinois’ consumers want, ComEd announced a new rebate proposal designed ...

April 26, 2016
News SunPower_Residential
Legend Solar is bringing SunPower’s Equinox to Utah

Legend Solar, in partnership with SunPower, is introducing the SunPower Equinox system to Utah homeowners. With a typical SunPower Equinox i...

April 26, 2016
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Project of the Year Awards 2016 – Let the nominations...

Seems like just a few months ago we named our 2015 Project of the Year award winners. I suppose that’s because it was only a few month...

April 26, 2016
News Panasonic solar solutions
Soligent now offering Panasonic HIT solar modules

As one of North America’s top solar distributors, Soligent always goes the extra mile for its dealers, staying ahead of...

April 25, 2016
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GameChange Solar estimates 300 MW of Genius Trackers deployed in...

  GameChange Solar sent word that it expects to produce approximately 300 MW of Genius Tracker single axis tracker systems in the third...

April 25, 2016
News SunLink inverter tracking vertex
SunLink’s VERTEX app could revolutionize O&M, boost long-term solar plant...

SunLink Corporation’s next-generation, secure total project SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and solar performance mon...

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
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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