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Sunpreme bifacial modules Calif.-based installer Option One joins Sunpreme Channel network
Chris Crowell
August 9, 2016
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You down with CIP? How cast-in-place foundations add flexibility to a solar installation
August 8, 2016
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Vivint Solar closes $313 million term loan facility
August 8, 2016
Financing BlueWave capital loan
BlueWave makes solar loan product available in the Carolinas (and has installer incentives)
August 8, 2016
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Nevada Supreme Court decides against voting referendum to restore net metering
August 5, 2016
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Georgia’s Solarize Athens campaign triples area’s residential solar installs

June 30 marked the last day for Solarize Athens, and after tabulating the results the coalition in charge of Solarize Athens, made up of Env...

August 5, 2016
News Mosaic solar financing
Solar loan provider Mosaic keeps growing: $220M equity financing round...

Mosaic, one of the leading providers of affordable solar financing solutions for homeowners, just secured an equity financing of u...

August 5, 2016
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Details on solar project underway at Michael David Winery

The Michael David Winery completed phase 1 of its solar install at its Highway 12 and Bare Ranch locations in Lodi, Calif. Having pride...

August 4, 2016
News sunlink iowa community solar
$80,000 grant awarded to expand community solar program in New...

The Energy Clinic at the Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE) at Vermont Law School announced an $80,000 grant from The John Merck...

August 4, 2016
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First Solar books big utility-scale community solar deployment

Utility-scale solar powerhouse First Solar says it has sales bookings of 121 MW DC of advanced technology thin film modules that&n...

August 4, 2016
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New floating marine science barge in Miami powered by PV

A group of renewable energy system suppliers donated their components and expertise to a cool new floating marine lab and environmental educ...

August 4, 2016
News net metering solar
U.S. solar policy update: 42 states take action (24 involving...

Solar is a hot topic around the country as regulators, legislators and utilities all try and figure out the best way to approach this new, d...

August 3, 2016
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Five trends shaping the global solar market in 2016

The global solar market is going through a wild 2016. The first half of this year saw a major spike in demand driven by an unprecedented vol...

August 3, 2016
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Recent projects from Baker Electric: Jewish center, Catholic school, golf...

Baker Electric Solar, a full-service solar company based in San Diego, has sent word on a couple recent commercial projects it has completed...

August 3, 2016
News APsystems
Check out this microinverter install training series from APsystems

APsystems just launched a video series aimed at registered, professional solar installers (hey, that’s you!) to support its online tra...

August 3, 2016
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SolarCity, Tesla make things official and merge to focus on...

Are you sitting down? SolarCity and Tesla will be joining forces to ramp up efforts on a big-time solar-plus-storage rollout in the U.S. The...

August 2, 2016
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Draker Corp. explains new generation solar data acquisition, control systems

Draker Corporation, a global provider of data management, analytics and control systems for distributed power generation and a subsidiary of...

August 2, 2016
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Details on new utility-scale optimizer, central inverter solution from Alencon...

Solar Power International is the ultimate place to see the latest and most interesting new products and services driving the solar industry ...

August 2, 2016
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Enter the Matrix: How much can a PV system change...

All PV power generation starts with a simple cell. One is wired to the next, then to the next, and then those are grouped into modules and t...

August 2, 2016
News georgia solar
Georgia Power greenlights 1.6 GW of renewable energy by 2021

The Georgia Public Service Commission today by a 4-1 vote approved a revised Georgia Power Company Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) that will ...

August 1, 2016