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Chris Crowell
April 11, 2016
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SEPA: How to achieve low LCOE utility-scale solar without cutting costs
April 8, 2016
News AmptV1000StringOptimizer---CUT-1
Ampt string optimizers added to PVsyst software update
April 8, 2016
News BayWa re
WGL Energy, BayWa r.e. completes solar facility in Delano, Calif,
April 8, 2016
News DCE Solar case study
Case study: How DCE Solar’s Cap-Rack System helped a 4.9-MW multi-site project
April 7, 2016
News REC solar
REC Solar, Sungevity form strategic partnership

REC Solar, a national provider of commercial solar and energy solutions, and Sungevity, a leader in the global solar market, announced a str...

April 7, 2016
News Pika Energy Island
Details on the Pika Energy Island system now available for...

It is now the second quarter of 2016, which means that Pika Energy Inc. will begin shipping its new Pika Energy Island systems. “...

April 7, 2016
News massachusetts solar
Massachusetts reaches net metering compromise — a win for solar?

The biggest solar and state net metering impasse has reached its end. State legislators in Massachusetts (both House and Senate) have&n...

April 7, 2016
News solar program sunpower
The Solar Program is looking for New York, New Jersey...

The Solar Program, an East coast residential solar sales and marketing group, just launched a new affiliate partnership program in New ...

April 6, 2016
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Q&A with SolarEdge about new StorEdge storage system

Earlier this year, SolarEdge Technologies announced its StorEdge solution would be available for international distribution after completing...

April 6, 2016
News Hawaii solar utility
Hawaiian Electric Co. looks to improve grid reliability, boost rooftop...

Here at the NABCEP 2016 Conference in San Diego, no matter what the panel is about, talk always seems to lead back to the effect on the grid...

April 6, 2016
News ET Solar mono modules
ET Solar launches new monocrystalline module — EliTe Mono

ET Solar announces the global launch of its new generation monocrystalline module – EliTe Mono. All ET Solar’s monocrystall...

April 5, 2016
News EnergySage
EnergySage Report: Consumers value solar install price transparency

EnergySage published its second semi-annual Solar Marketplace Intel Report, providing further visibility into the residential solar market i...

April 5, 2016
News Outback Power inverters
OutBack Power shows off easy-to-install solar equipment #NABCEP2016

OutBack Power Technologies, is showcasing its prewired system line at the 2016 NABCEP (North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioner...

April 5, 2016
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New York’s Con Edison to start promoting SunPower to homeowners

New York’s solar industry keeps making news. The latest involves Con Edison, which provides electricity to 3.4 million customers in th...

April 5, 2016
News Georgia Power
Georgia Power authorized for 44 MW plant at Marine Corps...

Georgia Power recently executed a real estate outgrant with the Department of the Navy (DON) that authorizes the company to use land on the ...

April 4, 2016
News selling solar
IREC launches new tools to help consumers go solar

Along with the growing number of Americans exploring powering their homes from the sun, comes the need to help consumers through the complex...

April 4, 2016
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The tech behind Ideal Power’s Multi-Port Conversion System

Solar and storage will be the peanut butter and jelly of the next few decades. And if this is true (and I just said it was), then power conv...

April 4, 2016
News global PV installations
World experts think global PV installations hit 3 TW by...

Scientists from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with their counterparts from solar energy r...

April 4, 2016
News delta microinverters
Delta Microinverters licenses patent developed by IUPUI (uses one fastener)

Entrepreneurs who have licensed a patent-pending innovation developed by an engineering professor at Indiana University-Purdue University In...

April 1, 2016