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February 10, 2016
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News massachusetts solar regulation
Massachusetts hits both net metering, REC caps, halting a ton of solar business
February 10, 2016
Financing SEIA
New Residential Lease Disclosure form to help your customers choose among solar options
February 10, 2016
News Ideal Power and LG Chem
Ideal Power, WESCO International agree on distribution deal
February 10, 2016
Mounting Guide AET-Rayport-I-Roof
String inverter mount from AET surpasses 1,000 units
February 9, 2016
News SolarEdge optimizer
Win $10,000 in celebration of SolarEdge’s 10 millionth power optimizer

SolarEdge Technologies, a global player PV inverters, power optimizers and module-level monitoring services, has shipped its 10 million...

February 9, 2016
News Pacific Gas & Energy
PG&E’s Solar Choice program lets customers go 100 percent solar...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) launched a program called Solar Choice, which extends the option for 100 percent solar power to ...

February 9, 2016
Batteries Sonnen battery
sonnenBatterie smart storage system meets HECO requirements

sonnen’s storage march through the U.S. continues. After meeting HECO’s energy storage requirements, the fully integrated sonnen...

February 9, 2016
News alsoenergy
Cypress Creek Renewables selects AlsoEnergy for monitoring of 2 GW...

Cypress Creek Renewables, a developer and long-term owner of utility-scale solar energy facilities, has selected AlsoEnergy to provide monit...

February 8, 2016
News encore-misty-knoll
Vermont developer rebrands as Encore Renewable Energy

Burlington, Vermont-based clean energy company Encore Redevelopment is rebranding as Encore Renewable Energy to focus more on commercia...

February 8, 2016
News SolarEdge
SolarEdge achieves record revenue in second fiscal quarter

SolarEdge Technologies announced its financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended December 31, 2015. Fiscal Second Quarter 2016 Hig...

February 8, 2016
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Install-O-Matic: One solar company is turning the jobsite into a...

Ever since the first solar PV system was installed, someone has been trying to remove components from it. Many of these are small and surgic...

February 8, 2016
News Massachusetts brownfield solar array
Brownfield in Massachusetts receives 6-MW system, developed by Syncarpha Capital

  Syncarpha Capital LLC, Borrego Solar Systems Inc., and Renewable Energy Massachusetts LLC (REM) completed a 6-MW solar array loc...

February 8, 2016
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DTE Electric files for update to electric distribution infrastructure

DTE Electric has filed a request with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to continue a multi-year modernization of southeast Mich...

February 2, 2016
Financing SEIA
Get some development, investment advice at Solar Goes Corporate

With more American businesses installing solar than ever before, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is gathering the brightest m...

February 2, 2016
News JA Solar
JA Solar modules hit new PID-resistance mark

JA Solar Holdings Co., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, announced that its entire po...

February 2, 2016
News jinkosolar
JinkoSolar donates 212 modules to Everybody Solar nonprofit

JinkoSolar Holding Co. is donating 57 kW to Everybody Solar, a U.S. non-profit organization working to provide solar to local charities. Jin...

February 1, 2016
News miasole baja solar carport
MiaSolé CIGS-based thin-film modules earn new certifications

MiaSolé announced that its CIGS-based, thin-film FLEX-02 solar modules are IEC 61646, IEC 61730, UL 1703 certified and UL 7...

February 1, 2016
Mounting Guide PanelClaw
PanelClaw, PVComplete team up for commercial solar rooftop design software

In the effort to streamline solar project design while reducing the cost of PV deployment, PanelClaw, a commercial roof top solar mounting m...

February 1, 2016
Batteries Sonnen battery
SonnenBatterie ready to push solar-storage system in U.S., inks partnerships...

sonnen is really ready to push into and own the U.S. solar-storage market. The European market leader for smart storage systems, announces a...

January 29, 2016