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January 29, 2016
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News net metering
Another solar win: California keeps net metering rates
January 29, 2016
News PSEG
PSEG takes ownership of two juwi solar facilities
January 29, 2016
Installation Contractor Education SunLink GeoPro training
WATCH: Advice for installing on a challenging solar site
January 28, 2016
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Princeton Power Systems earns big capital investment and new ISO certification
January 28, 2016
Batteries Orison energy storage
Orison claims to have plug-and-play energy storage system

Energy storage company Orison says it has come up with “the first true plug-and-play energy storage system” that is now availabl...

January 28, 2016
Mounting Guide SunLink
Details on SunLink’s tweaks to its GeoPro ground-mount system

SunLink Corp. isn’t done tweaking its GeoPro system. Already a trusted fixed-tilt ground-mount system (1 GW of PV projects), the GeoPr...

January 28, 2016
News Schneider Electric inverters
Schneider Electric works with CPS Energy on distribution automation strategy

Schneider Electric, a specialist in energy management and automation, has strengthened its collaboration with San Antonio-based CPS Energy, ...

January 27, 2016
News REC Solar winery install
Have a drink on solar: Castoro Cellars winery completes 625-kW...

Castoro Cellars has completed an installation of a massive new solar project that will allow the winery to run 100 percent on sola...

January 27, 2016
News solar installation marketing
New marketing training series for solar installers available via Energy...

Energy Trust of Oregon is launching a solar marketing training series for installers this month as part of the nonprofit’s ongoing eff...

January 27, 2016
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GameChange Racking hires new operations manager

GameChange Racking is pleased to announce the on-boarding of operations veteran Joe Desimone as operations manager. He has over 9 years of e...

January 27, 2016
Batteries Simpliphi executive
SimpliPhi Power adds solar veteran as COO

SimpliPhi Power continues to execute on its rapid expansion plans with the recent addition of Chris Beitel as chief operations officer. Beit...

January 26, 2016
News Sunpower Austin Texas
GRID Alternatives, SunPower bring solar to four low-income Texas homes

About 80 Austin-based employee volunteers from global solar innovator, SunPower, brought the transformative power of solar energy to four lo...

January 26, 2016
News Community Power Network
CPN tries to boost lagging Ohio solar market with OH...

The Community Power Network (CPN), a national network of local, state, and national advocates for renewable energy announced the openin...

January 26, 2016
Financing Solar City
SolarCity completes first securitization of distributed solar loan assets

SolarCity Corp. completed its first securitization of distributed solar loan assets, the company’s fifth securitization transaction to...

January 26, 2016
News new hampshire net metering cap
New Hampshire net metering cap angst: SunRay Solar lays off...

SunRay Solar LLC is a full-service solar energy systems integrator and is the leading installer for ground-mount in New Hampshire — bu...

January 25, 2016
News Radiant Solar Solutions-001
More Nevada solar layoffs: Premier Solar, Radiant Solar make cuts

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but solar companies are laying off workers in Nevada and looking for business out of state. F...

January 25, 2016
News CPS America string inverter
8 improvements in three-phase string inverters

Three-phase string products have dominated the distributed generation application space while central inverters are starting to be displaced...

January 25, 2016
Batteries Ideal Power logo
A commercial PV storage solution? Austin Energy, Ideal Power think...

Ideal Power Inc. has partnered with Austin Energy in a federally funded research program as part of the “Sustainable and Holistic Inte...

January 22, 2016
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World’s largest floating solar power plant on the way in...

In a joint venture, Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation announced that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has started construction ...

January 22, 2016