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Solar-Log smart meter Solar Data Systems’ Smart-Log meters achieve UL 2735 certification
Chris Crowell
March 4, 2016
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Mounting Guide SnapnRack MLPE attachment
SnapNrack launches MLPE rail attachment kit (for Enphase, SolarEdge)
March 4, 2016
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GameChange Genius Tracker wins 23-MW order for West Coast utility
March 3, 2016
News SEIA ITC extension
How a plan comes together: Behind the scenes of the ITC extension
March 3, 2016
News Intersolar
Head to Brooklyn for Intersolar Summit USA East
March 3, 2016
News Community Solar financing utility
Here’s a report on how utilities are planning for the...

  Electric utilities are facing a variety of challenges because of rising amounts of solar, storage and other distributed energy techno...

March 3, 2016
News Delta solar thermal tracker
Check out this huge solar thermal power plant using Delta...

Delta Group sent word about its participation in SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, the world’s largest co...

March 2, 2016
News Seraphim PV module
Seraphim Solar launches new Eclipse PV module

Seraphim Solar USA Manufacturing, Inc. is introducing its newest high-efficiency module, the Eclipse, to the global market. The product will...

March 2, 2016
News Panasonic solar solutions
Panasonic breaks module conversion efficiency record by full percentage point

Panasonic Corp. is the latest module manufacturer to break the efficiency record. The company reports it has achieved a photovoltaic module ...

March 2, 2016
News solaredge commercial
SolarEdge launches commercial inverter solution in Japan

SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., a global leader in PV inverters, power optimizers, and module-level monitoring services, is expanding its offe...

March 2, 2016
Featured
How SunPower’s Helix Platform takes aim at commercial sector

There are two big “I” words for the solar industry in 2016: investment and integration. This could be especially important for c...

February 29, 2016
Financing Figtree Financing
Figtree Financing develops solar financing model for nonprofits

Figtree Financing recently funded a PACE-financed prepaid Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a large San Diego church solar project that wil...

February 29, 2016
News PV conference SEIA
SEIA lays out local solar advocacy agenda at PV Conference...

Now freed from the unenviable task of lobbying Congress and actually getting them to do something (ahead of a deadline), the Solar Energy In...

February 29, 2016
Mounting Guide PCI Solar carport
WATCH: PCI Solar constructs carport in Woodland, Calif.

PCI Solar completed a solar carport array for the City of Woodland, Calif. The solar project, part of a 2.5-MW portfolio that PCI Solar...

February 26, 2016
News RBI-Solar-Vermont
Report calls out flaws in Vermont’s REC policy that have...

Vermont has the reputation of being a progressive solar state, but a report from the Energy Clinic at the Institute for Energy and the Envir...

February 26, 2016
News xcel
Details on Clean Energy Collective, Xcel Energy agree on community...

Colorado’s electricity customers will gain greater access to local clean power production after another boost to the state’s bur...

February 26, 2016
News PV Conference and EXPO
Four Project of Distinction award winners announced at PV Conference...

Four innovative and forward-looking photovoltaic (PV) solar projects were named winners of the 2016 Photovoltaic Project of Distinction awar...

February 24, 2016
News APsystems
APsystems brings aboard Andrew Nichols to U.S. Sales

Solar industry veteran Andrew Nichols has joined APsystems as SVP of Sales, USA. Andrew comes to APsystems with over 30 years in high t...

February 24, 2016
News Trinasolar
GlobalData: Trina Solar tops solar PV module producer in 2015

Trina Solar held on to its status as the world’s biggest producer of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in 2015, producing 4.55 (GW) of c...

February 24, 2016
News BiSoN module
BiSoN bifacial modules test results: 120 percent greater yield over...

The first results have emerged from one of the very first BiSoN bifacial module operating systems from Italy-based MegaCell to be installed:...

February 24, 2016