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AET ground mount dealer kit AET adds ground-mount dealer kits to expanded ECO product line
Chris Crowell
February 23, 2016
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Batteries Sunverge energy storage
Sunverge Energy improves Solar Integration System with more battery options, intelligence
February 23, 2016
News SunPower_Residential
NREL tests: SunPower X-Series solar panels reach 22.8 percent efficiency
February 23, 2016
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Solar dealers boost revenue with power conditioning equipment sales
February 23, 2016
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GameChange Racking changes name to GameChange Solar
February 22, 2016
News organic PV solar cell
Researchers improve efficiency of organic PV cells to 15 percent

A patented breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology improves the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells ...

February 22, 2016
Financing Nevada solar utility
Utility-scale developer SkyPower becomes Climate Bonds Partner

SkyPower, one of the largest developers of utility-scale solar energy projects in the world, has agreed to become a Climate Bonds Partner.&n...

February 22, 2016
Installation Contractor Education Fronius
Fronius hosting in-depth training at Solar Power PV Conference in...

For anyone heading to Boston for the Solar Power PV Conference & Expo, clear your schedule after lunch on Feb. 25 because Emmitt Muckles...

February 22, 2016
News US solar capacity
U.S. adds more solar capacity than natural gas for first...

Solar capacity records were made to be broken at this point. In yet another record-breaking year, the solar industry in the United States in...

February 22, 2016
Financing jinkosolar
JinkoSolar gives U.S. solar installers new residential financing program

JinkoSolar Holding Co.’s wholly owned subsidiary, JinkoSolar (U.S.) Inc., will begin offering residential solar financing to its custo...

February 22, 2016
News Intersolar
What are the hot topics in the solar industry right...

Intersolar North America is one of the top solar industry exhibition and conferences dedicated to the North American market, and 2016 will b...

February 19, 2016
News Giga Solar modules
Giga Solar’s high-efficiency lightweight modules pass mechanical stress tests

Giga Solar high-efficiency crystalline-silicon, lightweight photovoltaic (PV) modules have successfully completed a series of environmental ...

February 19, 2016
News Sun Edison
SunEdison to close, sell, refocus some facilities as part of...

SunEdison, Inc. is moving forward with a new strategy for its Solar Materials operations that is focused on asset-light proprietary silicon ...

February 18, 2016
News Open Energy financing
Low-income Nevada elementary schools adding solar thanks to Open Energy,...

More nice solar news from Nevada: Open Energy, a commercial solar debt finance provider, closed a construction solar loan tot...

February 18, 2016
News weblog monitoring
PV system operators get precise energy regulation with WEB’log

meteocontrol North America, Inc., a subsidiary of meteocontrol GmbH and a provider of solar performance monitoring software, services and ha...

February 18, 2016
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What you need to know about 1500-volt inverters

Seems like just yesterday that large-scale PV systems moved to 1,000 Vdc in the United States, but another sea change to the 1,500-volt syst...

February 18, 2016
News Panasonic HIT panels
Panasonic’s new residential PV modules achieve 36 percent higher yield

  Panasonic Eco Solutions North America is launching its most innovative and efficient solar panels yet, PV module HIT N330 and N3...

February 17, 2016
News Texas solar array
Details on the Texas’ Solar Club 60 program

Texas homeowners now can get the benefits of a virtual rooftop solar array, including a low, fixed electricity price, for five years with TX...

February 17, 2016
Batteries Solar City
SolarCity readies solar+storage system for Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative

SolarCity is going to install a first-of-its-kind solar array and energy storage system for Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC). ...

February 17, 2016
News sunpower
SunPower dedicates 15-MW PV system at Nellis Air Force Base

Some solar companies are still able to find work in Nevada. SunPower Corp. joined NV Energy, U.S. Senator Harry Reid, Assistant Secretary of...

February 17, 2016