News

Solar industry news: Mounting, inverter, PV module, tracker and energy storage trends; net metering regulation; financing, buying trends and more.

solar agriculture Solar ag boom: Solar3D inks $12M in agricultural solar projects
Chris Crowell
January 7, 2016
Read Article
News Soelct solar steel company
PPA deal: Solect Energy, IGS Solar install 457-kW system for large steel manufacturer
January 7, 2016
News Solarize installers
Solarize programs a boon to solar installers, local communities
January 6, 2016
News Nevada solar power
SolarCity eliminates 500 jobs in Nevada after net-metering decision
January 6, 2016
Mounting Guide AET flood plain mounting
Solar Site Spotlight: Custom engineering for flood plain levels with AET
January 6, 2016
News AllEarth Renewable
Maine school turns to solar for power and science education

Education and sustainability go hand-in-hand, as one of our Project of the Winners from 2015 can testify. The Middle School of the Kennebunk...

January 5, 2016
News Baja construction solar carport
Existing carport retrofitted with MiaSole FLEX solar modules

MiaSolé recently installed its FLEX-02 solar modules over an existing carport, built by Baja Construction, at the Oakley Executive RV...

January 5, 2016
Batteries grid-scale energy storage
Grid-scale storage BOS costs to decline 41 percent by 2020

These days, grid-scale energy storage balance of system (BOS) costs average $670 per kilowatt. These costs include hardware like inverters a...

January 5, 2016
News TXU Energy solar plan
TXU Energy launches 100 percent Texas Solar Electricity Plan

Bringing yet another innovative option to Texas electricity consumers, TXU Energy has announced TXU Energy Solar Advantage, the market&rsquo...

January 5, 2016
News global co2 emissions
GlobalData: Significant work needed to achieve COP21 climate change goals

The ambitious Paris Agreement reached at the recent United Nations’ 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21), which ultimately aims to l...

December 30, 2015
Batteries Tabuchi-inverter-storage---cut-1
Inside Tabuchi’s storage plus inverter system

You’ve likely not heard of Tabuchi, but you may have already installed one of its inverters. That’s because the Japanese electro...

December 29, 2015
News sunpower
SunPower gets 50-MW Colorado solar plant up and running

Xcel Energy and SunPower Corp. announced the commercial operation of the 50-MW Hooper solar photovoltaic power plant in Colorado’s San...

December 28, 2015
News SPIsolar
Share options for Solar Power Inc. exercised by Brilliant King...

Solar Power Inc. (SPI) is a global provider of photovoltaic solutions for business, residential, government and utility customers and invest...

December 28, 2015
News Solar City
SolarCity affirms: ‘We have no alternative but to cease Nevada...

SolarCity followed up on its claim that it would cease doing business in Nevada if the state’s Public Utilities Commission voted ...

December 28, 2015
News
DTE Energy working on two huge (45-MW) utility-owned solar projects...

DTE Energy, in collaboration with the City of Lapeer, Mich., plans to break ground in the spring of 2016 on 45 megawatts (MW) of new solar g...

December 22, 2015
News dominion solar power
Dominion Virginia Power strikes deal for 110 MW of solar

Dominion Virginia Power and the Commonwealth of Virginia reached an agreement to deploy 110 MW of solar power generation. Gov. Terry Mc...

December 22, 2015
News Nevada solar rates
Solar CEOs say they will cease operations in Nevada if...

Nevada is on the verge of voting on a drastic change to its rate structure that would retroactively affect anyone who has already installed ...

December 22, 2015
Batteries Oregon solar storage project
Energy storage demonstration in Oregon earns federal funds

The Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE), in a joint solicitation with the energy storage program of US DOE Office of Electricity (US DOE-OE),...

December 21, 2015
Financing Innovative Solar Systems
Utility-scale developer to further increase capital raise, post-ITC news

Innovative Solar Systems LLC (ISS), one of the largest developers of utility scale solar PV systems in the country, has been hyping a capita...

December 21, 2015
News ITC solar tax credits
ITC extension: Solar industry reacts (celebrates)

It is Monday, and the solar industry is nursing a hangover after a weekend spent celebrating the extension of the Investment Tax Credits (IT...

December 21, 2015