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Bay4 Energy O&M Bay4 Energy Services brings on new president of technical services
Chris Crowell
December 18, 2015
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News BiSoN_Cell
MegaCell touts 25% bifacial efficiency of solar cell
December 18, 2015
News solar prices per watt
Report: Average residential solar prices $3 to $4 per watt, commercial $2 to $3
December 18, 2015
News AllEarth Renewables
Vermont Technical College to install 500-kW solar farm
December 17, 2015
News SunPower Helix module mounting
SunPower to install 5.2-MW PV systems across UCSB campus
December 17, 2015
News Patriot-Solar-Group
Patriot Solar Group signs on for two community solar projects

Patriot Solar Group and Lansing Board of Water and Light (BWL) have signed two solar Power Purchase Agreements for Lansing and East Lan...

December 17, 2015
News ITC tax credit extension
How big is the ITC extension? How about 54% install...

As the solar industry eagerly awaits the outcome of the omnibus spending bill that includes a five-year extension to the solar investment ta...

December 17, 2015
News Trinasolar
New efficiency record for mono-crystalline silicon solar cell, says Trina

Trina Solar Limited announced that its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China has set a new record for industrial high-e...

December 16, 2015
News solar installer
Survey: Solar installer competition getting fierce

  EnergySage released the results of its inaugural 2015 Solar Installer Survey, which captures the key observations of local and region...

December 16, 2015
News congress
ITC update: Omnibus appropriations bill includes long-term extension

SEIA’s Rhone Resch reports this morningan omnibus appropriations bill was filed by congressional leaders that provides a long-term ext...

December 16, 2015
Batteries Simpliphi Wall of batteries
New smart home solar-plus-storage system exceeds estimates by 23 percent

An award-winning, fully-automated smart home in rural New York state was recently transformed into a solar-plus-energy-storage net-zero esta...

December 16, 2015
News micro community Seattle solar
Check out this new 42-home sustainable micro community in Seattle

Award-winning residential developer Dwell Development LLC completed a 42-home sustainable micro community in Seattle’s Columbia City n...

December 15, 2015
Financing sungevity online buying
Largest financing of a private solar company in 2015? Sungevity

Sungevity completed an equity and project financing transaction totaling $650 million to support the company’s U.S. and international ...

December 15, 2015
News GlobalData renewable report
GlobalData: Renewables to be fastest growing power source in U.S....

Non-hydro renewable energy will be the fastest-growing power source in the U.S. over the next decade,  according to consulting firm Glo...

December 15, 2015
News Ginlong solar canopy
Ginlong Solis provides string inverters to the world’s largest solar...

Recently, news spreads out that the world’s largest solar canopy will be built at Hangzhou Bay in China. It was said that this solar c...

December 15, 2015
News Apex Solar Power
Apex Solar achieves company-wide NABCEP accreditation

Apex Solar Power has achieved a milestone shared by a select few solar companies in the United States: company-wide NABCEP accreditation. Th...

December 14, 2015
News city council solar vote
Town rejects solar farm because it will ‘suck up all...

North Carolina is one of the more progressive, up-and-coming states for solar energy development. We even started a slow clap when it hit 1 ...

December 14, 2015
News REC solar
PVComplete, REC Solar team up to accelerate solar project design

PVComplete, a solar design software provider, announced that it has selected by REC Solar as their PV project design platform. REC Solar, a ...

December 14, 2015
News Solect Energy
Solect Energy installs 537-kW system atop JLS Mailing Services

JLS Mailing Services, one of New England’s largest presort mailing and printing companies, has partnered with Solect Energy of Hopkint...

December 11, 2015
Batteries Sun Edison
SunEdison signs big commercial solar+storage deal with Ontario IESO

SunEdison signed a 10-year agreement with Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator to supply 5 MW — 20 MWh — of b...

December 11, 2015