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Trinasolar Trina Solar completes 3 distributed generation projects in China (27 MW)
Chris Crowell
January 11, 2016
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Get to know NEC 2017 revisions: Updated PV labels, rapid system shutdown
January 11, 2016
News New Hampshire solar
New Hampshire residents support solar energy, net metering
January 11, 2016
News Duke Energy
Duke Energy constructing 17-MW solar facility at Indiana Naval base
January 8, 2016
Installation Contractor Education solar military training
N.Y. plans to train Fort Drum military personnel in solar jobs
January 8, 2016
News Sun Edison
SunEdison signs 1-MW deal with city of Watervliet, N.Y.

SunEdison signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Watervliet, N.Y., for close to 1-MW DC of solar power. The solar power will be used...

January 8, 2016
News Solar City
Johns Hopkins taps SolarCity, Direct Energy, OneEnergy Renewables for 13.6-MW...

Johns Hopkins says it is time to start producing some of its own affordable, reliable energy. But due to lack of roof or ground space on cur...

January 7, 2016
Financing solar corporate funding
Solar industry’s total 2015 corporate funding exceeds $25 billion

Mercom Capital Group LLC, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and merger and acqui...

January 7, 2016
Financing solar agriculture
Solar ag boom: Solar3D inks $12M in agricultural solar projects

Solar3D Inc., has secured approximately $12 million via several new agreements to provide agricultural and commercial customers in the North...

January 7, 2016
News Soelct solar steel company
PPA deal: Solect Energy, IGS Solar install 457-kW system for...

Mass Tank, the largest steel tank manufacturer in New England, has partnered with Solect Energy of Hopkinton, Mass., and IGS Solar to instal...

January 7, 2016
News Solarize installers
Solarize programs a boon to solar installers, local communities

One of the coolest parts of the solar industry, as far as an energy industry goes, is the collaboration it can create between suppliers, cit...

January 6, 2016
News Nevada solar power
SolarCity eliminates 500 jobs in Nevada after net-metering decision

Following the decision by Governor Brian Sandoval’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to drastically alter Nevada’s rooftop sola...

January 6, 2016
Mounting Guide AET flood plain mounting
Solar Site Spotlight: Custom engineering for flood plain levels with...

  The Rayport-G ECO mounting system from Applied Energy Technologies (AET), a preferred supplier of commercial and utility-scale rackin...

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
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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