News

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

HULK Energy Cigs-3000 HULKet’s CIGS solar module passes IEC, UL tests
Chris Crowell
October 19, 2015
Read Article
News APsystems
WATCH: APsystems EMA and ECU monitoring system basics explained
October 19, 2015
News perovskite solar cell
UCLA promotes advances in perovskite solar cell commercial viability
October 19, 2015
News Fronius solar division
Fronius names new director of solar energy division
October 16, 2015
News
Exosun Pursues its International Expansion and Opens a Subsidiary in Brazil
October 15, 2015
News
Farmland Partners Enters Ground Lease Agreement For S.C. Solar Farm

Farmland Partners Inc. has entered into a ground lease agreement for a solar farm on one of its South Carolina farms. The agr...

October 15, 2015
News
Eos Energy Solutions To Develop Next-Gen Storage Solution With NEC...

NEC Energy Solutions, a subsidiary of NEC Corp., announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Eos Energy Storage LLC to develo...

October 15, 2015
News Solar City
SolarCity Opens New Operations Center in Vermont

SolarCity has opened a new 13,000 square foot operations center in Burlington, Vt.. The new facility is SolarCity’s first operations c...

October 15, 2015
News grid-alternatives
GRID Alternatives plans multi-home installation for “Operation: Solar for San...

  GRID Alternatives San Diego, a non­profit organization making renewable energy technology and job training accessible to und...

October 15, 2015
News REC Solar winery project
Niner Wine Estates achieves net-zero energy via REC Solar

REC Solar, a national provider of commercial solar and energy solutions, announced the interconnection of two solar energy arrays totaling 3...

October 14, 2015
News
EnergySage Report: Solar costs falling, installers not brand loyal, and...

EnergySage is a solar marketplace that connects customers with solar installers and financiers across the country. This model allows them to...

October 14, 2015
Mounting Guide AET-Rayport-B-ECO-Microgrid-001
AET to provide racking system for 252 kW Microgrid Energy...

  Applied Energy Technologies (AET), a preferred supplier of commercial and utility-scale racking systems and one of the top 10 solar r...

October 14, 2015
News
SimpliPhi Power Batteries Earn High Marks in Marine Corps Storage...

SimpliPhi Power’s OES 1.3kWh and OES 2.6kWh High-Output batteries were just rigorously tested by extreme discharge and charge paramete...

October 13, 2015
Financing Solect-Logo
PowerOptions, Solect Energy team on Small Systems Solar program

PowerOptions, a Massachusetts energy-buying consortium, signed a deal with Solect Energy, a full-service commercial-scal...

October 12, 2015
Featured
Rapid System Shutdown: Questions and Solutions

The updated 2014 National Electrical Code’s (NEC) manual, Section 690.12, says that a PV system needs to be able to reduce the voltage...

October 12, 2015
News canadian-solar-logo
Canadian Solar to build huge 47-MWp solar plant in Japan

Canadian Solar Inc. signed an agreement with Mashiki Town and Kumamoto Prefecture to build a 47-MWp solar power plant. Once completed, the M...

October 12, 2015
News Spotlight Solar
NC State installs tree-like solar array from Spotlight Solar

North Carolina State University demonstrated its commitment to clean energy by unveiling a student-funded, architectural solar structure by ...

October 12, 2015
News Ideal Power logo
Ideal Power to send power conversion systems to EnerDel for...

Ideal Power Inc. received a multi-unit purchase order from EnerDel, a manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and energy storage syst...

October 9, 2015
News Utah solar array
Take a look at Utah’s largest privately owned solar array

Rio Tinto Stadium, the home of Major League Soccer’s Real Salt Lake as well as the USL Real Monarchs, flipped the ceremonial switch on...

October 9, 2015
Mounting Guide GameChange thin-film ballasted solar racking
GameChange Racking launches new thin-film pile, ballasted ground systems

GameChange Racking announced that it has launched the MaxSpan Thin Film System and the Pour-in-Place Ballasted Ground Thin Film System. The ...

October 9, 2015