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Solar City SolarCity announce new Smart Energy Homes Pilot Project
Chris Crowell
September 11, 2015
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Mounting Guide Ecofasten SmartGrip
EcoFasten Solar to debut SimpleGrip for low-slope roofing at #SPIcon (watch it in action here)
September 10, 2015
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See Exosun’s new Exotrack HZ single-axis solar tracker at #SPIcon
September 10, 2015
Financing ENACT Proposal Builder
ENACT Systems partners with Sungage Financial for easier financing access
September 10, 2015
News SolarEdge HD Wave
WATCH: SolarEdge debuts streamlined HD-Wave inverter design
September 10, 2015
News Array Technologies
ATI’s new DuraTrack HZ v3 earns UL 3703 certification

Array Technologies, Inc. (ATI), a leading manufacturer of solar tracking systems, announced that its new DuraTrack HZ v3 single-ax...

September 10, 2015
Mounting Guide Spice-Splice-Roof-Install
JA Solar adds Spice Solar frame to modules for faster...

JA Solar Holdings Co., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, announced the availability o...

September 9, 2015
News solar education preview
SPI Education: PPA deals, O&M strategies, MLPE value, solar+storage

Learning lessons from past PPA deals Choose Your Own Adventure: The Road to Solar Project Development Tuesday, Sept. 15 4 p.m. – 5 p.m...

September 9, 2015
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Exosun to supply solar trackers for huge 146-MW project in...

Exosun, a major provider of solar tracking technologies for utility-scale, ground-mounted solar plants, has been selected by EDF energies No...

September 9, 2015
Batteries SimpliPhil Power
SimpliPhi to demo ‘hazards of cobalt chemistry’ in storage solutions...

Launching their long standing energy storage battery technology into the light-commercial and residential markets, SimpliPhi Power, is colla...

September 9, 2015
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Single-axis tracker from GameChange completes wind tunnel testing

GameChange Racking announced that wind tunnel testing was completed on the GameChange Power-Tracker single axis tracker. The testing was com...

September 8, 2015
News Enphase Energy
Enphase Energy selects AT&T for mobile connectivity for its new...

Enphase Energy selected AT&T to provide Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to cellular modems that are part of the Envoy-S with Mobil...

September 8, 2015
News Sun Edison
SunEdison, Dominion announce JV for 265-MW project in Utah

SunEdison and Dominion, one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy, announced a joint venture for the Three Ceda...

September 8, 2015
News SolaTrim barrier system
SolaTrim debuts Barrier System for solar arrays

SolaTrim, a provider of aftermarket solutions for residential solar integrators and consumers, launched a new technologically adva...

September 8, 2015
News Innovative Solar Systems
Innovative Solar Systems to become IPP in all 50 states

Innovative Solar Systems LLC (ISS) has become one of the largest developers of Utility Scale Solar Farms in the last decade and has now anno...

September 8, 2015
News Panasonic
Panasonic receives DOE grant to fund new PV system development

Panasonic was awarded a competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The ...

September 3, 2015
News Solar industry legislation
New website formed to urge Congress to extend the Investment...

Despite all of the hoopla the Obama Administration is making about solar these days, the sudden drop of the Investment Tax Credit still sits...

September 3, 2015
News Origis Energy
South Mississippi Electric will add solar to its energy portfolio

Hattiesburg-based South Mississippi Electric (SME) announced plans to grow its renewable energy portfolio through an agreement with Origis E...

September 3, 2015
News Hulk Energy Technology
Hulk Energy Technology debuts powerful CIGS solar module in U.S.

Hulk Energy Technology Co., Ltd. has made its powerful green CIGS solar module available in the U.S. The HULKet Cigs-3000 Series CIGS thin-f...

September 3, 2015
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Ecolibrium Solar adds logistics help from Atomic Transport

Atomic Transport and Ecolibrium Solar are excited to announce their two-year commitment to doing business together. Throughout the past year...

September 2, 2015