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solar stock price GlobalData: Hanergy’s troubles stem from thin-film module outlook
Chris Crowell
June 18, 2015
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News ampt string optimizers
Ampt LLC string optimizers delivering cent-per-watt value
June 18, 2015
News Schneider Conext Core XC680
Schneider Electric provides electrical BOS for 100 MW PV power plant in the Philippines
June 17, 2015
News CBS ArcSafe remote switch
CBS ArcSafe’s new remote switch actuator
June 17, 2015
News jinkosolar
JinkoSolar inks agreements with two prominent U.S. residential solar companies
June 17, 2015
News Sun Edison
SunEdison with two acquisitions: Continuum Wind Energy, GME

SunEdison, one of the world’s largest renewable energy development companies, just got larger, globally, announcing two acquisition ag...

June 16, 2015
Mounting Guide SnapNrack mounting
SnapNrack to debut new mounting solution at Intersolar NA

SnapNrack, a manufacturer of solar panel racking systems owned by Sunrun, will preview InvisiLight, its next evolution in rail-less sol...

June 16, 2015
News miasole-flex PV panels
MiaSolé intros new flexible thin-film PV module

MiaSolé, producer of lightweight, flexible and powerful solar cells, has released its second generation FLEX Series Modules. The...

June 16, 2015
News APS microinverters
AFP Power to carry APS solar microinverter line

American Family Place (AFP) Power solar distributors will carry the APS microinverter line exclusively, in a new partnership between the com...

June 16, 2015
News NGR Solar residential install
NFL linebacker joins NRG Home Solar to surprise local family

NRG Home Solar, one of the country’s leading residential solar companies, surprised a local customer installing rooftop solar panels w...

June 15, 2015
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Solar FlexRack provides racking system for naval station

Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals, provided its G3L preassembled racking systems for two ground mount solar arrays at the...

June 15, 2015
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Minneapolis-based tenKsolar ships 1.69 MW rooftop system to China

tenKsolar, a Minneapolis-based manufacturer of high energy density, low voltage PV systems, shipped 1.69 megawatts of tenKsolar DUO for...

June 15, 2015
News Solar purchase agreement
Solar Power Inc., Vision Edge Limited reach $40 million purchase...

Solar Power, Inc. (SPI), a vertically integrated PV developer, entered into a convertible promissory note purchase agreement and a...

June 15, 2015
News Hawaii solar power regulation
Hawaii commits to 100 percent renewable energy by 2045

Hawaii enacted a law this week that requires all of the state’s electricity to be produced from renewable energy sources no later than...

June 12, 2015
News solar panel theft prevention
Solar theft on the rise in Germany

As the solar market begins to boom across the globe, the industry is starting to draw interest from all sorts of new people and organization...

June 12, 2015
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Canadian Solar offers new warranty on polycrystalline, diamond modules

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world’s largest solar power companies, is offering a new upgraded warranty on its polycrystalline...

June 12, 2015
News Minnesota solar power
Minnesota city to be 100 percent solar powered

In what some would consider an unlikely place, Cologne, Minn., has signed a contract to power up to 100 percent of its city facilities&...

June 11, 2015
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Advanced energy market hits $6.2 billion in Florida

The advanced energy industry is a major economic force in Florida, at $6.2 billion in 2014 revenue, according to the first comprehensive ana...

June 11, 2015
News energy and water management
CalCom Solar, Wexus Technologies create energy-, water-saving tool

The agriculture / water / energy problem: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Due to a combination of a lack of data, high ...

June 10, 2015
News grid management solar
Report: Renewable energy reliability concerns are overstated

  A report prepared by The Brattle Group for the Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEE Institute) finds that high penetration levels o...

June 10, 2015