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June 19, 2024
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Projects Castillo Recon community solar Illinois
Castillo Engineering secures 56 MW of community solar projects in Illinois
June 19, 2024
Projects ESS DSD agrivoltaics solar
Agrivoltaics enables solar on challenging terrain in Virginia
June 18, 2024
News xendee
Xendee PROPOSE streamlines microgrid, EV fast charging project proposals
June 18, 2024
News GAF Energy Timberline
GAF Energy to build solar roofing testing facility with DOE funding
June 18, 2024
News Fronius GEN24
On-Demand: Fronius GEN24 inverter overview

Watch on-demand Get energized for the future of home energy in this Fronius GEN24 webinar, featuring presenter Paul Bui, Fronius Technical A...

June 18, 2024
Sponsored Content Freedom Forever and Boundless
Case study: Building homeowner trust with Freedom Forever and Boundless

The solar industry has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, but solar companies face many hurdles in this competitive landscape. A...

June 17, 2024
+ Storage Canadian-Solar-EP-Cube
Homebuilder D.R Horton to offer Canadian Solar modules, energy storage

Homeowners in D.R. Horton communities have a new option to generate and store solar energy. U.S. homebuilder D.R. Horton has agreed to offer...

June 17, 2024
News climate insurance
Improve BESS insurance terms with battery behavior monitoring

The battery energy storage (BESS) industry has struggled with securing BESS insurance coverage, with high-profile incidents of thermal runaw...

June 17, 2024
News virtual power plants
EnergyHub earns CEC grant to expand California virtual power plants

EnergyHub is set to expand California VPPs. EnergyHub, an independent subsidiary of Alarm.com, and a provider of Edge DERMS, was awarded a C...

June 17, 2024
News Empact-Technologies-software
Empact adds Energy Community ITC Bonus Credit compliance to software

Empact Technologies incorporated the June 7, 2024, Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Energy Community Bonus Credit guidelines, to its tax incent...

June 17, 2024
News Sunnova AVL QuickBOLT Pitch
QuickBOLT: Sunnova AVL listing, Miami-Dade approval, and expanding product line...

Quality solar system products – from the modules to mounts – prove their value and compliance by testing to standards and gettin...

June 17, 2024
Projects RWE Casey Fork solar site Illinois
RWE begins construction on first utility-scale solar project in Illinois

Site of RWE’s Casey Fork Solar project in Illinois. RWE is building its first utility-scale solar project in Illinois to help the stat...

June 12, 2024
Inverters and eBOS hoymiles-MiT
Hoymiles launches 8-in-1 microinverter

Hoymiles sent word of a new 8-in-1 microinverter designed for industrial, commercial, and large residential projects. Microinverters are typ...

June 12, 2024
News Civic Renewables
Civic Renewables to build national network of local solar installers

Solar industry veterans, with financial backing from GEF Capital, are launching Civic Renewables to create a new business model to empower l...

June 12, 2024
eBOS Voltage
Voltage Clean Energy opens European office

Voltage Clean Energy has opened its new European office in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, providing customized, high-quality and cost-effective...

June 11, 2024
Projects Burns McDonnell Consumers Energy solar Michigan Muskegon Solar
Burns & McDonnell breaks ground on 297 MWdc Consumers Energy...

Consumers Energy is embarking on its first large-scale solar project. The utility tapped Burns & McDonnell to build the 297 MWdc (250MWa...

June 11, 2024
News solar money puzzle piece
Anza: Solar module prices hit a floor in Q2, and...

The solar industry has hit a solar module pricing floor, and prices are on their way back up across the entire industry. This claim comes vi...

June 11, 2024
News solar installer confidence
Loans on the comeback and six more Solar Industry Survey...

Customer acquisition, financing costs, permitting pitfalls and workforce woes are the top “barriers to success” for solar instal...

June 10, 2024
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K2 Systems promotes U.S. production of CrossRail, MiniRail solar systems

K2 Systems says two of its residential rooftop solar mounting and racking products (one of which is new) will be manufactured in the United ...

June 10, 2024