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Porsche Dealership Now Running on Solar Power
Kelly Pickerel
July 11, 2012
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Draker, AWS Team Up to Provide Solar Resource Assessments
July 11, 2012
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Intersolar North America Kicks Off to Record-Setting Crowd
July 10, 2012
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Fiera Axium Completes Acquisition of 45-MW Solar Power Portfolio
July 10, 2012
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Standard Solar Completes 1.5-MW Solar Array for Kent County
July 10, 2012
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CBD Energy to Act as EPC for Solar Energy Project...

CBD Energy Limited, a diversified renewable energy company, has signed its first solar PV installation contract in the United States. The pr...

July 10, 2012
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Add Another 977-kW Solar Array to IKEA’s Growing List

IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today officially plugged-in the solar energy system installed at its Detroit-area...

July 10, 2012
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NESL Unveils First Phase of Cummings Center 650-kW Solar Power...

NESL-USA, a solar PV provider, participated in the opening of an EPA Energy Star Certified model facility featuring NESL solar panels in Bev...

July 10, 2012
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Hertz Announces Two New Solar Power Installs

The Hertz Corp. announced the upcoming construction of two new solar installation sites this year as the initial launch of Phase Two of...

July 9, 2012
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SOLON Begins Construction on 460-kW Solar Power System in Arizona

SOLON Corp., a provider of turnkey solar power plants and PV products in the United States, today announced it has begun construction on a 4...

July 9, 2012
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SCHOTT Solar to Close New Mexico Manufacturing Plant

Story originally from New Mexico’s KOB-TV Channel 4. See original story here.   Solar power industry in New Mexico took a hit, an...

July 9, 2012
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Tioga Energy Completes Financing for 4.4-MW Solar Power Program

Tioga Energy, a leading provider of renewable energy services to commercial, government and non-profit organizations, today announced it has...

July 9, 2012
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IKEA Finishes Latest Solar Power Project in Houston

IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today officially plugged-in the solar energy system installed at its store in Hou...

July 9, 2012
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Hertz Installs 229-kW Solar Power System

The Hertz Corp. has completed the installation of a 229-kW PV solar system at their global headquarters building in Park Ridge, N.J. Ma...

July 9, 2012
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Schletter to Relocate North American Headquarters to East Coast

Schletter Inc., a worldwide leader in solar mounting systems, announced plans to relocate the company’s headquarters to the East Coast...

July 9, 2012
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Valos Solar and Gehrlicher Solar Join Together for Solar Energy...

Valos Solar Ventures and Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. today announced a strategic joint-development agreement focused on providing solar e...

July 9, 2012
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Fraunhofer Opens Outdoor Solar Panel Test Field

The Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) announced the official opening of OTF-1, its new PV outdoor test field, in Albuqu...

July 9, 2012
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Distributed Sun to Build 430-kW Solar Array for US Foods

Distributed Sun LLC (D-SUN), a D.C.-based commercial solar developer, owner and operator, platform service provider and profitable Solar Ene...

July 9, 2012
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Opportunities in Utility Construction Conference Set for Oct. 9-10 in...

While the decline in the housing market has had a profound effect on the utility construction industry over the last several years, there ar...

July 3, 2012
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Abound Solar to Suspend Operations, Will Seek Bankruptcy

By Christopher Martin and Jim Snyder of Bloomberg News Abound Solar Inc., a U.S. solar manufacturer that was awarded a $400 million U.S...

June 29, 2012