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SCHOTT Solar to Close New Mexico Manufacturing Plant
Kelly Pickerel
July 9, 2012
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Tioga Energy Completes Financing for 4.4-MW Solar Power Program
July 9, 2012
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IKEA Finishes Latest Solar Power Project in Houston
July 9, 2012
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Hertz Installs 229-kW Solar Power System
July 9, 2012
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Schletter to Relocate North American Headquarters to 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
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Schletter: All-Steel PV Mounting System

Schletter Inc., a leader in solar mounting systems, announces the release of the FS ECO, an all-steel ground mount system for PV application...

June 29, 2012
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Abound Solar Closing; Increased Competition to Blame

GTM Research and Greentech Media learned this morning that Abound Solar will be shutting its doors as soon as June 28 after failing to find ...

June 29, 2012
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Sixteen Solar Power Projects Underway in San Jose, California

The City of San Jose and SolarCity, a national leader in clean energy products and services, have completed the first of a series of 16 sola...

June 28, 2012
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PsomasFMG Installs Five Solar Power Systems in Orange County, Calif.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Peace Officer Training Facility was the host site for today’s flip-the-switch cel...

June 28, 2012
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Kyocera to Offer NABCEP, IREC Solar Energy Training

Kyocera Solar Inc., a leading supplier of reliable solar modules and renewable energy, today announced yet another reason to choose Kyocera:...

June 28, 2012
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Emerson Inverters to Power 70 MW of California Solar Energy...

Emerson today announced it will supply utility-scale power inverters for two solar energy projects in California with capacity to produ...

June 28, 2012
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Washington Gas Energy Systems to Build Three Solar Arrays for...

Washington Gas Energy Systems Inc. today announced it has signed a contract with Caroline County Public Schools and Kenyon Energy to build, ...

June 28, 2012
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O2 Energies Commissions 1.5-MW Sandy Cross Solar Farm in North...

The sunshine that produces juicy muscadine grapes 11 miles southwest of Rocky Mount, N.C., will now produce enough electricity to power near...

June 27, 2012
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IKEA Powers-Up 967-kW Solar Energy System at Orlando Store

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

June 27, 2012
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Southern Sky Renewable Energy Building 5.75-MW Solar Array on Massachusetts...

JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd., a global solar power product manufacturer, today announced the company will supply its modules to a 5.75-MW arr...

June 26, 2012