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November 27, 2023
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Projects CEP Renewables community solar landfill New Jersey
10 MW community solar landfill project in N.J. reaches completion
November 27, 2023
Projects standard-solar-enews
Standard Solar acquires 12 MW project portfolio in Va. to expand community solar footprint
November 20, 2023
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AHA Dream Homes in Austin, Texas, now a Tesla certified homebuilder
November 17, 2023
Projects Renewable Properties solar financing
Renewable Properties, other developers secure expansion capital | Solar Financing Spotlight
November 16, 2023
Products Enphase IQ8 microinverter
Enphase launches new IQ8 commercial microinverters in North America

Enphase Energy Inc. has unveiled its new IQ8 Commercial Microinverters, featuring the IQ8P-3P Microinverter, for the small commercial s...

November 16, 2023
Projects Terabase terafab automation solar
Terabase completes first commercial deployment of automated solar construction system

Terabase Energy completed the first commercial deployment of its automated field factory solution. Solar Builder previously reported on the ...

November 15, 2023
Projects Agrivoltaics Mechatron
Growing agrivoltaics: Conference harvests California, German know-how for farmland solar

Mechatron Solar’s new dual-axis AgriTracker at RE+ 2023. California and Germany are comparing notes on agrivoltaics development in an ...

November 15, 2023
Projects McCarthy apprenticeships solar Texas Arizona
McCarthy puts 200 new apprentices to work on four solar...

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has broken ground on four new large-scale solar projects in the U.S. Southwest. The company is targeti...

November 14, 2023
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DOE selects Generac, Sunrun, Sunnova for Puerto Rico Energy Resilience...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a slate of solar companies and nonprofits selected to install rooftop solar and battery storag...

November 13, 2023
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PVEL updates solar PV module quality testing

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), the renowned independent test lab for the downstream solar industry and member of the Kiwa Group, has upgraded the...

November 13, 2023
Sponsored Content Introducing NanoRack
SunModo is proud to introduce NanoRack™

SunModo proudly introduces NanoRack™. There isn’t any rail, but it’s unlike any other rail-free system on the market. Nano...

November 13, 2023
Projects solar database USPVDB
New interactive database provides details on large-scale solar projects

All large-scale solar energy facilities can now be found on a single map, thanks to the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of En...

November 9, 2023
Projects Veolia Arkansas solar waste treatment
Solar to enable Arkansas waste treatment facility to be fully...

Veolia North America and Today’s Power Inc. leaders break ground at the Gum Springs solar project site. From left: Jayver Luque,&...

November 9, 2023
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ReVision Energy acquires fellow New England solar installer Sunbug Solar

ReVision Energy, a New England-based full-service solar energy contracting company, is acquiring Massachusetts-based Sunbug Solar. The acqui...

November 9, 2023
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How and where nickel-hydrogen batteries beat lithium-ion in total cost...

Lithium-ion is the dominant energy storage chemistry in many renewable energy applications, but in larger-scale applications, it may not be ...

November 8, 2023
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Communication is the key to seamless solar sales

This piece was contributed by John Bumgarner, GM, solar and storage, at Mosaic. It was originally published in the Q3 issue of Solar Builder...

November 7, 2023
Projects PowerMarket Kingston Community solar
PowerMarket to manage 3.7 MW of community solar for LMI...

From left: Brad Tito, director of community energy, PowerMarket; Julie Noble, environmental education and sustainability coordinator, Kingst...

November 7, 2023
Projects Castillo RECON community solar illinois
Castillo, RECON join forces on 15 MW community solar portfolio...

Castillo Engineering and RECON Corp. have teamed up on a 15 MW portfolio of five community solar projects in Illinois. Part of the Illi...

November 7, 2023
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Report: China to retain 80% of global solar manufacturing capacity...

Despite local manufacturing policies in overseas markets, China’s expansion will dominate the global solar supply chain for the next f...

November 7, 2023