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America’s Oldest Private Mint Now Uses Solar Power
Kelly Pickerel
February 21, 2012
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Eldorado Coffee Roasters Installs 420-kW System
February 16, 2012
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Solar Carport Completed at New Jersey Meadowlands Commission Headquarters
February 15, 2012
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IKEA Powers-up Solar Project at Maryland Store
February 15, 2012
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Mercury Solar Systems Completes 3.6-MW Project in New Jersey
February 13, 2012
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Tennessee Food Bank to Save Costs with 200-kW Rooftop Install

Phoenix Solar Inc. and Silicon Ranch Corp. today announced plans to build a 200-kW solar system on the roof of the Second Harvest ...

February 13, 2012
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SolarMax Technology Completes Hotel Project in New Jersey

SolarMax Technology Inc. recently completed a 756-kW PV solar carport system at the Wyndham Mt. Laurel Hotel in New Jersey. “A hotel o...

February 10, 2012
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Rainwise: PVmet Solar Energy Efficiency Monitor

Rainwise has recently released the PVmet Solar Energy Efficiency Monitor, a weather station specifically designed to improve accurate m...

February 9, 2012
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Space and Naval Warfare Complex Gets 1.3-MW Rooftop System

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) complex, a headquarters for high-tech military command, communications and surveillance...

February 9, 2012
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Aztec Solar Acquires Solahart Services

Aztec Solar Inc. recently acquired Solahart Services of Stockton, Calif. Aztec Solar, a Sacramento-based residential and commercial solar co...

February 9, 2012
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Canadian Solar and HelioPower Complete 516-kW System for California Vineyard

Canadian Solar Inc., HelioPower and Giumarra Vineyards Corporation announced the successful completion of a 516-kW comme...

February 9, 2012
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1.13-MW Array to Power Mushroom Crop

Mushrooms do not normally need much help from the sun, but nearly 5,000 solar panels have popped up alongside buildings that house white but...

February 9, 2012
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New Jersey American Water Installing Two Solar Fields at Water...

Using solar power to treat blue and as a result save some green, New Jersey American Water is becoming more environmentally friendly by inst...

February 8, 2012
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SolarCraft Completes 321-kW Installation at Medtronic Santa Rosa Campus

Novato and Sonoma-based SolarCraft recently completed the design and installation of a 321-kW solar electric installation at the main Santa ...

February 8, 2012
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Aqua America Finishes Fourth Solar Farm to Help Power Water...

Aqua America Inc. Chief Financial Officer David P. Smeltzer said its utility operations are making deliberate steps into the alternativ...

February 8, 2012
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California Children’s Foster Center Goes Solar with 496-kW System

GreenVolts Inc., provider of the industry’s first and only complete and fully integrated solar system, is proud to join McKinley Child...

February 8, 2012
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Clean Control Corp. Installs 150-kW Array in Georgia

Green Power EMC, the largest renewable energy provider in Georgia, continues to grow its energy portfolio with the addition of a 150-kW sola...

February 6, 2012
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Siemens to Install U.S. Army’s Largest Solar PV System

Siemens Government Technologies Inc. announced today that the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center has awarded a $16.8 million task orde...

February 2, 2012
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1-MW System Powered Up at Chattanooga Airport

Suniva Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that it is powering a 1-MW ...

February 2, 2012
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California Transportation Group Installs 2.1 MW at Bus Parking Canopies

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in partnership with SunPower Corp., Joint Venture Silicon Valley and Wells Fargo, ins...

February 2, 2012