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July 24, 2023
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SumoQuote can quote roofing and solar jobs via EagleView TrueDesign
July 20, 2023
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Enact Home app adds ‘percent paid off’ calculation for solar, storage owners
July 20, 2023
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Jigar Shah, Bernadette Del Chiaro to keynote Aurora’s Empower event
July 20, 2023
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Terabase raises $25M to accelerate digital, automation solutions
July 20, 2023
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Sarcos, Blattner agreement focuses on autonomous solar construction system

Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corp. and Blattner Co. have entered into a collaboration agreement to improve solar jobsite au...

July 20, 2023
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ESA helps Orlando car dealership to go solar

An Orlando, Florida-based Subaru dealership is looking to save about 60% on its electricity costs with a 395 kW solar array.   Don Meal...

July 20, 2023
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Powur adds SPAN panel and EV charger to platform

Virtual residential solar company, Powur PBC keeps expanding the product portfolio available via its cloud-based platform, this week adding ...

July 20, 2023
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Energix places its largest PV procurement order with First Solar

Energix Renewables has agreed to procure 5 GWdc of First Solar thin film solar modules for projects in Israel, Poland, and the United States...

July 19, 2023
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Nine major solar PV manufacturers standardize on module size

The size of PV technology is a point of innovation and frustration. PV manufacturers pursue larger cell, wafer and/or frame sizes to pack in...

July 19, 2023
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Franklin Home Power added to Powur platform

As the 43rd fastest-growing private company in America (Inc. 5000) and the fastest-growing national residential solar company, Powur PBC is ...

July 19, 2023
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Post-NEM planning: How solar + storage can be a better...

Battery storage systems are more than just home energy backup – they can also back up your solar installation business. David Dunlap, ...

July 19, 2023
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Canadian Solar energy storage training course achieves NABCEP certification

Canadian Solar’s installation training course has been certified by NABCEP, marking another milestone in helping installers to up...

July 19, 2023
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Greenskies energizes 3 MW of solar for N.J. public school...

Greenskies Clean Focus has completed 10 solar systems totaling 3 MW for the Township of Union Public Schools in New Jersey. The energy gener...

July 19, 2023
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Benefits (and tradeoffs) of large-format PV modules

This is an excerpt from the Q2 2023 issue of Solar Builder magazine, written by Cherif Kedir, president and CEO at the Renewable Energy Test...

July 18, 2023
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Turning dead land, unused space into revenue with solar partnerships

Many developers and property owners end up with sections of land that can’t be developed. Referred to as “dead land,” thes...

July 17, 2023
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Revolve reaches interconnection milestone on 250 MW solar+storage project in...

Revolve Renewable Power Corp. has completed an interconnection milestone for 250 MW Parker Solar and Storage Project in La Paz County, Arizo...

July 14, 2023
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DSD, Black Bear Energy break ground on 1.7 MW of...

DSD Renewables and Black Bear Energy have broken ground on two solar canopy installations totaling 1.7 MW in southern California with real e...

July 13, 2023
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Details on SunModo’s SKU-reducing metal roof mounts from The Pitch

Mounting solar on metal roofs often requires many product SKUs to match the variety of metal roof profiles — but there might be a bett...

July 13, 2023
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Indiana-based NIPSCO adds 465 MW in solar projects as part...

Northern Indiana’s top utility company has energized its first two large-scale solar power projects, adding more than 450 MW of electr...

July 12, 2023