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April 12, 2023
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Financing strong solar financing
Solar customers can pre-qualify for Sunlight Financial loans in Demand IQ
April 11, 2023
Projects Longroad Foxhound Dominion
Dominion Energy to acquire Longroad’s 108 MW Foxhound Solar project
April 11, 2023
News solar-panel-recycling
Arrow Canyon solar panel recycling contract goes to Green Earth Recycle
April 11, 2023
Projects SolSmart logo
DOE SolSmart program expands to strengthen local solar energy markets
April 11, 2023
Projects Greenskies Brownstone rooftop
Greenskies installs 67 kW rooftop solar at Brownstone Intermediate School...

Greenskies Clean Focus has installed a solar photovoltaic (PV) system at Brownstone Intermediate School in Portland, Connecticut. The 67 kW ...

April 10, 2023
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Tesla’s Solar Roof is way off initial install goals, according...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk debuted the Tesla Solar Roof to much fanfare in 2016. Tesla aimed to manufacture 1,000 Solar Roofs per week by late 2019...

April 10, 2023
News SMA
SMA surpasses 20 GW of large-scale solar product installed in...

SMA America has surpassed 20 GW of large-scale solar installed in North America, a threshold that the company crossed near the end of 2022. ...

April 10, 2023
News gavel
CPUC dismisses Sunnova’s micro utility application

Sunnova had big plans to install and maintain solar + storage microgrids for new home developments in California. The national solar and bat...

April 10, 2023
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Summit Ridge Energy secures 1.2 GW of Qcells modules for...

Commercial solar company Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) signed a module supply agreement with Qcells last week that was announced with much more ...

April 10, 2023
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Convenience store turns refrigeration into ‘energy storage’ via Maplewell Energy

Energy management solutions provider Maplewell Energy successfully piloted a project using refrigerators for “energy storage” at...

April 10, 2023
Projects Dimmitt Chevrolet rooftop solar ESA
Florida-based Dimmitt Chevrolet activates 730 kW rooftop solar project with...

Dimmitt Chevrolet in Clearwater, Florida, has unveiled a new rooftop solar array, installed in partnership with ESA. The solar panels will p...

April 5, 2023
Projects Tate DSD Renewables Maryland
Tate Inc. installs 561.12 kW of rooftop solar at Maryland...

Tate Inc. and DSD Renewables have completed the installation of a 561.12 kW solar rooftop system at Tate’s facility in Jessup, Marylan...

April 5, 2023
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Overview of the dual-axis solar tracker market

Stracker Solar elevated dual-axis trackers at a TC Chevy dealership in Ashland, Ore. A great example of boosting solar project ROI at a spac...

April 5, 2023
Projects CVE community solar
CS Energy, CVE break ground on 22 MW portfolio of...

CS Energy and CVE North America have broken ground on a 22 MW portfolio of four community solar projects in western New York. CVE developed ...

April 4, 2023
Projects EDF Renewables
EDF Renewables signs agreement with Indiana Michigan Power for solar...

EDF Renewables North America has secured two agreements with Indiana Michigan Power (I&M), a subsidiary of American Electric Power ...

April 4, 2023
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Built Robotics promotes autonomous solar piling system

The construction autonomy innovators at Built Robotics, have unveiled the RPD 35, billing it as the world’s first fully autonomous sol...

April 3, 2023
News huasun
Huasun reports HJT module power record of 723+ Watts

From 710 W in June 2022, to 715 W in January 2023, and to a record setting 723.97 W just reported, Huasun keeps topping itself. Recently, ce...

April 3, 2023
News guardian
Guardian adds personal data tech to fall protection harnesses

Global height safety specialist Guardian announced a partnership with Twiceme Technology, to add a robust worker safety system to the new Gu...

April 3, 2023
News enteligent
Enteligent adds panel-level optimization to rapid shutdown device

The field of inverter-agnostic rapid shutdown devices that also offer panel-level optimization is small. The latest entrant in this category...

April 3, 2023