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APsystems C&I rooftop Making the case for microinverters in C&I solar
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November 29, 2022
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Moss debuts two-year solar Apprenticeship Program
November 28, 2022
News LONGI president and VP
LONGi breaks world record for silicon solar cell efficiency
November 28, 2022
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What IRA incentives are solar homeowners most interested in?
November 28, 2022
News Hydrite new solar array at its Visala
Hydrite adds on-site solar array via Kuubix Construction Group
November 28, 2022
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SEIA: Clarity needed in these areas to best implement IRA

The Inflation Reduction Act is law, and now the real fun begins — implementing it. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) file...

November 17, 2022
News tigo Hawaii
Tigo EI Residential Solution now HECO-approved

Tigo Energy‘s newly HECO-certified Tigo EI Residential Solar Solution is now available for the Hawaiian market. This includes a new 3....

November 17, 2022
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Greenbacker adds three New York community solar projects from ReneSola

Greenbacker Capital Management purchased three to-be-constructed community solar projects in New York from ReneSola Power Holdings. When com...

November 17, 2022
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240 solar companies call for rejection of anti-circumvention petition

With the Inflation Reduction Act celebrations over, the solar industry is back to focusing on the anti-circumvention trade case. The deadlin...

November 17, 2022
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SolaREIT closes solar lease deal with Massachusetts’ largest cranberry grower

SolaREIT, a solar real estate investment fund, has closed a lease purchase for more than 125 acres of land with 31.46 MW of solar. The deal,...

November 17, 2022
PV Modules 3Sun and Enel solar module production
U.S.-based solar cell manufacturing in the works via Enel North...

Enel’s 3Sun Gigafactory in Catania, Italy. The U.S. solar PV manufacturing announcements keep rolling in — and this time solar c...

November 17, 2022
News First Solar
First Solar plans fourth U.S. solar module manufacturing location

First Solar selected Lawrence County, North Alabama, as the location for its fourth U.S. photovoltaic (PV) solar module manufacturing facili...

November 17, 2022
News DEIJ-Certification-Awards-2022_Bronze
Esdec Solar Group earns bronze diversity, equity certification from SEIA...

Esdec Solar Group received Bronze certification through the Diversity Equity Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) Certification Program from the Sol...

November 17, 2022
+ Storage electrIQ-power
Electriq Power going public after TLG acquisition

Energy storage system integrator Electriq Power is being acquired by TLG Acquisition One Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisitio...

November 15, 2022
+ Storage Amptricity-12-KWh-Residential-v3.1
Solid state battery startup eyeing 4 GWh of home, C&I...

A manufacturer with a proprietary solid state battery technology is emerging from stealth mode this week with a plan to deliver up to 4 GW e...

November 15, 2022
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Pivot Energy develops onsite-offsite solar deal for affordable housing complex...

National commercial and community solar provider Pivot Energy is developing a little bit of both for an affordable housing complex being bui...

November 15, 2022
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New York PSC approves smart meter for National Grid that’s...

Widespread installation of distributed energy resources will require an upgrade in utility equipment. Grid-edge technology to ease behind-th...

November 14, 2022
News boviet solar vega series pv module
Black & Veatch completes assessment of Boviet’s Gamma and Vega...

Vega Series, bifacial module. Black & Veatch completed an independent assessment of Boviet Solar Technology‘s Gamma Series Monofac...

November 14, 2022
News DER-connections
FERC Order 2222 implementation ‘gaps’ present serious challenges, says Guidehouse...

In 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 2222 with the intent of opening regional transmission organization (RT...

November 14, 2022
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Code crisis averted: ICC ready to designate solar, storage as...

In a release of preliminary results on the 2024 ICC Building Code online governmental vote, the International Code Council’s (ICC) mem...

November 11, 2022