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partnership agreement Sunlight, Solar Insure partner on 30-year warranty, monitoring deal for solar installations
Chris Crowell
May 25, 2023
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Projects IEA World Energy Investment report
Global solar investment to outpace upstream oil in 2023 at $380 billion
May 25, 2023
Policy congress
Solar tariff moratorium remains as House fails veto override attempt
May 25, 2023
Projects Reclaimed KY coal mine sees sun rise web
Reclaimed Kentucky coal mine sees sun shining on new solar PPA with Toyota
May 24, 2023
Projects Syncarpha Capital GEMS landfill solar ASCE
It’s a major award: GEMS landfill PV solar plant in N.J. named 2023 Project of the Year winner
May 24, 2023
Projects Arevon Eagle Shadow Mountain solar
Arevon completes 300 MW Eagle Shadow Mountain solar plant in...

Arevon Energy Inc. has completed its 300 MW Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar Plant in Clark County, Nevada. Located on the Moapa River Indian Res...

May 24, 2023
News PVEL 2023 Scorecard
Record number of modules named Top Performers in PVEL’s Module...

PVEL’s 2023 PV Module Reliability Scorecard PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), an independent test lab for the downstream solar industry, publi...

May 24, 2023
Projects Lightsource solar farm indiana verizon
Lightsource bp energizes 152.5 MW solar farm in Indiana with...

Lightsource bp has begun commercial operation of its 152.5 MWac / 173 MWdc Bellflower Solar project, located about 40 miles east of Indianap...

May 24, 2023
Projects Solar_Panels
Aggreko ETS teams with Farmers Powering Communities on solar initiative

Aggreko is partnering with a farming consortium on a 500 MW community solar initiative. The company’s Energy Transition Solutions...

May 23, 2023
Projects Aspen Power rooftop multifamily
Aspen Power completes rooftop solar project for new multifamily apartments...

Distributed generation provder Aspen Power has completed its initial solar project with The Michaels Organization, a national leader in resi...

May 23, 2023
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Savant acquires energy storage tech company POMCube

Smart home and load management system provider Savant Systems is expanding fully into energy storage systems by acquiring POMCube. “As...

May 23, 2023
Projects ESA solar farm central Florida
ESA completes first phase of 3.6 MW solar project in...

ESA has finished the first phase of a new 3.6 MW solar project in Central Florida. This three-phase solar farm project is part of the compan...

May 22, 2023
News orgiami solar
Origami Solar closer to commercializing steel frame for solar panels

Origami Solar, developers of a patent-pending steel frame for solar modules that won the American Made Solar Prize in 2022, announced its Ge...

May 22, 2023
News Panasonic HIT panels
Panasonic promotes 12 companies in Installer Program

Panasonic announced the promotion of seven Elite and five Premium level authorized solar installers, expanding the number of homeowners who ...

May 22, 2023
News qcells office in us
Qcells invests in tandem solar cell R&D and production line

Qcells is investing $100 million to accelerate the commercialization of perovskite-based tandem cells. This is a next-generation solar cell ...

May 22, 2023
News home solar
Ohm Analytics: Residential solar growth in Q1 led by California...

Ohm Analytics sent over highlights from its Q1 2023 distributed generation market report. The U.S. residential solar market experienced 21% ...

May 22, 2023
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Notes from NABCEP: How to train and build a resilient...

Shawn O’Brien, President and CEO of NABCEP, during the opening session. The NABCEP Continuing Education Conference is the best place t...

May 22, 2023
News Enel North America Factory
Enel selects Oklahoma for solar PV cell and module production

The over 2 million square foot, 3 GW factory represents a planned investment in excess of 1 billion USD, creating over 1,800 construction jo...

May 22, 2023
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Polar Racking adds two U.S. manufacturing facilities

North American solar mounting solutions provider Polar Racking is riding the U.S. solar manufacturing wave and adding two U.S. facilities st...

May 19, 2023
Projects Wisconsin solar project award
Wisconsin solar project wins award for sustainable infrastructure

A 150 MW solar installation in Saratoga, Wisconsin, has was earned a sustainability award from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure ...

May 18, 2023