CAB Solar was awarded a second U.S. Patent for its Solar Cable Management System with Integrated Grounding. CAB’s newest patent is the ninth held by CAB for its innovative solar product line. Additional patents are pending with announcements expected in the coming months. The new CAB Patent provides broader protectionRead More

BENLEE, a leading roll-off trailer and lugger truck manufacturer in North America, has established new sustainability goals for 2020 and beyond. As part of those goals, the company had POWERHOME (another company that loves all-caps) install 404 roof-mounted solar panels on its corporate headquarters in Romulus, Mich. The addition of POWERHOME’sRead More

Following the recent announcement that SunPower, one of America’s largest solar-panel makers, is to exit from the manufacturing business, Mohit Prasad, Project Manager at GlobalData, a data and analytics company, offers sent us his view: that, even despite the tariffs, there might be more U.S. companies exiting the PV manufacturingRead More

The following is an excerpt from a whitepaper produced by TerraSmart. You can request to download the full version here. As the demand for renewable energy grows across North America, an increasing number of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) projects are being deployed in regions that experience severe winter conditions, including deepRead More

Sunverge, a provider of an industry-leading Distributed Energy Resource (DER) control and aggregation platform, is fully integrating its Sunverge Energy Platform and Infinity intelligent edge controller with the residential Energy Storage System (ESS) from LG Electronics. All of Sunverge’s advanced platform features are now supported and running with the LG ESSRead More

The NeoVolta NV14 has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC) as a certified energy storage system. To achieve the certification, the NV14 residential energy storage system had to meet or exceed a series of safety and performance standards. The CEC added energy storage systems to its Solar EquipmentRead More

KACO new energy has added five new C&I string inverters to its 1,500-volt product range with outputs between 87 and 150 kilowatts. All new inverters use semiconductor components made of silicon carbide. Since 1,500 Volt technology is an emerging trend in the solar roof sector, both inverters are also suitableRead More

Part IV of Solar Builder’s excellent Countdown to 2020 series about California’s new home solar mandate included this statement: “Speakers at the California Solar Power Expo… expect homebuilders to skip solar-only systems to comply with the Title 24 mandate and go straight to solar + storage systems.” Is that expectationRead More

Intersolar North America, the first major solar + energy storage event of 2020, will play host to a cool competition for solar and storage installers — the Solar Games. Applications to compete are open now through December 20, 2019, and interested teams can submit their information through this online form.Read More

Solaria Corp., a global provider of solar panels for the premium residential and commercial markets, appointed Bang Nguyen as Chief Operating Officer and Balaji Thirumalai as Chief Commercial Officer. Nguyen was most recently CEO at Zing Semiconductor, based in Shanghai. Thirumalai was previously Senior Vice President at Mindtree, heading theRead More