The largest community solar project in Tompkins County, New York, has been completed and is fully operational and ready to provide 373 households, as well as a local church, with 2.3-MW of solar. The project also complements “Southern Tier Soaring,” the region’s comprehensive strategy to generate robust economic growth andRead More

The Solar Rating & Certification Corporation (ICC-SRCC), a program of the ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), has awarded Ridged Systems a certification for several configurations of its innovative Fire and Ice solar hot water systems. The ICC-SRCC OG-300 Solar Thermal System Certification Program certifies that hot water systems demonstrated compliance withRead More

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New York is at an important juncture in its Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) development as a working group is currently assessing proposals for mass market rate design, two of which include demand charges. Considering the whole point of REV is to build toward a distributed future, this raised ourRead More

Out in Arizona, home of the demand charge, the Arizona Corporation Commission rejected a request by two utilities to subject new solar customers to large monthly fixed charges. As part of their recent rate cases, Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) and UNS Electric sought a monthly Grid Access Charge andRead More

Sunrun Inc. is expanding its low- and moderate-income solar offering plans to develop a minimum of 100 MW of solar on affordable multi-family housing — in which 80 percent of tenants fall below 60 percent of the area median income — over the next decade in California. Sunrun’s commitment, whenRead More

The U.S. solar market felt the negative impact of the #TrumpTariffs as installed capacity decreased year over year (- 9 percent) and quarter over quarter (- 7 percent) in Q2 2018 despite decreases in component pricing. But fear not, because the data is pointing to a market turnaround. According toRead More

Wider, transparent access to utility data will be crucial for growing the solar industry, and Urjanet, already a leader in utility data aggregation, is making things even easier for solar installers with its new Urjanet Solar Quickstart program. This suite of web-based tools streamline the link between customer utility accountsRead More

Nautilus Solar Energy has acquired a second 13.3 MW community solar portfolio developed by ReneSola that also qualifies under Xcel Energy‘s rapidly expanding community solar program in Minnesota. The portfolio is expected to be built through the remainder of 2018, coming online during Q1 2019. Nautilus, through its full-service platform,Read More

The future of solar and energy storage will collide with the future of home automation and Sonnen is getting ahead of the game with the launch of energy automation with ecoLinx at Solar Power International this year (booth 3820). The all-in-one ecoLinx smart energy management system brings together home automation,Read More