Sunvalley Solar Inc., a solar power technology and solar system integration company, announced today that it has been awarded a new 129.5-kW solar system installation contract from Amerifreight Inc in City of Industry, Calif. The 129.5-kW contract is for a system capable of generating 190,688 kWh of electrical power annually. TheRead More

Hartnell College and Chevron Energy Solutions announced today they have broken ground on a solar energy project that is expected to save the community college in Salinas, Calif., more than $11 million. The project will include over half a megawatt of solar PV generating capacity, and is expected to be completedRead More

Calling for “stable, reliable, well-structured tax policy,” the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has weighed into the tax reform debate by offering extensive insight and comments to the House Ways and Means Committee, which is tasked with overhauling the federal tax code. Today, solar is one of the fastest-growing industriesRead More

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and DOE’s Sandia National Laboratories extend their support for the truSolar Working Group’s efforts to develop uniform open source risk scoring standards and rating criteria for solar projects that will facilitate lower transaction and capital costs, and improve projectRead More

Krannich Solar USA is thrilled to announce their most recent and dedicated supply-partnership with Talesun Solar USA. Both companies are well-established overseas and plan to expand their experience with high-quality solar products across the United States. Talesun Solar USA built and operates the world’s largest, fully automated manufacturing facility (688,800Read More

IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today officially plugged-in the solar energy system installed at its distribution center in Perryville, Md. The 768,972-square-foot PV array consists of a 2,674.9-kW system, built with 18,576 panels, and is the state’s largest rooftop array. The IKEA distribution center will produce approximately 3,397,178Read More

Arizona Public Service Co. and AMEC, an international engineering and project management company, announced the completion of the first 17 MW of the Foothills Solar Power Plant — the fifth APS AZ Sun facility and the first ever solar project to be built on Arizona State Trust Land. The plantRead More

SunPower Corp. announced construction is underway on two solar power projects for Yolo County, Calif. The projects are expected to generate 5.8 MW of emission-free solar power for county facilities, worth an estimated $1.5 million in electricity costs the first year of operation. The projects include one array built at theRead More

ReneSola has been contracted to provide 7,200 of its 250-watt high-efficiency polycrystalline solar PV modules for a solar project to be built by S&C Electric Company, a Chicago-based provider of equipment and services for electric power systems, in Roswell, N.M., this year. “We understand the importance of picking our projectRead More

Georgetown University is going solar with SolarCity on a project that is expected to cut the school’s energy bills by tens of thousands of dollars and reduce more than 600,000 pounds of carbon pollution over its lifetime. The student-spearheaded initiative, Solar Street, installed 75 solar panels across rooftops of six university-ownedRead More