Canadian Solar Inc. won three solar power contracts with Alberta’s Ministry of Infrastructure, for a total of 94 megawatts (MWp) of solar power system in southeast Alberta, with an average contracted PPA price of $48.05 (Canadian dollars) per megawatt-hour. When in operation, these solar plants will provide 55 percent ofRead More

Canadian Solar is unveiling a new module at Solar Power International (booth 1604) that combines three innovative solar PV technologies in one new 400+ Watt module: the latest black silicon, poly PERC, and bifacial cell technologies. Called BiHiKu, this new poly solar module generates 400 Watts or more on theRead More

Canadian Solar’s wholly owned subsidiary Recurrent Energy finalized the sale of three Southern California solar projects totaling 235 MWac to The Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), South Korea’s largest electric utility with an installed capacity of 79 GW. The acquired assets are located in the Astoria (100 MWac), Astoria 2Read More

Southern Power, the wholesale subsidiary of Southern Company, has acquired the 20 MWac/28 MWp Gaskell West 1 Solar Facility, located in southern California in Kern County, via Recurrent Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. “We are pleased to partner with an energy industry leader like Southern PowerRead More

Recurrent Energy LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar, signed a 20-year power purchase agreement  for 45 MWac of solar power with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), the fifth largest public transit network in the country and one of the largest consumers of electric power in Northern California. The BARTRead More

HelioPower completed two commercial PV systems at a state-of-the-art Southern California sports center in Ladera Ranch. The 63,000 sq-ft gym now sports a 343 kW system optimized with SolarEdge’s DC optimized inverter solution, coupled with the PredictEnergy Commercial Energy Management System. This represents a significant milestone in Ladera’s sustainability programRead More

The following perspective was shared with us via Financialbuzz.com Over the course of the last several years the solar industry has finally gone mainstream. A recent research published on December 12, 2016 by The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) shows how much progress has been made. The U.S. installed 4,143Read More

Canadian Solar Inc. came in ranked as the No. 1 module supplier in terms of module quality and price/performance ratio in IHS Markit’s independent PV Module Customer Insight Survey 2016. Survey respondents also ranked Canadian Solar as the #1 most purchased brand and #1 most recommended brand of solar modules. HighRead More

Canadian Solar announced that its new solar module manufacturing in Sorocaba, Brazil, is ready to go. The new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will be Brazil’s largest, with 380 MW annual capacity of made in Brazil solar modules. The official inauguration of this state-of-the-art new solar module facility was attended by the distinguishedRead More

Levee Mount Category: Ground-Mount (C&I) Delano, Calif. | 522 kW The agricultural segment has a conundrum when it comes to adding solar: it could benefit greatly from the power generation, but dedicating too much land for a sizable enough project will cut too deeply into its revenue. Wasting productive landRead More