Ameresco Inc, an energy efficiency and renewable energy company, joined U.S. Army leadership and federal, state, and local officials for a ribbon cutting celebration to mark the completion of the large-scale 18.6-MW dc (15.0 MW ac) renewable energy solar facility located at the U.S. Army Garrison Fort Detrick Army installationRead More

SolarWorld is supplying 17.5 MW of its high-efficiency 72-cell solar panels for a project that the Valley Electric Association (VEA) is undertaking in the Mojave Desert town of Pahrump, west of Las Vegas near the Nevada border with California. The project will comprise 51,562 340-watt modules made in SolarWorld’s expanding factoryRead More

Baker Electric Solar, a San Diego-based solar company and SunPower Elite Dealer, received the SunPower “Residential National Top Producer of the Year” award for its outstanding sales performance as a SunPower dealer in 2015. The awards were announced at a recent SunPower dealer conference in Chandler, Ariz. “Earning the 2015Read More

Applied Energy Technologies (AET), a supplier of commercial and utility-scale racking systems, was selected to supply the racking for BayWa r.e.’s first three solar installations in the United States. The projects total 6.9 MW and are located in Selma, Newton Grove and Smithfield, N.C. AET is providing its Rayport- GRead More

Renusol America, a provider of solar PV mounting solutions with systems installed across the U.S., has provided its “one size fits all” Renusol VS mounting system with pre-assembled components for the 200-kW solar power installation on the rooftop of Niner Estate Winery’s tasting room and restaurant in Paso Robles, Calif.Read More

NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, plans to continue a project to build, own and operate approximately 17 MW of solar facilities on three separate military installations on Oahu. “The Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy have set aggressive goals for the use of renewable energy sourcesRead More

The U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) and REC Solar announced the interconnection of two solar energy carports totaling 280 kW at USAR offices in Arizona and California. The solar arrays support the Department of Defense’s (DoD) mandate of procuring 25 percent of its total facility energy from renewable sources by 2025.Read More

Southern Co. subsidiary Southern Power is on the move again, acquiring a controlling interest in the 157-MW Roserock solar facility – the company’s first solar project in Texas – from Recurrent Energy, one of North America’s largest solar developers. The latest addition to one of America’s largest renewable portfolios, the facility is beingRead More

In one of the largest solar projects undertaken in North Carolina, Google will benefit from Duke Energy Carolinas’ Green Source Rider program – meeting a portion of the power demand from the company’s data center in Lenoir with solar energy. A 61-MW solar project will be constructed in Rutherford County in DukeRead More

  Array Technologies, Inc. (ATI) just completed a huge tracking system as part of a 71 MW AC project, called Red Horse 2, which combines wind and solar is expected to provide power for 13,500 Arizona homes. The plant generates energy from Vestas V110 wind turbines and 75 MW DC of Jinko solarRead More