One of the many virtuous elements of the solar industry is how it has the potential to bring a community together. As an example, we look north to Strathcona Solar Initiatives, a multiple award-winning full service integrator in Eastern Ontario, that recently completed a 140-kW solar  installation on the Virginiatown Community Centre inRead More

Maybe the coolest, or most appropriate, aspect of Solar Power International this year was the location itself — the Anaheim Convention Center — which is maybe the most eco-friendly and solar-friendly in the country. (The uncoolest, or most ironic, aspect was the single morning of rain Anaheim will probably see allRead More

Solectria – A Yaskawa Company, a leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, announced that its SGI 750XTM, utility-scale PV inverters, have been chosen for the 18-MW Glynn Solar Farm in Brunswick, Ga., adjacent to the Golden Isles Airport. This project is one of many in the PV portfolio being built byRead More

SunEdison Inc. announced a partnership with BITHENERGY leading into SPI (obligatory SPI coverage link!) that will help Columbia, Md., to offset 100 percent of its energy use from renewable sources. Columbia now sources 75 percent of its energy from wind renewable energy credits, and 25 percent from a newly completed 2 MW DCRead More

Exosun, a major provider of solar tracking technologies for utility-scale, ground-mounted solar plants, has been selected by EDF energies Nouvelles, a global market leader in green electricity production, to equip two thirds of a 146 MWp PV plant in the Chilean Atacama desert with its trackers, and to provide aRead More

Indiana based Inovateus Solar was awarded the installation of a 2.5-MW AC, ground-mounted solar array project for Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) an operating unit of American Electric Power (AEP). The future site of the new I&M solar array is in Marion, Ind., adjacent to the company’s Deer Creek substation. GroundbreakingRead More

REC Solar, a U.S. commercial solar provider, has been ranked by PBN Research as the leading solar company in Hawaii by 2014 revenue. The company completed 14 commercial solar projects in Hawaii last year, accounting for nearly $55 million in revenue. REC Solar provides solar and energy-saving solutions to aRead More

  A new 500 kW solar project, built on a portion of 6.8 acres of previously unused land, is now operational in Richmond, R.I. The installation is the handy work of Nexamp, and the array will generate enough solar energy to power over 100 homes. “This is an exciting day forRead More

Affordable Solar and Smith’s Food & Drug Stores have completed another project together, this time installing the second largest rooftop solar system in Utah on a Smith’s Food & Drug Stores distribution center in Layton, Utah. This is the fourth time Affordable Solar, a N.M.-based company, has designed and installed a solarRead More