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Tips to meet solar customer demand during peak selling season

Summer is a busy time for solar installers. In fact, for companies operating in states that are heavily impacted by winter weather, the mont...

August 22, 2022
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Solar e-commerce site Project Solar nets $23M investment to sell...

Trevor Hiltbrand and Matthew Smith, with backgrounds in e-commerce and tech startups, set out to disrupt the solar industry by cutting out c...

August 15, 2022
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Colossus launches solar leads marketplace

Quality solar leads can be tough to obtain, which is one reason customer acquisition costs for solar installers are consistently high. Colos...

August 8, 2022
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Aurora Solar looks to improve customer leads, project proposals with...

Aurora Solar has added artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that bolster every aspect of the solar sales, marketing and design process for...

July 19, 2022
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SolarReviews expands into home remodeling with addition of Fixr.com

SolarReviews.com, a consumer information website for the residential solar industry, acquired Fixr.com and FIXR NETWORKS SLU, its Spanish su...

July 11, 2022
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Delaware is offering free solar installations for low-income homeowners

Low- to moderate-income homeowners who qualify can get help with the cost of installing solar panels through a new two-year pilot program fr...

June 30, 2022
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How to run a financially healthy solar installation business

On this episode of Power Forward, we get a crash course in solar installer financial health. What are “healthy” installers doing...

June 28, 2022
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Orlando apartments demonstrate new shared solar hardware solution SolShare

Multifamily buildings and rental communities can be tough candidates for solar in terms of a design and ROI that works for each stakeholder....

June 28, 2022
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RatedPower can now design AC-coupled battery storage plans for utility-scale...

Solar PV design software company RatedPower surveyed more than 100 solar industry professionals concerning their future outlook for its Rene...

June 27, 2022
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Solar + storage + wind? Semtive debuts wind turbine for...

Solar installer business models are diversifying into all sorts of smart energy verticals — battery storage, EV chargers, energy effic...

June 27, 2022
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Dominion Energy to guide home solar installs in Virginia via...

Dominion Energy launched a rooftop solar program for residential customers throughout Virginia called BrightSuite. The goal of BrightSuite i...

June 22, 2022
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N.C. Supreme Court rules against HOAs that prevent home solar...

Via Energy News Network: In a case that could impact thousands of planned developments across North Carolina, the state Supreme Court on Fri...

June 22, 2022
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Companies of all kinds are expanding into residential solar —...

As solar gets installed at more homes and enters the mainstream, companies of all sorts are jumping into the market to provide ancillary or ...

June 21, 2022
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Capitalize on ‘solar high season’ this summer with AI-powered proposals

Some problems are good to have. Such is the case with selling solar once Memorial Day rolls around — homeowners emerge from a long win...

June 20, 2022
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Sunnova teams with Maryland’s Montgomery County Green Bank on LMI...

Sunnova Energy International and Montgomery County Green Bank (MCGB) are partnering on an offer to help low-to-moderate income (LMI) househo...

June 16, 2022
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Power plays: Does Hawaii show the way forward in the...

Net metering has recently taken state legislatures and media headlines by storm — and for good reason. The average American homeowner ...

June 16, 2022
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Lumin pilots demand response program to pay customers for reducing...

Energy prices are soaring, net metering is under fire, and solar + storage system owners could use all the financial incentives they can get...

June 15, 2022
News solar worker success
Automated solar permitting effort aligns with International Building Codes, says...

The International Code Council has determined that the Solar Automated Permit Processing Platform (SolarAPP+) aligns with the 2018 Internati...

June 13, 2022
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Due to community concerns, Origis Energy agrees to relocate Sand...

Solar projects on a community’s land / in a community need buy-in from that community. For the Sand Bluff Solar Project, collaboration...

June 9, 2022
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Greenbacker invests in Sunrock DG to boost C&I solar financing...

Through its Development Opportunities Fund I, Greenbacker invested in Sunrock Distributed Generation, a financing and asset aggregation plat...

June 9, 2022