The only thing standing in the way of solar energy, on most days, are clouds. Until we can develop some sort of weather-controlling machine like villains in horrible movie adaptations of comic books, the best defense against a cloudy day is a better forecast of those clouds. Thanks to theRead More

Draker Corporation, a global provider of data management, analytics and control systems for distributed power generation and a subsidiary of BlueNRGY Group Limited, announced its new generation data acquisition and control systems for connecting solar power plants with Draker’s monitoring and analytics platform. The new systems will be available forRead More

The EasySolar app wants to change the way solar reps and designers approach project management, PV design and proposal generation beyond the walls of an office. Imagine you have a lot of meetings during the day. You need to quickly find a specific project after a phone call but you’reRead More

APsystems this week unveiled an all-new version of ArrayApp, its powerful installer mobile application. ArrayApp is designed to streamline APsystems microinverter installations, letting installers complete the entire customer registration and microinverter array mapping process during or after the project installation. New features include a highly intuitive graphical user interface, gateway connectionRead More

Clean Energy Collective (CEC), a community solar solutions provider, just entered into a long-term licensing agreement with Renovus Solar that will provide the Ithaca, N.Y.-based solar developer access to CEC’s Community Solar Platform (CSP), the comprehensive suite of software and services that enable efficient community solar program design, implementation, and operation. ThisRead More

Open Energy announced a partnership with kWh Analytics, a leading risk management software for solar energy investments. The partnership will allow Open Energy customers to view aggregated performance metrics across their asset portfolios while benchmarking this data against an entire network of projects. “Data aggregation is crucial for standardizing solarRead More

BayWa r.e.’s subsidiary BayWa r.e. Solar Systems LLC recently introduced its new r.e.Connect Partner Program. In creating an innovative program, BayWa r.e. worked directly with installers in its partner network to discover the biggest challenges in a solar installation company’s daily operations. Popular benefits are co-op funds for marketing materials,Read More

AlsoEnergy, a provider of monitoring and SCADA solutions for solar power systems, maintained its spot as the top-selling Independent Software Vendor (ISV) for commercial and industrial PV in the Americas according to the Global PV Monitoring 2016-2020 report published by GTM Research. AlsoEnergy is now the top selling solar monitoring ISV overall inRead More

  Solarrus Corp., an independent service provider in the North American solar, electric vehicle and battery energy storage industries, acquired Power Factors — a provider of hardware-agnostic software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for performance monitoring, asset management and optimization. This acquisition gives Solarrus a software platform for monitoring and managing renewable energy assets. Power Factors co-founders SteveRead More

Data unlocks understanding, and those who control data collection and analysis can wield considerable power. Data is a big part of evaluating PV performance and cost, but the industry still has a lot to discover and figure out (this is apparent when utilities and regulators discuss how to value distributedRead More