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Top Solar Technologies (Monitoring, Operations & Maintenance, Services, Site...
From charge controllers to switches, even the small parts matter when it comes to solar. Choosing quality components can have a big impact on the life and bankability of your solar project. Here’s a...
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Swinerton Awarded EPC Contracts For 40MW Of California PV Projects
Duke Energy Renewables has granted turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to Swinerton Renewable Energy for its Pumpjack and Wildwood PV projects in Bakersfield, Calif. Duke...
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Can These Three Smart-Grid Startups Ease Solar’s Integration?
By Gretchen Fitzgibbons, Special to Solar Power World When you think of smart-grid developments, your thoughts turn immediately to solar integration or metering debates. But you should be including...
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Moapa Paiute Tribe, LADWP And First Solar Start 250MW Project
From RIGHT to left) Moapa Band of Paiutes Chairwoman Aletha Tom joins First Solar CEO James Hughes, LADWP director of power system planning and development Randy Howard, and the Moapa Band of Paiutes...
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Enclosures: Simply Essential To Your Solar Project
By Bill DeRoche, Allied Moulded Products The basic premise of an enclosure is simple – it is a cabinet to store electrical components to prevent shock to users and to protect the contents from the...
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Canadian Solar Completes Sale of Solar Power Plant to BluEarth
The Little Creek 8.5 MW AC solar power plant is located in the town of Napanee, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Solar recently sold the project to Blue Earth Renewables. Canadian Solar, a global solar...
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An EPC Can Help Make Your Solar Project A Reality
By Michael Kraft, Ulteig Building a solar installation is your dream, not only generating power for your customers, but moving you to the forefront of an energy revolution. However, you’re asking...
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Fronius Donates Solar Inverters To Trade Students
Pictured is Director of Solar Energy Thomas Enzendorfer with the donated inverters and students. Electrical engineering vocational students at the Porter County Career and Technical Center (PCCTE)...
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Efficiency Agreements Save Cities And Businesses Up To 70%
Worried about increasingly expensive electricity bills and incentivized by California’s new energy storage mandate, cities and businesses across California are turning to intelligent energy storage...
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SunPower Corp. Sells More Than 70 MW In Cell Packages For Two Projects
These packages will be used for the first phase of two SunPower C7 Tracker projects, which includes a 20-MW project in Saihan and a 100-MW project in Wuchuan. Both are located in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia...
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Solar Offsets Farm’s Cold Storage Facility
REC Solar, commercial solar electric system designer and installer, has completed a 1-MW solar energy system for Vignolo Farms. Located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Vignolo Farms will offset 75%...
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Exosun Inks First Contract In North America And Expands Manufacturing To The...
Exosun, a leading provider of solar tracking technologies and associated engineering services, has announced that its Exotrack HZ product will maximize power generation for a 30-MWAC solar electric...
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Trina Solar Attains Anti-PID Mark For All Self-Produced Solar PV Cells
Trina Solar, a global photovoltaic (PV) modules, solutions, and services, announced that all solar PV cells produced by the company have achieved anti-PID (Potential-Induced Degradation) ability...
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Axitec Solar Modules Pass IEC Sandstorm Test
AXITEC Solar announced all its modules successfully passed the sandstorm test according to IEC 60068-2-68, LC2. AXITEC Solar announced all its modules successfully passed the sandstorm test according...
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The Pros Of Power Optimizers And Smart Modules In Solar Projects
Photo courtesy of SolarEdge The module-level power electronics (MLPE) market is one of the fastest growing segments in the PV industry, rapidly moving beyond niche status to become a crucial component...
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SMA Named One Of Most Innovative Companies Transforming The Power Sector
SMA has received the inaugural Grid Edge 20 Award by Greentech Media, which recognized it as one of the most innovative companies leading the charge into grid edge modernization. Grid Edge 20 is a...
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Clean Energy Collective To Expand Community Solar Across Massachusetts
Signifying its entry into the Massachusetts market, Clean Energy Collective (CEC), a community-owned solar developer, purchased two medium scale solar projects from Massachusetts-based BlueWave...
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Tigo Energy Supports Students In European Solar Decathlon
Tigo Energy, smart module company, supports team Techstyle Haus in the 2014 European Solar Decathlon competition. The team is a collaboration between Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design and...
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Q1 Solar PV Demand Exceeds 9 GW
New solar PV demand added during the first quarter of 2014 exceeded 9 GW, which was 35% more than the previous first-quarter record set last year. In fact, every quarter in 2014 is forecast to reach...
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A Conveyor System Especially For Solar
Glide-Line offers a versatile multi-strand panel and pallet-handling conveyor solution available for PV panel handling technology that takes in consideration the demands of the solar industry....
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