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Q&A: Sharp talks solar storage and SPI
We caught up with Kirk Stokes, director of sales at Sharp Electronics – Energy Systems and Services Group, to tell us more about why solar contractors should consider its storage system as an option...
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Ingeteam offers UL1741 compliance for the new 1500 Vdc central solar inverter
Ingeteam´s INGECON SUN PowerMax U B Series inverters are dimensionally just 111” x 35” x 80” inches; these inverters are able to supply up to a maximum power of 1,637 kVA in a single unit – making it...
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KACO new energy welcomes new investor, accelerates growth in key solar markets
KACO New Energy today announced that it has reached agreement end of July with the Sturm Holding out of Rhein–Main Area, Germany, to become shareholders and provide new capital to build upon KACO’s...
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GCube says needs to invest time and resources to increase its tolerance to risk
The solar PV industry will need to invest time and resources in order to increase its tolerance to risk, particularly for losses resulting from extreme weather conditions. This is according to research...
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Toshiba offers new energy management system for commercial applications
Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) announced the launch of the E1000 Series Energy Management System (EMS). The E1000 Series EMS is available with a 25 kW or 50 kW photovoltaic (PV) power...
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Aquion Energy, Schneider Electric and Azimuth Energy announce AC/DC hybrid...
Aquion Energy the manufacturer of Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) batteries and energy storage systems, Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, and Azimuth Energy, a...
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UGE to install solar at Brooklyn’s largest church
UGE International Ltd, a leader in renewable energy solutions for the commercial and industrial sector, today announces that it has secured a contract to build a 261 kW rooftop solar project for...
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ViZn Energy Systems zinc redox technology to be used for utility & commercial...
ViZn Energy Systems Inc. (ViZn), a leading provider of zinc and iron chemistry-based flow battery energy storage systems for utilities and microgrids, and The Ryan Company (an operating unit of Quanta...
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OutBack Power and HiQ Solar introduce ProHarvest line for commercial solar
OutBack Power Technologies, a leader in off-grid and Grid/Hybrid renewable energy products and systems, announced the next milestone in its partnership with HiQ Solar, an innovator in 3-phase...
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Solar industry celebrates Top 500 Solar Contractors at Las Vegas gala
Before the opening of the year’s biggest solar industry tradeshow, nearly 400 solar installers, developers, contractors and other industry professionals celebrated the best of the best at the Top 500...
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SEPA lays out blueprints to utility-solar industry collaboration at SPI
As Solar Power International (SPI) opens here with a focus on collaboration and innovation, the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) is releasing a new report aimed at providing utilities and...
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Experts discuss two big questions about residential solar during SPI forum
The distributed-generation market saw 121 policies and rate changes in the second quarter of 2016 alone, according to the NC Clean Energy Technology Center. In a market facing complex challenges daily,...
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Energy Department announces up to $107 million for solar projects and...
Today the Energy Department announced up to $107 million in new projects and planned funding in order to support America’s continued leadership in clean energy innovation through solar technology....
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Amicus Solar awarded SunShot funding for new solar O&M cooperative
Amicus Solar Cooperative, a member-owned purchasing cooperative, announced today that is has been awarded $358k from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative to found a new cooperative that...
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To further lower costs, solar module manufacturers turning to labor reductions
We’ve all seen the downward curve; if solar panel manufacturers manage to lower the cost of their product any further, they might as well be free. That’d be great for installers, but it’s proving to be...
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Quick Talk at SPI: The pros and cons of residential financing options
When it comes to financing for residential solar, data shows PPAs and leases are increasingly giving up market share to debt products, like solar loans. The implications of the transition are huge,...
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Eight things you may not know about the National Electric Code
Understanding the National Electric Code is crucial to building safe, successful solar projects. But sometimes it can be difficult to interpret. What kind of source material goes into the NEC anyway,...
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NREL to lead new consortium to improve reliability, performance of solar modules
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,...
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10 acres of vacant land in Detroit to become one of the largest U.S. urban...
DTE Energy started construction on one of the largest urban solar arrays in the United States. The project, targeted for completion by the end of 2016, will convert 10 acres of vacant and blighted land...
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U.S. government approves 100-MW solar project on tribal land in Nevada
As part of President Obama’s commitment to build strong, sustainable tribal communities and the Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs, U.S. Secretary of the Interior...
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