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Blue Oak Energy completes solar rooftop system near Oakland International...
Blue Oak Energy and Sun Air Solar announces the completion of a 259-kWdc rooftop solar PV system atop a facility occupied by Abbott’s diabetes care business and the Federal Aviation Administration...
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sPower finishes first 10-MW solar project for California city
Marking yet another milestone in its journey toward Zero Net Energy status, today the City of Lancaster, California, and sPower, an independent energy producer, announced that the Western Antelope Dry...
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Prairie Gold installs 1-MW Stion solar system in Puerto Rico
Electricity can be costly and unreliable in the Caribbean, where resources for energy are limited. In Puerto Rico, 80% of the island’s electricity is generated by burning oil. The sun is prolific in...
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Trina Solar hits new efficiency record of 22.61% for mono c-Si solar cells
Trina Solar Limited announced that its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China set a new world conversion efficiency record of 22.61% for a high-efficiency p-type mono-crystalline...
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Most read Solar Power World stories from 2016
It wouldn’t be a proper 2016 sendoff without a look back on what we accomplished this past year. We’ve witnessed the industry thrive in the face of ITC-extension and big names bring more public...
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8minutenergy, Swinerton commission 155-MW solar project for Los Angeles Dept....
8minutenergy Renewables and D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), which, with its affiliates, owns and manages approximately 1.3 GW of renewable energy assets in North America, announced the...
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Jamaica’s national executive office to go solar with 15-kW system
Caribbean nations may make the ideal market for solar energy. They have some of the highest electricity prices in the world, rely heavily on imported fuel for conventional generation, suffer from a...
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Green Mountain Power first U.S. utility to help customers go off-grid with...
Green Mountain Power announced it is the first utility in the nation to provide customers with true energy independence and offer the ultimate in customer empowerment: to go off-grid with a new...
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Solar Canada 2016 post show report
The Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) and Hannover Fairs (Canada), Inc. today announced that CanSIA Solar Canada 2016 Conference and Exhibition attracted 2400 registrants and hosted 83...
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Solect installs 633-kW solar system for technical high school
Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School (UCT), a public vocational-technical high school in Bourne, Massachusetts, partnered with Solect Energy of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and Green Seal...
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Roof Tech mounting products survive Hurricane Matthew
Steven Petersen, project director of Solarize Financial, based just outside Charleston, South Carolina, is glad he installed Roof Tech’s RT E mount AIR product, especially when faced with Hurricane...
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What to do with an under-performing solar system
Solar PV plants can be classified in three simple categories, with regards to their performance: Good or adequately performing solar plants (according to base-case scenarios) Apparently good operating...
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Largest military solar power project in Northeast breaks ground
A groundbreaking ceremony for a 16.5-MW solar energy project was held at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL), a mission-critical, tri-service military base in central New Jersey. The solar...
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Solar power now supplies one-third of Palo Alto’s electric needs
sPower, an independent renewable energy provider, and the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU), California, announced that two new large-scale solar farms have begun commercial operation. The...
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1366 Technologies, Hanwha Q CELLS reach 19.6% efficiency with...
Silicon wafer manufacturer 1366 Technologies announced it has jointly achieved with Hanwha Q CELLS a new performance record of 19.6% cell efficiency for 1366’s Direct Wafer technology. The result was...
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600-kW array now largest rooftop solar system in California’s Mendocino County
Factory Pipe, a manufacturer of high-performance exhaust systems, is collaborating with Current, powered by GE, to make its Ukiah, California, headquarters more efficient. The company is offsetting 75%...
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Contractors Corner: Midwest developer promotes solar on a national stage
Some may find it surprising that a solar developer based in Indiana is making such an impact on the promotion of solar energy. The Midwest isn’t the quintessential region for solar installations, but...
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Solar Speaks: High amperage, high voltage, high what? Magnum talks charge...
Today we’re discussing charge controllers with Alan Santos-Buch, Western Region Sales and Marketing Manager of Magnum Energy, a Sensata Technologies brand. Find out how to tell what charge controller...
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Solar Speaks: SolarEdge discusses its HD-Wave inverter technology
SolarEdge’s HD-Wave technology has been turning heads since it was released at Solar Power International 2015. This year it won an Intersolar Award, and we also selected to feature it as a top product...
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Remotely monitoring off-grid solar systems
By: Mark McHenry, marketing manager at Morningstar Corp. Being able to remotely monitor PV systems is important to reducing time and costs associated with site visits. This is obviously especially...
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