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Duke Energy Renewables acquires three California solar projects from SunPower
Duke Energy Renewables announced today it has acquired three solar power projects from SunPower totaling 55 megawatts. The sites include the 20-MW Rio Bravo I, the 20-MW Rio Bravo II, and the 15-MW...
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Total corporate funding in solar sector comes in at $9.1 billion in 2016,...
$4.9 Billion Raised by Residential and Commercial Solar Funds, VC Funding Reaches $1.3 Billion Mercom Capital Group, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on...
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SunPower installs 3.9 MW of Helix solar systems across 13 California school...
Bonita Unified School District (BUSD) and SunPower Corp. will celebrate the near completion of multiple SunPower Helix solar systems across 13 school sites in California’s San Gabriel Valley with a...
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IKEA installs Washington’s largest rooftop solar array at new Seattle-area store
IKEA announced that the installation of solar panels is complete atop the relocated Seattle-area store currently under construction in Renton, Washington, that will open in early Spring 2017. The...
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Huawei to be inverter supplier for EPC contractor SOVENTIX
SOVENTIX and Huawei Solar have signed a Framework Agreement positioning Huawei as the exclusive supplier of inverter equipment to the global EPC contractor and its pipeline worldwide. The landmark...
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Younicos adds 75 MW of projects under new CEO
Energy storage company Younicos was awarded contracts for a total of 75 megawatts in 2016, its first year under the stewardship of CEO Stephen L. Prince. Compared to 2015, this represents a 400% growth...
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Inverters are leading the way to meeting new rapid shutdown requirements
The NFPA has published the 2017 edition of the National Electrical Code, and technically, as of Jan. 1, any state could adopt the code’s new rules. However, as with any code cycle, there will be a lag...
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Dominion Virginia Power adds 56 MW to three Virginia counties
Nearly 235,000 solar panels, with help from the sun, are at work for Dominion Virginia Power customers now that the company has completed construction on three large-scale solar facilities in three...
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Largest solar+storage system in Hawaii to come online in 2018
AES Distributed Energy, a subsidiary of The AES Corporation, and Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) announced today the execution of a PPA for an innovative plant that will provide solar energy...
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Duke Energy Florida to build solar power plant in Suwannee County
Duke Energy announced the location of its newest universal solar power plant, which will provide cleaner, smarter energy solutions for Florida customers. It will be built on 70 acres near Live Oak,...
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APsystems joins Sungage Financial approved vendor list
APsystems microinverters have joined the popular Sungage solar financing approved vendor list. The partnership brings the APsystems advanced microinverter line to a powerful residential solar lending...
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Enel Acquires energy storage software and project developer Demand Energy
Enel, through its subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc., has acquired a 100% stake in Demand Energy Networks, Inc. (“Demand Energy”), a US-based company specialised in intelligent software...
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Gridtential secures $6 Million from Battery Industry Strategics, East Penn...
Gridtential Inc., an innovator in low-cost, high-performance energy storage technologies, today announced it has completed a $6 million fundraise with strategic investors from some of the world’s...
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APS partners with PayPal, university on its largest grid-scale solar plant
APS has unveiled its largest grid-scale solar plant to the public. The Red Rock Solar Plant is an example of how utilities can partner with customers to develop cost-effective solar energy. APS...
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Aurora Solar Technologies introduces bifacial solar cell optimization system
Aurora Solar Technologies introduced an enhanced version of its Decima inline measurement system for quality control of bifacial solar cells during production. Bifacial solar cells have an open and...
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Solect Energy installs rooftop solar array for Accardi Foods
Solar array atop Accardi Foods. Photo courtesy Solect Energy Solect Energy of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, has partnered with Accardi Foods, one of New England’s largest specialty food distributors based...
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Missouri’s PACE financing program encourages homeowners to go solar
Close to 300,000 additional homes across Missouri now have access to the HERO Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program, which enables homeowners to make energy improvements and pay for them over...
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Florida Power & Light Company completes three new universal solar power plants
Florida Power & Light Company connected three new 74.5-MW universal solar power plants to the energy grid that serves its customers on December 31, 2016. In 2017, FPL plans to build four more...
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4 ways PACE can help you land commercial projects
The property-assessed clean energy (PACE) model is an innovative mechanism for financing energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements on private property. PACE programs allow local governments,...
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The hows and whys of establishing solar distributor relationships
Mary Shaffer Gill, Director of Marketing, CivicSolar By: Mary Shaffer Gill, Director of Marketing, CivicSolar Distributors provide efficiency for solar contractors by serving as a single point of...
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