Solect Energy installs 348-kW solar system for 990-student high school
The Somerset Berkley Regional School District has partnered with Solect Energy and PowerOptions, the region’s largest energy buying consortium, to install a 348-kW solar energy system on the roof of...
View ArticleAzimuth Energy and Ideal Power announce rural New York solar+storage project
Ideal Power, an innovative power conversion technology company, Azimuth Energy, a solar and wind energy and energy efficiency engineering and construction company and Wright Architects, a design-build...
View ArticleContractors help Florida businesses save money with solar
Alissa Jean Schafer, SACE By Alissa Jean Schafer, solar communications and policy manager at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE). Blog originally published on cleanenergy.org There are plenty...
View ArticleBayWa r.e. shares tips on how to talk to customers about storage
By: Tom Miller, editor of BayWa r.e.’s Solar r.e.view publication This blog was originally published on baywa-re.com. David Dunlap, director of operations at distributor BayWa r.e. Solar Systems,...
View ArticleSunRISE TechBridge Challenge II winners crafted innovative monitoring, O&M...
Four early-stage companies are announced as the winners of the SunRISE TechBridge Challenge II, which was designed to identify innovative solutions to reduce the levelized cost of electricity for...
View ArticlePCI Solar completes 265-kW array for Toyota manufacturing facility in San...
PCI Solar is pleased to announce the successful completion of a solar array located at the Toyota manufacturing facility in San Antonio, Texas. Toyota chose to host solar on its property as part of...
View ArticleIntersolar North America announces keynote speakers from NREL, UtilityAPI and...
Dr. Martin Keller, director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Elena Lucas, entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of UtilityAPI, and John Wellinghoff, principal of Policy/DER Consulting,...
View ArticleSMA offers free-standing solar PV inverter for commercial installations
SMA America announced that the Sunny Tripower CORE1, the world’s first free-standing PV inverter for commercial installations, has achieved UL listing and is available for purchase. The CORE1 was also...
View ArticleWhat is grid intermittency and how can contractors prepare for it?
Troy Miller As the total U.S. solar eclipse approaches and the amount of renewable energy in the country continues to rise, many people have concerns about grid reliability. We reached out to Troy...
View ArticleFlorida retirement community adds solar to community center and spa
Bradenton’s Mirabella, the national award winning and the region’s only LEED Platinum residential housing community for active adults 55+ has announced the planned installation of solar power to its...
View ArticleCalifornia senate president pro tempore to deliver keynote at Intersolar...
The SunSpec Alliance and Intersolar North America today announced that California Senate President Pro Tempore, Kevin de León (D – Los Angeles), will deliver the keynote address at the 2017 Intersolar...
View ArticleSolaTrim expands product line of protective barriers
Due to an increasing demand, SolaTrim announced today that another barrier size option will be added to their product line. In addition to the original ST-001, SolaTrim is now offering the ST-055,...
View ArticleTigo partners with more than 35 rapid-shutdown certified inverters
Tigo, pioneer of the smart modular Flex MLPE platform, announced its portfolio of international inverter partnerships has grown to more than 35 inverter-types that are now Rapid Shutdown certified by...
View ArticleClarksville Light & Water Company and Scenic Hill Solar partner on municipal...
Clarksville Light & Water Company has partnered with Scenic Hill Solar to build Arkansas’s largest solar power plant that provides power for a municipal utility. Expected to be on-line by mid-2018,...
View ArticleA legal perspective on storage, solar and the ITC
By: Mayer Brown partners David Burton and Jeff Davis and associate Binyomin Koff (Left to right) Burton, Davis, Koff With the price of storage declining substantially in recent years, some owners are...
View ArticleSunCommon helps Rock Art Brewery to become first Vermont brewery 100% powered...
Fresh off the canning line, Rock Art Brewery’s first solar-powered beer, Sun Rocked IPA, provided the perfect toast for a historic moment for both Rock Art Brewery and Vermont brewing history. On June...
View ArticleHelioPower adds solar to Southern California’s SkyRose Ranch
HelioPower announces the successful completion of a 215.7-kW DC commercial photovoltaic system at the Southern California facility of SkyRose Ranch. The 215.7-kW system is augmented with PredictEnergy...
View ArticleSan Antonio to participate in PowerFin and CPS Energy’s SolarHost program
On Thursday, June 22, 2017, the San Antonio City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that allows the city of San Antonio to participate in SolarHost, a rooftop solar program operated by PowerFin...
View ArticleDEPCOM’s 52-MW solar plant in Mississippi is now state’s largest
Mississippi Power and D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments, L.L.C. (DESRI) announced today that the 52 MW solar generating facility near Sumrall – the largest solar power plant in the state of Mississippi...
View ArticleOregon approves community solar rules
On June 29, 2017, the Public Utility Commission of Oregon (PUC) approved community solar rules that will bring the state one step closer to enabling all Oregonians to directly participate in, and...
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