Webinar: Managing Risk During PV Plant Development
Live Webinar is Thursday, September 4th at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Reserve your spot by clicking the “Register” button below. Safety, performance, availability and achieving expected energy yields are critical...
View ArticleBreaking the Barrier For Superfund Solar Development
Superfund and brownfield sites represent available, cheap land with few competing alternative uses, and are well suited to solar’s light installation footprint and long-term use horizon. By Geoffrey S....
View ArticleHow To Shorten The Solar Sales Process For Success
Customer requests, such as migrating a 120kW array from rooftop (left) to carport (right), can be incorporated directly by the salesperson when using sales software. By Paul Grana and Paul Gibbs,...
View ArticleArray Technologies Wraps-Up Tracker Shipments To 35 MW Avalon Solar
Located about 23 miles south of Tucson, Ariz., construction on the 35 MW Avalon Solar park has already begun. Swinerton Renewable Energy, one of the solar industry’s premiere construction firms, is...
View ArticleIronRidge Expands XR Rail Family With New Sizes
IronRidge, a manufacturer of solar mounting products, has announced the expansion of its XR Rail Family to include three new rail sizes, all featuring the company’s signature curved profile. The new...
View ArticleKACO Inverters Used In Two New Solar Projects
KACO new energy has two exciting projects in the works, which will use its solar inverters. Here’s a quick look at them. San Antonia, Texas A seven phase utility solar project known as Alamo is well...
View ArticleSMA Buys Phoenix Solar Operations And Maintenance Solar Business
Phoenix Solar, photovoltaic system integrator, has sold its operation and maintenance activities (O&M business) in Europe to SMA Solar Technology AG. Dr. Bernd Köhler, Chief Executive Officer of...
View ArticleTD Bank Selects Lumos LSX Modules For Drive-Thru Structures
Lumos Solar, a Boulder, Colo., based design-centric solar product company, recently announced that TD Bank chose Lumos LSX frameless solar modules to cover their retail drive-thru structures. These...
View ArticleHow To Bring More Financing To C&I Solar Projects
Mike McGuire, a co-founder of Wiser Capital, currently oversees finance and risk management for the company’s transactions. McGuire has more than 40 years of financial management, investment management...
View ArticleDuPont Adds Two New Pastes To Its Solamet Line
DuPont Microcircuit Materials (DuPont) has added two new products to its lineup of frontside silver metallization pastes for crystalline silicon solar cells. DuPont Solamet PV18H and PV18J PV...
View ArticleSMA Launches Central Solar Inverter Production In South Africa
After the successful early commissioning of the South African Kalkbult PV power plant last fall, a second project in the country the Linde 40-MW project with technology from SMA Solar Technology AG...
View ArticleHanwha Q Cells On Path For 1.5 GW Production Increase
Hanwha Q Cells recently completed construction of an additional 204 MW production line for high performance solar cells in its Malaysian manufacturing facility. The company also announced a further...
View ArticleSolar Speaks: Is Shortening The Sales Cycle Possible?
We’ve actually seen Helioscope, a design and production-measurement software, in use twice, and we came away impressed with its capabilities. So we invited the product’s developers — Paul Gibbs and...
View ArticleThermo Bond Buildings Acquires New Facility In Indiana
Thermo Bond Buildings, a provider of equipment enclosures for the telecom, government, fiber and power generation industries, recently increased their production capacity with the lease of an...
View ArticleEaton’s Offers Circuit Protection For Solar Projects Of All Sizes
Eaton’s Circuit Protection division aims to help OEMs, contractors and system owners protect vital PV power systems by offering a complete range of reliable solar circuit protection solutions. The...
View ArticleReneSola To Supply 22 MW For UK Solar Projects
ReneSola, a brand and technology provider of solar PV products, recently announced that ReneSola UK will supply 22 MW of its high-efficiency polycrystalline Virtus I and Virtus II solar modules for...
View ArticleClenergy Provides Mounting For 100-MW Pakistan Solar Project
A 100-MW project at the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Energy Park in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, will go online in the near future. Clenergy provided 40MW of mounting systems for the project. Clenergy is cooperating...
View ArticleSolaire, Boston Properties, HPP ‘Flip Switch’ On 840-kW Array
Boston Properties, Healthy Planet Partners (HPP) and Solaire Generation recently announced they are ‘Flipping the Switch’ on the 840-kW garage mounted solar canopy at Boston Properties’ Bay Colony. “We...
View ArticleTony Clifford Elected To Third Term On SEIA’s Executive Committee
Tony Clifford, CEO of Standard Solar, a full-service development, construction, integration, financing and installation of solar electric systems company, has been elected to a third term as a member...
View ArticleE2SOL And AllEarth Renewables Enter Partnership
A new partnership between E2SOL and New England-based solar tracker manufacturer AllEarth Renewables brings the AllSun solar tracker system to homeowners and businesses throughout Rhode Island. A...
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