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Nine takeaways from the latest report on solar-plus-storage
The market currently has access to several types of energy storage technologies, each with its own strengths and limitations, as well as price points depending on power to energy ratio. Some...
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SGRC offers new utility PV forecasting service
The Smart Grid Research Consortium (SGRC) announced new SGRC Utility Solar PV Forecasting Models and Forecasting Service. The SGRC Solar Models and Service provide the first commercially available...
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EcoFasten Solar debuts Rock-It System roof mount at Intersolar
EcoFasten Solar officially launched their newest product, the Rock-It System, a rail-free solar roof mount, at Intersolar N.A. in San Francisco. The Rock-It System conforms to UL Subject 2703, bearing...
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Solar Impulse pushes second half of round-the-world solar flight to April 2016
Solar Impulse | Anna Pizzolante | Rezo.ch Despite the hard work of the Solar Impulse team to repair the batteries which overheated in the record breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii, the solar...
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5 potential solar high-flyers and industry movers
As solar continues to boom companies from storage, software and other fields are attracted to the potential for success in the industry. At forum at Intersolar NA 2015, five new innovative companies...
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Intersolar Q&A: Krannich Solar, specialized wholesaler for PV installations
Solar Power World caught up Juan Romera-Wade, CEO of distributor Krannich Solar, to learn more about the company’s role in the industry and what he hopes to share with attendees at Intersolar North...
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Storage experts discuss the future at Intersolar growth company forum
Storage will increasingly play a pivotal role in the solar industry. Private and public firms are figuring out ways to bundle storage with solar in economically attractive ways. But storage is more...
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Hanwha Q CELLS to supply 50 MW of panels to Sunrun
Hanwha Q CELLS Co. Ltd. announced a new solar module supply agreement with Sunrun, the largest dedicated residential solar company in the U.S. Through the partnership, a subsidiary of Hanwha Q CELLS...
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Draker and Inaccess join forces to provide PV monitoring and asset management...
Draker and Inaccess have announced that they will be joining forces in a strategic cooperation agreement to provide PV monitoring and asset management solutions. This agreement enables the two U.S...
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Array Technologies and Swinerton to execute 1 GW pipeline
Array Technologies, Inc. (ATI), manufacturer of tracking systems, and turnkey provider, Swinerton Renewable Energy, have entered into a agreement to supply and install more than one gigawatt of solar...
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Contractors Corner: Mortenson speaks on how to know your solar customers better
How do you stay on top of knowing your customers’ needs? What are their biggest challenges and how can you help? Is talking to them on the job site enough? We spoke with Trent Mostaert, Vice President...
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Amcor expands availability of lightweight, flexible solar front sheets made...
Solvay Specialty Polymers, a leading global supplier of high-performance thermoplastics, announced last week at Intersolar North America 2015 that films extruded from its Advanced Halar 500 ethylene...
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Big Sun Group leads another way to track the sun
Many companies offer products with different tracking possibilities, varying from single-axis to dual-axis. Dual-axis solar tracking is known to harvest significantly more energy from the sun compared...
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How does solar backtracking make projects more productive?
Photo: Array Technologies, Inc. Solar backtracking is a tracking control program that aims to minimize PV panel-on-panel shading, thus avoiding production losses. When a tracker, or a linked tracker...
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Envision Solar receives state contract to supply EV Chargers
EV ZEV Summit 2015 Sacramento EnvisionSolar International, a renewable energy, media and branding and electric vehicle (EV) charging product company, has announced that California has awarded the...
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Thin-film manufacturer SoloPower to be acquired by Opera Investments
Opera Investments plc is pleased to announce it has reached a heads of terms agreement to acquire all of the issued share capital of SoloPower Systems Holdings. SoloPower uses CIGS-based solar cells...
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Central Florida Goodwill store installs solar array with support from Duke...
Goodwill Industries of Central Florida and local elected officials recently unveiled a 140-kW, 12,000-square-foot solar array installed on the roof of the nonprofit’s Oviedo Retail Store. As part of...
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IKEA installs largest solar rooftop project in Missouri
IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced the installing of solar panels is complete atop its St. Louis store opening September 30, 2015. Once the other components are...
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IBM boosts accuracy of solar forecasts by up to 30%
IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) today revealed that solar and wind forecasts it is producing using machine learning and other cognitive computing technologies are proving to be as much as 30 percent more...
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Partnership encourages safe work under the sun
Massachusetts-based Solect Energy (No. 84 on the upcoming 2015 Top Solar Contractors list) founder and CEO Ken Driscoll discusses the company’s unlikely partnership with the Melanoma Foundation of New...
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