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Betsy Lillian
Betsy Lillian serves as the editor of Solar Industry, as well as sister publications North American Windpower, NGT News and Unmanned Aerial Online. She has been with Zackin Publications since 2012.
Tesla Relaunches Solar Business With New Rental Plans
On Sunday, Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, announced on Twitter that Tesla Solar had "just relaunched," offering solar rentals in six states.
Tesla is providing three...
ENGIE Signs REC Agreement With N.J. School
Princeton Day School, a private New Jersey school serving pre-K through Grade 12 students, has announced a new renewable energy deal with ENGIE Resources.
Under...
GRID Installing No-Cost Solar On Habitat For Humanity Home In VA
GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic has partnered with Habitat for Humanity Northern Virginia to provide the Tesfaye family in Alexandria, Va., with a home build and...
NextEra’s Gexa Energy To Bring 100% Renewables To Residential Plans
Gexa Energy LP, a retail electricity provider in Texas, plans to transition all of its residential plans to 100% renewable energy with no extra...
Freedom Solar Expands In Dallas-Fort Worth Area
Freedom Solar, a provider of turnkey solar installations in Texas, is relocating its Dallas office to a larger space in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex...
Wisconsin Targets 100% Carbon-Free Electricity
Gov. Tony Evers, D-Wis., has signed Executive Order No. 38, which focuses on achieving 100% carbon-free electricity in Wisconsin.
The order calls on the...
Clark Public Utilities’ Community Solar Site Hits New Production Peak
Clark Public Utilities, a customer-owned public utility serving roughly 200,000 customers in Clark County, Wash., says its community solar site has hit a new...
States Increasingly Taking Actions On Grid Modernization
Forty-four states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, took actions related to grid modernization in the second quarter of the...
MiaSolé Solar Module Passes Damage Tests With Flying Colors
MiaSolé Hi-Tech Corp., a California-based manufacturer of lightweight, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules and a subsidiary of Hanergy Thin Film Power Group, has announced multiple...
Newly Formed Company Serves Small, Midsize Solar Businesses
Several wind and solar industry executives have launched a new company, Strategic Solar Sourcing.
The company says it offers small and midsize solar businesses supply-chain...
Mosaic, SunTrust Bank Form Solar Financing Partnership
Mosaic, a provider of solar financing solutions for homeowners, has announced a strategic loan origination partnership with SunTrust Bank.
The partnership focuses on solar loan...
Meyer Burger Plans Strategic Collaboration With REC Solar
Meyer Burger Technology AG has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a strategic collaboration with REC Solar Pte. Ltd.
REC plans to...
Maryland Launches Governor’s Task Force On Solar, Wind Siting
Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md., has signed Executive Order 01.01.2019.09, establishing the Governor’s Task Force on Renewable Energy Development and Siting, which will work to develop consensus-based...
U.S. Military Supplier Uses C-PACE Financing To Expand On-Site Solar
Thanks to a new financing agreement with the Connecticut Green Bank, the L.C. Doane Co. plans to expand its rooftop solar systems.
For over...
NY Green Bank Highlights Q2 Solar Commitments
NY Green Bank, a division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), has announced strong results for the second quarter,...
CleanChoice Helps Support Healthy Habitat For Bees On Solar Farms
CleanChoice Energy has announced a new partnership with Bolton Bees, a family-owned business that promotes the productive use of land at ground-mounted solar farms....
NADB Green Bond Finances Solar And Wind Projects
The North American Development Bank (NADB) has published the impact results of its first green bond, issued in 2018. The bond’s total net proceeds...
Ralphs Adds 7,000-Panel Solar Array At Distribution Center
Ralphs Grocery Co., a subsidiary of The Kroger Co., has installed a new solar project at its automated distribution center in Paramount, Calif.
The new...
Pattern Energy Confirms Third-Party Interest
Pattern Energy Group Inc. has confirmed it has "drawn interest from third parties" regarding a rumored takeover and is "responding to such inquiries as...
Study Underscores ‘Huge Potential’ Of Agrivoltaics
The most productive places on Earth for solar power are farmlands, claims a recent study from Oregon State University (OSU).
The study, published in the...