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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.
SEIA Announces Board Of Directors Changes
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has announced that solar developer Southern Current is now a member of SEIA’s board of directors. Additionally, Ryan...
Hanwha Q CELLS Korea Building Solar Manufacturing Hub In Georgia
Hanwha Q CELLS Korea Corp. is building a new solar module manufacturing facility in Whitfield County, Ga.
Construction for the factory will commence this year...
GRID Alternatives, Vote Solar Release 2018 Low-Income Solar Policy Guide
National nonprofits GRID Alternatives and Vote Solar have released their updated Low-Income Solar Policy Guide.
First published in 2016, the guide is an online resource...
New NextEra Solar Project Comes To Life In Arkansas
State and local leaders joined executives from NextEra Energy Resources and Entergy Arkansas this morning to celebrate the commissioning of the Stuttgart Solar Energy...
Solar Now Providing Almost 2% Of U.S.’ Electrical Production
Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind) accounted for 19.2% of net domestic electrical generation during the first quarter of 2018, according...
New Jersey Parish Installs Solar Across Its Campus
IGS Solar and St. James Parish of Red Bank, N.J., have announced the completion of two rooftop solar installations.
The parish was founded in 1856....
St. Petersburg Green-Lights Solar Canopy Project
The St. Petersburg City Council in Florida recently authorized Mayor Rick Kriseman to execute a lease with Duke Energy Florida for a solar PV...
California School District Celebrates Nine New Solar Projects
On Thursday, renewable energy developer ForeFront Power and Los Altos School District (LASD) in California celebrated the completion of solar canopy systems across nine...
Norman Becomes First City In Oklahoma To Commit To 100% Clean Energy
On Tuesday, the City of Norman, Okla., committed to transition to 100% clean and renewable energy, according to the Sierra Club, which notes that Norman...
N.J. Governor Signs Landmark Bills To Create Community Solar, Mandate More Renewables
Solar and other clean energy groups are applauding the passage of a New Jersey bill they say will revive the renewable energy industry in...
Southern Power Selling 1.7 GW Of U.S. Solar
Southern Power, a wholesale energy provider and subsidiary of Southern Co., has entered into an agreement to sell a 33% minority interest in its...
Landfill Solar Project To Be Finished Up In Ohio This Summer
Conti Solar has begun construction on what it calls the largest landfill solar project in the state of Ohio.
Located in Cuyahoga County, the 4...
Enphase Now Shipping Latest Micro-Inverter To Solar Distributors
Solar micro-inverter company Enphase Energy Inc. has begun shipping its Enphase IQ 7X micro-inverters to solar distributors in the U.S.
According to the company, the...
USAA Real Estate Bringing 2.4 MW Solar Array To N.J. Property
Construction is beginning this month on a 2.4 MW solar array in Cranbury, N.J., for a property of USAA Real Estate, the real estate...
Berkeley Company Offsetting 90% Of Electric Bill With Solar
GU Energy Labs, a family-owned business that produces sports nutrition products, has installed a new solar PV system at its headquarters in Berkeley, Calif.
The...
Solar Finally Beats Biomass For Annual Electricity Generation
Electricity generation from solar resources in the U.S. reached 77 million MWh in 2017, surpassing, for the first time, annual generation from biomass resources, which generated...
PV Inverter Production Ramping Up At New Siemens Gamesa Facility
Siemens Gamesa has inaugurated a new renewable energy testing and manufacturing center in Madrid.
The company has expanded and upgraded facilities previously operated in Coslada,...
Pennington, N.J., Dept. Of Public Works Adopts Solar-Plus-Storage
New Jersey utility Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) has announced that its solar-plus-storage project for the Borough of Pennington, N.J., Department of...
EPC Company Conti Solar Appoints New Exec
Edison, N.J.-headquartered Conti Solar, a national solar EPC, O&M and energy storage company, has announced the promotion of Eric Millard to chief commercial officer.
Millard will report...
NEXTracker, First Solar Mate Mounting And Panel Technology
NEXTracker, a Flex company, has announced a collaboration with First Solar to provide patent-pending racking technology for First Solar’s Series 6 panel rollout this...