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House Votes to Keep Solar-Tariff Moratorium on the Chopping Block

After clearing the House Ways and Means Committee on April 17, the full House today passed legislation to repeal the Biden administration’s June 2022...

SunPower Buys Into Minnesota Solar Provider Wolf River Electric

Solar energy technology and services provider SunPower has made a minority investment in one of the largest residential solar providers in Minnesota, Wolf River...

Sol Systems Picks Up Large Solar Development Portfolio in Illinois

Sol Systems has acquired a 157 MW DC solar development portfolio near Peoria, Ill., from Illinois-based Trajectory Energy Partners. The company acquired the portfolio as...

Leeward Contracts for 2 GW of First Solar PV Modules

First Solar Inc. has signed an agreement to supply 2 GW DC of thin-film photovoltaic modules to Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE), to be delivered...

Solar and Wind Eclipse Coal in U.S. Energy Mix

According to nonprofit group the SUN DAY Campaign, a review of fresh data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Federal Energy...

Clean Energy Measures in Jeopardy with Passed House Bill

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, a bill intended to increase the federal debt limit while...

Energix Renewables Selects Solar Tracker Tech from Nevados

Solar tracker company Nevados Engineering Inc. is partnering with independent power producer Energix Renewables to provide its all-terrain technology platform as a part of...

Trimble, Namaste Solar Start Work on 1.7 MW Array

Trimble has broken ground on the construction of a 1.7 MW solar array at its Westminster, Colo., headquarters, offsetting more than 100% of the...

AVANGRID Energizes Oregon’s Largest Solar PV Facility

AVANGRID has achieved commercial operation at its 162 MW AC / 205 MW DC Pachwáywit Fields solar farm - also known as Montague Solar...

BioStar Renewables Taps Castillo Engineering for 15 MW Project

Castillo Engineering has partnered with BioStar Renewables to provide electrical design and engineering for a 15 MW solar project in Kansas. The behind-the-meter project utilizes...

Silicon Ranch, Green Power EMC Complete 106 MW Clay Solar Project

Independent power producer Silicon Ranch and Green Power EMC, the renewable energy supplier for 38 Georgia electric membership cooperatives (EMCs), are celebrating the completion...

Standard Solar Buys EDF Renewables Solar+Storage Project in Massachusetts

Standard Solar has acquired the Knox solar+storage project from developer EDF Renewables North America: a 1.5 MW solar / 2 MWh project for the...

Ameresco Completes Solar Installation for Missoula, Montana

Ameresco Inc. and the City of Missoula, Mont., have completed a 545 kW behind-the-meter, non-export solar photovoltaic array at the city’s wastewater treatment plant. Missoula...

Kentucky’s Largest Privately Funded On-Site Solar Project Comes Online

Stanley Black & Decker, in partnership with Castillo Engineering and RPG Energy Group today, has unveiled a 4.3 MW solar farm in Hopkinsville, Ky.,...

Googles Leans on EDP Renewables to Support Solar-Focused Environmental Justice Program

Google and EDPR NA Distributed Generation LLC (EDPR NA DG), the distributed generation business unit of EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA), have signed...

Siemens, Lightsource bp Finalize Major Solar Inverter Supply Agreement

Lightsource bp has inked an agreement with Siemens for the supply of solar inverters for a number of projects in the Midwest and Southeast. Per...

SRE, Black Bear Kick Off Construction of Four Maryland Projects

Summit Ridge Energy and Black Bear Energy says construction has commenced on four industrial solar projects in Maryland. The sites, in Belcamp and Rosedale,...

HASI Funds Portfolio of CA Solar Assets for ForeFront Power

ForeFront Power, a developer and asset manager of commercial and industrial solar energy and battery storage projects, and investor HASI have entered into a...

Developer Kicks Off Construction of 4 MW Community Solar Project

Genie Solar Energy, a developer of commercial and community solar projects, has broken ground on the construction of a 4 MW community solar array...

CIGS Thin-Film Manufacturer Ascent Solar Buys Flisom Production Line

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc., a developer of CIGS thin-film photovoltaic solutions, has completed a transaction to acquire the Zurich-based manufacturing assets of thin-film solar...

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