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Energy Investments Failing to Keep World on Renewables Target, Says Report

Despite last year's surge of $1.8 trillion in clean energy investments worldwide, investment remains below what is needed to meet the COP28 target of...

Canadian Solar, Lifestyle Solar Partner on California Residential Solar+Storage

Canadian Solar has entered into a partnership agreement with Lifestyle Solar to provide solar and energy storage solutions to California homebuilders.   Through the partnership, Canadian...

Oxford PV Releases Residential Solar Module with Record-Setting Efficiency

Oxford PV says it has achieved a record in solar efficiency with a 60-cell residential-size module, produced with the company’s perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells.  The...

Maxeon Initiates Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Aiko, Partners

Maxeon Solar Technologies has initiated a patent infringement lawsuit in the Düsseldorf Local Division of the Court of First Instance of Unified Patent Court...

Vesper Sells Gaucho and Nestlewood Solar Projects to Octopus Energy

Vesper Energy has sold two PJM assets, Gaucho Solar and Nestlewood Solar, to Octopus Energy Generation.  The Nestlewood Solar project is located on 610 acres...

Nextracker, Unimacts Announce Second Nevada Solar Factory

Nextracker and Unimacts have jointly announced plans for a new factory in the Las Vegas area. This would be the second Nextracker-dedicated manufacturing line that...

Adapture Renewables Signs Offtake Contract with Fortune 50 Company

Adapture Renewables has executed an energy off-take agreement with a confidential Fortune 50 company for a 67 MW utility-scale solar facility in Hunt County,...

Silfab Solar Modules Earn Top Performer Rating From Kiwa PVEL

Silfab Solar has earned a “top performer” rating for its Elite model solar panel under the 2024  Kiwa PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) testing. “For more...

D.R. Horton Offers Canadian Solar PV Panels, Batteries to California

Canadian Solar has entered into an agreement with homebuilder D.R. Horton to offer its solar and energy storage products across California communities. Under the agreement,...

San Rafael City Schools, REC Solar Partner on Districtwide Solar

The San Rafael City Schools (SRCS) Board of Education has selected REC Solar to build, own and operate 2.3 MW of rooftop and canopy...

Swift Solar Announces $27M Series A Funding Round

Swift Solar has closed its $27 million Series A financing round, co-led by Eni Next and Fontinalis Partners.  Also joining the round are Stanford University,...

Escalante Solar Reaches Commercial Operation

Origis Energy and the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association have put the 200 MW Escalante Solar project into commercial operation.  The project was built on...

SunVest Acquires, Begins Construction on Illinois and Maine Community Solar Projects

SunVest Solar has closed the acquisition and project financing for a 50 MW portfolio of community solar projects in Illinois and Maine.  Several Illinois projects...

DTE Energy to Build BESS at Converted Michigan Coal Plant

DTE Energy is converting a portion of its retired Trenton Channel coal power plant site to house a 220 MW battery energy storage center,...

Revolve Achieves Bouse Solar and Storage Project Milestone

Revolve Renewable Power has completed the interconnection milestone related to the 1,000 MW Bouse Solar and Storage Project, located in La Paz County, Ariz.  The project...

The Catholic University of America Completes Community Solar Project

The Catholic University of America has completed its 7.5 MW West Campus Solar Array, developed in collaboration with Standard Solar. The array, located in Washington,...

Entergy, NextEra Energy Resources to Develop 4.5 GW of New Solar + BESS

Entergy and NextEra Energy Resources have agreed to jointly accelerate the development of up to 4.5 GW of new solar generation and BESS projects...

LRE, Pacific Gas & Electric Sign Long-Term Agreement for BESS Project

Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has signed a 15-year resource adequacy agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) for LRE’s 112.5 MW Sierra Pinta...

SC Solar Establishes U.S. Subsidiary in Dallas

SC Solar’s U.S. subsidiary has opened the doors to its production facility, located in Dallas.  The company says it has provided 30 of its automated...

Minnesota Approves Otter Tail Power Modified Integrated Resource Plan 

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has approved a modified version of Otter Tail Power’s Integrated Resource Plan, which lays out the utility’s plans for...

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