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U.S. Senate Passes Repeal of Solar Tariff Moratorium

A week after passing in the House, the U.S. Senate has voted to approve H.J.Res.39, a measure that would repeal the Biden administration’s June...

TSI Awarded Funds for Solar Window Development

Solar PV manufacturer Toledo Solar Inc (TSI) has been awarded $8.8 million in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy...

Renewable America Delivering Solar Power to California CCAs

Renewable America, a provider of distributed energy resources in California, is providing over 15 MW of solar power coupled with 8 MWh of energy...

Decom Solar Decommissions Solar System for Seyon Management

Decom Solar LLC has completed the decommissioning of a 661.96 kW rooftop system for Seyon Management. The solar installation, located atop a warehouse in...

Developer Closes Financing for 266 MW Solar Project

Swift Current Energy closed project financing with ING Capital LLC and has received a tax equity commitment from Morgan Stanley Renewables Inc. for its...

EE North America Takes Majority Stake in 700 MW of Solar

EE North America has acquired a majority stake in the Sandy Hill Solar and Sand Dune Solar projects, located in Colorado, adding 700 MW...

NJBPU, Rutgers Initiating Pilot Program for 200 MW of Agrivoltaics

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has approved an agreement with the Rutgers University Agrivoltaics Program (RAP) to facilitate the development and...

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...

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