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EPRI, Partners Receive Funding to Research DER Grid Integration

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Schneider Electric, General Electric and Smarter Grid Solutions, have received a $2.2 million award to develop a distributed...

Ormat Acquires Shovel-Ready Texas Energy Storage Project

Ormat Technologies Inc. has completed the acquisition of a shovel-ready energy storage asset in Upton County, Texas.  Ormat acquired the asset from Con Edison Development....

Minnesota Customers Recieve Half of Energy Needs from Renewables

Minnesota Power says its customers are now receiving half of their energy from renewable sources. The achievement highlights the success of Minnesota Power’s EnergyForward strategy...

US Solar, Minnesota Power Enter PPA for Solar+Storage Project

US Solar and Minnesota Power have entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a solar+storage project in Grand Rapids, Minn. The project is...

Solar Support Launches Predictive, Corrective Inverter Program

Solar Support, an engineering services company, has rolled out a diagnostic equipment maintenance program that uses analytics to assess the health of central inverters...

Terra-Gen, Mortenson Team Up on Record-Breaking Solar+Storage Project

Terra-Gen, a renewable energy developer and operator, has entered an agreement with Mortenson, a builder, developer and engineering services provider, to proceed on the...

Amazon Becomes Largest Corporate Purachaser of Renewables

Amazon has invested in 26 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects totaling 3.4 GW of electricity production capacity, bringing its total investment in...

Littelfuse Ups Amperage in Solar String Fuse Offerings

Littelfuse Inc., a global manufacturer of technologies in circuit protection, power control and sensing, has expanded its SPXV series solar string fuses to include...

Summit Ridge, NT Solar Close on Community Solar Partnership

Summit Ridge Energy (SRE), an owner-operator of U.S. community solar projects, and NT Solar, a subsidiary of the National Trust Community Investment Corp. (NTCIC),...

Timken Remains Confident in Expanding Renewables Market

The Timken Co., a company that specializes in engineered bearings and power transmission products, says it is allocating more than $75 million in capital...

NuGen Capital Breaks Ground on Rhode Island Rooftop Solar Project

NuGen Capital Management LLC, a company that owns, operates and develops renewable energy projects, has started construction on a 6.76 MW DC rooftop solar...

Encore, Greenbacker Developing Pollinator-Friendly Solar Projects

Encore Renewable Energy, a company that specializes in the design, development, financing, permitting and construction of solar and energy storage projects, and Greenbacker, a...

DOE Names Recipients of the American-Made Solar Prize

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected the winners of the American-Made Solar Prize Round 3 and the 20 semifinalist teams selected to...

Agilitas Energy, CarVal Investors Reach Close on Solar Portfolio

Agilitas Energy, a Northeast renewable energy developer, owner and operator, has closed on the sale of a 16.8 MW DC solar photovoltaic portfolio to...

U.S. Deploys Record Amount of Energy Storage in Q3

Approximately 476  MW of energy storage were  deployed this year - an increase of  240% over the previous high set last quarter, according to...

Capital Dynamics Completes Financing on Nevada Solar Project

Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, says its Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) business has achieved financial close on the 383 MW...

DSD Acquires New York Community Solar Portfolio from Source Renewables

Distributed Solar Development (DSD) has acquired a three-project, 17 MW community solar portfolio from Source Renewables, a New York-based developer focused on community solar...

CPS Energy Issues RFP Seeking Solar, Energy Storage

CPS Energy, a municipally owned, fully integrated electric and gas utility, has formally launched a request for proposal (RFP) seeking to add up to...

Seraphim Unveils the S4 Half-Cell Series PV Module

Jiangsu Seraphim Solar System Co. Ltd., a China-based solar product manufacturer, has released its new generation of products - the S4 half-cell series photovoltaic...

ReneSola Power, VCE Sign Solar+Storage PPA

ReneSola Power Ltd., a fully integrated solar project developer, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a solar+storage system with northern California-based Valley...

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