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Inovateus Solar Begins Construction on LMU’s First Solar Project

Inovateus Solar has commenced construction on the first solar power plant in Logansport, Ind. Inovateus is developing the installation for the Logansport Municipal Utility (LMU)....

Idemitsu Renewables Closes on Debt Financing for California Solar Project

Idemitsu Renewables, a U.S.-based renewable energy business of Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd., has closed on debt financing for its 50 MWp Central 40 solar...

Enphase Energy, Q CELLS Enter AC Module Partnership

Enphase Energy Inc. and Q CELLS have entered a strategic partnership to develop Enphase Energized Q CELLS AC Modules (ACMs) based on seventh-generation Enphase...

Planet Solar Names LG Electronics Exclusive Solar Panel Provider

Solar contractor Planet Solar Inc. has named LG Electronics as the exclusive solar panel provider for the Huntley Indian Wells Community, the first new...

TVA Gives Green Light to LPC Energy Generation

The Tennessee Valley Authority says an environmental assessment determined a Finding of No Significant Impact that will green-light most local power companies (LPCs) across...

NASEO, NARUC Launch Cybersecurity Initiative for Solar Projects

The National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), an association that represents the interests of...

SolarEdge Launches Energy Hub Inverter

SolarEdge Technologies Inc. has launched its new Energy Hub Inverter with Prism Technology, which combines the performance of HD-Wave technology and the functionality of...

Amazon Unveils Climate Pledge Fund to Invest in Decarbonizing the Economy

Amazon has launched The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon and other companies to...

IEEFA: Federal Lands Woefully Underutilized for Utility-Scale Solar

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has acreage set aside for utility-scale solar development on only 0.03% of the roughly 100 million acres it...

Keysight Launches the PV8900 Series PV Simulator

Keysight Technologies Inc. has launched a new family of photovoltaic array simulators that are the first to deliver 2000 V and 20 kW...

Laserax Releases the LXQ Fiber Laser Marker Series

After two years of development, Laserax, a company that provides manufacturing industries with laser technology, has released the LXQ Fiber Laser Marker series.  The laser’s...

Restoration Partnership Addresses Damaged PV Assets

Solar Support, an engineering services company, DEPCOM Power Inc. and Power Factor have partnered to expand the capabilities of their extreme weather restoration and...

Morgan Solar Secures Utility-Scale Order from Enbridge

Morgan Solar Inc. has sold 13.6 MW DC (10.5 MW AC) of bifacial solar panels with the company’s SimbaX technology to Enbridge Inc., an...

COVID-19 Continues to Devastate Clean Energy Jobs

More than 620,000 U.S. clean clean energy workers have lost their jobs since March, after 27,000 new workers filed unemployment claims in May, according...

DER Market Positioned for Decade of High Growth

The rate of annual investment in distributed energy resources (DER) will increase by 75% by 2030, with the market set for a decade of...

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments Closes on Utah Solar Facility

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a North American renewable energy producer, has closed on the Sigurd Solar project, securing both construction debt and...

U.S. Solar Market Sets Installation Record

The U.S. solar market installed 3.6 GW of new solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in Q1, representing its largest first quarter ever in the U.S.  According...

Loanpal Reopens Renewable Credit Markets Post COVID-19

Loanpal, a company that specializes in residential solar financing, says Goldman Sachs has priced securitizations of $459 million worth of Loanpal solar loans previously...

Ginlong Technologies Debuts Hybrid Energy Storage Inverter

Ginlong Technologies, a global photovoltaic string inverter manufacturer, has debuted its latest hybrid energy storage inverter across EU markets.  The three-phase Solis-HVES (high voltage energy...

CCSA: Massachusetts Solar Regulations Would Cancel Clean Energy Projects

New clean energy regulations in Massachusetts could have the unintended consequence of canceling nearly 80 solar energy projects at a time when COVID-19 is...

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