Home Authors Posts by Michael Bates

Michael Bates

Michael Bates
1548 POSTS 0 COMMENTS

Roll-A-Rack Seeking Installers For Beta Testing Of New Racking System

Roll-A-Rack is seeking 10 developers or solar installers to test its patent-pending Roll-A-Rack solar panel racking system, which the company says reduces racking and...

Ingeteam Becomes First Inverter Manufacturer to be NTS Certified

Ingeteam, an international technology group that specializes in electric power conversion, has become the first central inverter manufacturer to be certified under the Technical...

ITC Issues Final Determination Confirming No Patent Infringement by REC Group

REC Group says the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a Final Determination that REC Group's products do not infringe the asserted claims...

Clir Launches Optimization Platform for Solar Assets

Clir Renewables, a provider of performance assessment software for renewable energy, has launched its optimization platform for solar assets.  Responding to requests from its existing...

Argonne Labs Developing Avian Monitoring Project

As more solar energy systems are installed across the U.S., scientists are quantifying the effects on wildlife. Current data collection methods are time-consuming, but...

Unirac Receives Notice of Acceptance Product Approval

Unirac Inc., a North American manufacturer of PV mounting systems, says its SOLARMOUNT PV mounting system is the first solar racking product to receive...

Hawaiian Electric Selects AES DE to Develop PV Projects

AES Distributed Energy (AES DE), a developer of solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar+storage facilities, has been selected by Hawaiian Electric to develop and operate...

DEPCOM Begins Construction on Virginia Solar Plant

DEPCOM Power Inc., a company that specializes in utility-scale solar projects, has begun construction on the Altavista Solar plant near Lynch Station, Va. The 113...

CIT Group Arranges Letter of Credit Facility for 8minute Solar

CIT Group Inc., a financial holding company, says its power and energy business served as sole coordinating lead arranger for a $225 million letter...

Atlas Venture Forms Solar Panel Manufacturer

Leading a $30 million initiative, the Atlas Venture Group has formed a new company that manufactures cadmium telluride photovoltaic solar panels in Toledo, Ohio....

Tigo Sues APsystems for Intellectual Property Infringement

Tigo Energy Inc., developer of the Flex MLPE and TS4 platforms, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District...

RPCS Opens Mississippi Logistics Facility

RP Construction Services Inc. (RPCS), a California-based solar tracker project design, supply and installation subcontractor, has opened a new logistics facility in Kosciusko, Miss....

Opportunity for Solar to Dot the Coalfields of Southwest Virginia

The coal mining industry has been declining for decades in the far southwestern corner of Virginia, a trend made even worse of late due...

PV Evolution Labs Releases Results of PV Module Rankings

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), an independent test lab for the global downstream solar industry, has published the 6th Edition of its PV Module Reliability...

Solar Data Systems Enters Partnership with iPLON India

Solar Data Systems Inc., an official provider of Solar-Log hardware-agnostic energy monitoring and management, has partnered with iPLON India, a company that specializes in...

ITC Safe-Harbor Rules Get an Extension

The Internal Revenue Service has issued Notice 2020-41, which confirms that safe-harbor provisions for the solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) will be extended until...

Point Load Power Launches the PV Booster Gen 2

Point Load Power, a company that specializes in rooftop solar tracking for commercial and industrial (C&I) buildings, has launched the PV Booster Gen 2.  The...

Alliant Energy Advances Six Wisconsin Solar Projects

Alliant Energy says it is planning to acquire and advance 675 MW of solar energy in six Wisconsin counties: Grant, Jefferson, Richland, Rock, Sheboygan...

Schletter Group Relocates to New Manufacturing Plant

Schletter Group, an international manufacturer of solar-mounting systems, has relocated its Shanghai site to a new plant in the city. The Schletter Group...

Sunrun Introduces Brightbox to Nevada, Colorado

Sunrun Inc., a U.S.-based home solar, battery storage and energy services company, says it is introducing its Brightbox rechargeable solar battery system to Colorado...

Stay Connected

13,144FansLike
91,176FollowersFollow