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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...

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...

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