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Generac Introduces PWRzone Solar Installation Technology
Generac Power Systems has introduced the PWRzone, a total solar system installation that uses fewer complex components than module-level power electronics (MLPEs).
Generac's PWRzone system...
Sunpro Solar Selected by Unirac as Certified Installer
Sunpro Solar, a solar installation company, has been selected by Unirac as a Certified Platinum Installer. Certified partners have the full backing of Unirac,...
ARENA Awards Grant for Renewables Demonstration Project
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) says $994,685 in funding has been awarded to Solcast to conduct its Gridded Renewables Nowcasting Demonstration project.
Solcast aims...
Local Governments Advance Clean Energy Transition
As of March, local governments have signed 335 deals to procure a total of 8.28 GW of renewable energy over the last five years...
Landmark Legislation Aims to Stimulate U.S. Solar Industry
What began as a bill aimed at boosting the U.S. transportation and infrastructure sectors has morphed into a $1.5 trillion federal stimulus package that...
DroneBase Expands into the Renewables Market
DroneBase, an aerial data analytics company, has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, has expanded its services to the renewable energy market with...
Xcel Energy Proposes Minnesota Clean Energy Investments
Xcel Energy, a company that delivers clean energy solutions from a variety of renewable sources, has proposed one of the largest packages of energy...
Nexans Solar Signs Solar Tracker Contract with Reden
Nexans Solar Technologies (NST) has signed its first contract to design, manufacture and supply its KEYLIOS Solar Trackers for Reden, a company that specializes...
First Solar Signs PPA With Dow
First Solar Inc., a provider of photovoltaic (PV) solar solutions, has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Dow Inc. for its Gulf...
New Initiative Seeks to Expand U.S. Transmission Network
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) have launched the Macro Grid Initiative to build support...
Sunrun Launching Solar-Based Virtual Power Plant
Sunrun Inc., a company that provides home solar, battery storage and energy services, and Southern California Edison (SCE), a California-based utility, are working together...
RPCS, IMPA Partner to Complete Solar Tracker Projects
RP Construction Services Inc. (RPCS), a company that designs, supplies and builds utility-scale ground-mount solar projects, and the Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA) have...
SPI, ESI and North America Smart Energy Week Moves Outdoors
SPI, ESI and North America Smart Energy Week is the largest business-to-business platform for the renewable energy industry. To facilitate an experience that is...
SunLogix Selects Warehouse Partner
SunLogix, a company that provides logistics services to the solar power industry, has selected sPower, a renewable energy independent power producer (IPP), as its...
Panasonic Expands PV Module Warranties
Panasonic has expanded its 25-year warranty on solar panels to include labor on all components of the residential solar system, including the monitoring and...
Solar Steel Agrees to Supply Japanese PV Projects
Solar Steel, a division of Gonvarri Industries, has agreed to supply three new Japanese projects with its RackSmarT fixed-solar structure, extending the company’s capacity...
CIP Reaches First Close on CI IV Renewable Investment
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a Danish fund management company that specializes in investing in the energy infrastructure sector, has reached a €1.5 billion first...
UMD Researchers Receive Grant to Examine Solar, Agriculture
Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have been awarded nearly $500,000 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)...
AVANGRID Appoints New CEO
AVANGRID’s board of directors has appointed Dennis V. Arriola CEO, effective July 20. Arriola succeeds James P. Torgerson, who will retire on June 23.
Arriola...
REPlantSolutions to Provide PPC, SCADA for Solar Farms
REPlantSolutions, an Arizona-based company founded by First Solar alumni, has initiated operations as a power plant controls (PPC) and supervisory control and data acquisition...