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Suniva Supplies Landfill Solar Project At Military Base
Suniva Inc., a Georgia-based solar panel manufacturer and member company of Shunfeng International Clean Energy Ltd., has announced that its Optimus solar panels are producing energy...
TMEIC Receives UL Certification For 1,500 V Solar Inverter
Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp. (TMEIC) has announced that its Solar Ware Samurai 1,500 V photovoltaic inverter has achieved a UL 1741 safety certification,...
SunEdison CFO Designee Steps Down
As it continues moving through the Chapter 11 process, SunEdison Inc. has announced another leadership shakeup, this time on the bankrupt renewable energy company’s...
D.C. Renewables Legislation Includes Solar Focus
Washington, D.C., has taken another major step toward climate action, as the District of Columbia City Council unanimously approved legislation to expand the city’s...
SolarCity Forms Special Committee To Review Tesla Proposal
A week after electric vehicle (EV) and battery company Tesla Motors announced a proposal to acquire SolarCity, the solar company’s board of directors has...
Can YOU Get The U.S. Presidential Candidates To Go Solar?
Sungevity Inc., which says its “Globama Campaign” helped get solar panels put on the White House in 2014, is at it again – this...
Calif. Regulator Calls New Interconnection Model A ‘Win-Win-Win’
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has adopted a new model and five-year pilot process meant to speed interconnection of renewable and distributed energy resources to...
Montana Governor Releases Energy Blueprint With Solar Goals
Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Mont., has announced a new blueprint for Montana’s energy future. It calls for a “balanced and responsible energy future in Montana”...
Army Recruits SunPower To Provide Solar In Alabama
This month, SunPower Corp. expects to start construction on a 10 MW solar PV project for the Redstone Arsenal U.S. Army post in Alabama....
AET Provides Solar Racking For 5 MW Puerto Rican Project
Applied Energy Technologies (AET) has announced the completion of a 5 MW solar project with Rosendin Construction Puerto Rico LLC in Juncos, Puerto Rico. The installation,...
Imec Bifacial Solar Cells Demonstrate Near 100% Bifaciality
During this week’s Intersolar Europe event, nanoelectronics research center Imec has presented at an efficient bifacial n-PERT (BiPERT) solar cell featuring a bifaciality value close to...
Hanwha Sets Efficiency Record For Multicrystalline Solar Module
South Korea-based panel maker Hanwha Q CELLS Co. Ltd. has announced a world-record-breaking multicrystalline solar module efficiency. The company says the Fraunhofer ISE CalLab...
SolarMax Rolls Out All-In-One, Fully Integrated Energy Storage System
Riverside, Calif.-based SolarMax Technology is bringing to the U.S. market what the company calls an all-in-one, fully integrated energy storage system, the FLEX.
SolarMax says it will...
Report: Price Of PV-Generated Power Could Drop More Than Half By 2025
With the right regulatory frameworks in place, the average costs for electricity generated by solar and wind technologies could decrease 26% to 59% globally...
New UC Berkeley Building Gets Fitted With Sunpreme Bifacial Solar Panels
Sungevity has installed Sunpreme bifacial PV panels on the roof of Jacobs Hall, the brand-new home for the University of California, Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation...
ABB Links Massive Solar Project To Indian Grid
Switzerland-based technology company ABB has commissioned five substations to integrate a 648 MW solar project at Kamuthi in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to...
LG Chem Batteries Power Large Storage System In Ohio
LG Chem has announced that it supplied its lithium-ion batteries for a recently completed 7 MW/3 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Village...
Colorado Solar Advocates Protest Utility Rate Proposal
Editor’s note: This item has been updated to include comments from Xcel Energy.
On Thursday, dozens of Colorado solar energy workers, customers and advocates gathered...
Environment America Plans Public-Education Campaign On 100% Renewables
Environment America Research & Policy Center says it will deploy hundreds of door-knockers this summer in a multimillion-dollar effort to educate Americans about the possibility of...
Groups Call On N.Y. Regulators To ‘Put Community Solar Back On Track’
A coalition of solar industry stakeholders says it has called on the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) to put the state’s stalled Community Distributed Generation...