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Ordinance Would Mandate Solar On New Buildings In San Francisco
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has introduced legislation to require that solar panels be installed on new residential and commercial buildings constructed in the...
Global Solar PV Capacity To Exceed 310 GW By Year-End: IHS
By the end of this year, cumulative global installed solar photovoltaic capacity will surpass 310 GW, compared with just 40 GW at the end...
Researchers Hit ‘Critical Milestone’ For CdTe Solar Cells
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) says it and partners have reached a critical milestone in cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar...
Partners Start Building 5.3 MW Of Solar In New York
Dynamic Energy Solutions, a turnkey solar engineering and construction company, and SunStream Hudson, which owns and operates solar projects, have begun building 5.3 MW...
Tecta America Sells Solar Business To Onyx Renewable Partners
Tecta America, a national commercial roofing company, has sold its Tecta Solar division to Onyx Renewable Partners LP, a renewable energy company established by...
Ingeteam Adds To Family Of Three-Phase String Inverters
Ingeteam has expanded its INGECON SUN 3Play series of solar PV three-phase string inverters, with its latest models now offering output power of up...
Cenergy Power Wins Solar Deals From Two Electric Cooperatives
Cenergy Power, a California-based engineering, procurement and construction firm, has been selected to engineer and build utility-scale solar photovoltaic projects for two generation and...
Co-op To Buy Power From A Dozen New Wisconsin Solar Projects
Dairyland Power Cooperative, which provides wholesale electricity to 25 member distribution cooperatives and 17 municipal utilities, has finalized contracts with two developers to purchase...
Suniva Partners With DMSolar On 2 MW In Mexico
Suniva Inc., a Georgia-based manufacturer of crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, recently partnered with solar distributor DMSolar on several solar projects in Mexico...
PG&E ‘Far Surpassed’ State Renewable Energy Goal
San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has announced that nearly 30% of the power it delivers to its customers now comes...
SMA Unveils Second-Generation Solar Inverter Racking Solution
SMA has released the second generation of its ReadyRack all-in-one inverter, rack and disconnect solution for commercial rooftop solar PV. Specifically designed for the...
SolarCity Establishes $249 Million Solar Project Finance Fund
California-based SolarCity Corp. has created a new tax equity fund to finance $249 million in solar projects. Although SolarCity has not disclosed its financing...
Southern Co. Enters Acquisition Deal With PowerSecure International
Atlanta-based energy company Southern Co. has announced a definitive merger agreement to acquire PowerSecure, a North Carolina-based provider of distributed generation, energy efficiency and...
Xcel And Community Solar Developers Reach Settlement In Colorado
Following claims that Xcel Energy wasn't doing enough to further community solar in Colorado, the utility has announced a settlement agreement with solar developers...
As States Examine Solar Policies, Net Metering Faces ‘Unprecedented Uncertainty’
Forty-six states took some form of solar policy action in 2015, and almost 30 of them considered or enacted changes to net-metering rules, according...
L.A. Port Adds 1.2 MW Solar Project Under City’s FIT Program
On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti joined Councilmember Joe Buscaino and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to announce the...
EDF Completes Commercial Battery Storage Project In Illinois
EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) has announced that the McHenry Storage Project reached commercial operation on Dec. 20. The company says the energy storage...
NV Energy Seeks Lots Of New Capacity, Including Renewable Power
Nevada-based NV Energy has issued two requests for proposals (RFPs): one seeking a total of 135 MW of renewable energy and another looking for...
teamtechnik Announces New High-Speed Solar Cell Stringer
Germany-based teamtechnik has introduced its Stringer TT2100, a single-track stringer system that the company says solders solar cells in a 1.7-second cycle, or at...
California School District Expects To Save Millions With Solar Deal
The Escondido Union High School District (EUHSD) and SunPower Corp. have announced a power purchase agreement (PPA) under which SunPower will build 2 MW...