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Central Contra Costa Sanitary District, REC Solar Partner on Array
The 2.16 MW solar array near Central San’s treatment plant in Martinez, Calif. (Source: PRNewswire) Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (Central San)…
Saft to increase density of lithium ESS to 5 MWh by 2026
Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has unveiled it will boost the energy density of its lithium battery energy storage system from 3.3…
Nextracker acquires solar foundations manufactuerer Ojjo
Nextracker, a global solar tracker and software solutions provider, has acquired Ojjo for approximately $119 million. Ojjo is a U.S.-based renewable energy…
State of New York seeks new large-scale renewable energy projects
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new large-scale renewable energy solicitation to deliver clean electricity to New Yorkers. Building on New York’s 10-Point…
Mid-Atlantic SREC aggregator Sun Tribe Trading rebrands as RECmint
Solar renewable energy certificate (SREC) aggregator RECmint announced it has rebranded and relaunched after doing business as Sun Tribe Trading since 2020….
Sheep, pigs being used for vegetation management on Virginia solar project
Energy Support Services, a wholly owned O&M subsidiary of New Energy Equity, has worked out a vegetation management plan for a DSD…
Energy Investments Failing to Keep World on Renewables Target, Says Report
Arnaud de Giovanni Despite last year’s surge of $1.8 trillion in clean energy investments worldwide, investment remains below what is needed to…
Recheck, SEIA Lead Launch of Industry Registry
Tim Trefren Recheck has launched its industry registry in partnership with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and solar finance, contractor and…
Recurrent Energy Closes Financing for 1,200 MWh Arizona Storage Project
Ismael Guerrero Recurrent Energy has secured $513 million in project financing for its 1,200 MWh Papago Storage project, located in Maricopa County,…
Canadian Solar, Lifestyle Solar Partner on California Residential Solar+Storage
Thomas Koerner Canadian Solar has entered into a partnership agreement with Lifestyle Solar to provide solar and energy storage solutions to California…
Summit Ridge Energy to Purchase 800 MW of Qcells Solar Panels
A Summit Ridge Energy community solar project located in Momence, Illinois using domestically manufactured Qcells panels Summit Ridge Energy has committed to…
Sungrow livestreams fire test on PowerTitan ESS system to show its safety
Sungrow recently livestreamed a fire test on its PowerTitan energy storage system. The test featured four PowerTitan 2.752-MWh systems, and the container…
Recheck launches industry registry of solar salespeople and installers
An example profile. Recheck, a verification platform for the residential solar industry, announced the launch of its industry registry in partnership with…
Origami Solar steel module frames find manufacturing home in US
Steel solar panel frame producer Origami Solar has secured a fully American supply chain, including working with three U.S. steel fabricators. The…
Oxford PV Releases Residential Solar Module with Record-Setting Efficiency
David Ward Oxford PV says it has achieved a record in solar efficiency with a 60-cell residential-size module, produced with the company’s…
SolarEdge Unveils Residential Solar+Storage Portfolio
Illustration: future design of SolarEdge residential portfolio unveiled at Intersolar 2024 (Photo: Business Wire) SolarEdge Technologies has debuted its next-generation, three-phase solar…
DuPont, Desun Introduce Flexible Solar Panels
Ryan Peng DuPont and Desun Energy have launched flexible solar panels featuring DuPont Tedlar frontsheet. “As a strategic partner of Desun, we’re…
Castillo Engineering Secures 56 MW Illinois Community Solar Project Portfolio Contract
A completed community solar projects by Castillo Engineering & Recon Corporation (Source: Castillo Engineering) Castillo Engineering has been selected as the engineer…
Maxeon Initiates Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Aiko, Partners
(Credit: Vyacheslav Argenberg) Maxeon Solar Technologies has initiated a patent infringement lawsuit in the Düsseldorf Local Division of the Court of First…
ComEd Distributes 1 GW of Solar
(Credit: Yulia Kolosova) ComEd says it has interconnected a total of 1 GW of distributed energy resources (DER) capacity to its grid. …
DoD Announces Two Solar Projects in North, South Carolina
Brendan Owens The Department of Defense (DoD) has partnered with Duke Energy to power five military installations in North and South Carolina…
USDA Funds Electric Cooperatives Bringing Renewables to Rural Colorado
Secretary Tom Vilsack The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is partnering in Colorado to deliver clean energy to rural areas of the…
Vesper Sells Gaucho and Nestlewood Solar Projects to Octopus Energy
Mark Rostafin Vesper Energy has sold two PJM assets, Gaucho Solar and Nestlewood Solar, to Octopus Energy Generation. The Nestlewood Solar project…
GAF Energy to Build Solar Roof Testing Facility
(Source: GAF Energy) GAF Energy is set to build a new solar roofing testing facility, as well as launch a round of…
Lion Energy POWERsave ESS caters to C&I market
Lion Energy launched its POWERsave Energy Storage Solutions (ESS) earlier this year. The solution includes the POWERsave Container Series and POWERsave Cabinet…
Utility-scale may make all the news, but DG solar is incredibly important
The United States reached a milestone in its energy journey last year when, for the first time, solar power accounted for more…
Planted Solar’s automated construction platform to be used on projects in Illinois
Automated construction startup Planted Solar just announced it has signed 11 MW of projects in the Chicago area with project developer Cultivate…
Final IRS prevailing wage rules encourage project labor agreements
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released final rules today on prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship (PWA)…
US energy storage installation market has record-breaking Q1
The U.S. energy storage market set a first-quarter record for capacity installed in Q1 2024, with 1,265 MW deployed across all segments….
Nextracker opens 2nd solar tracker plant in Las Vegas
Nextracker, a global manufacturer of solar trackers and related software solutions, and Unimacts, an industrial manufacturing and supply chain solutions provider, have…