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Bureau of Land Management proposes 31 million acres of western land for solar development

Billy Ludt — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:52:04 +0000

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced its proposed roadmap for solar energy development on public lands, designed to expand efficient and environmentally responsible solar project permitting on public lands across the West. Today’s release of the Final Utility-Scale Solar Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendments (also known as…

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Zero6 Energy taps Radian Digital to manage renewable energy projects

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:51:40 +0000

Radian Generation has announced the deployment of Radian Digital, a software platform that manages the life cycle of renewable energy projects, with Zero6 Energy. “We are thrilled to be working with the Zero6 Energy team to support them in streamlining business processes and optimizing power generation across a diverse portfolio of solar, wind, hydrogen, microgrids,…

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Yaskawa Solectria to showcase utility-scale string inverter at RE+

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:06:16 +0000

Yaskawa Solectria Solar announced it will display its newest made-in-America utility-scale inverter, the SOLECTRIA XGI 1500-DCG RE+ 2024, from September 9-12 in Anaheim, California. The SOLECTRIA XGI 1500 DCG Series utility-scale inverter is designed to optimize the output of First Solar’s thin-film PV modules with an electrically grounded DC input, ensuring optimal performance and longevity.…

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New California legislation aims to update electrical grid for renewables

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:39:48 +0000

The California Assembly passed legislation on Wednesday by a 58:0 vote to increase efficiency of the state’s electric grid and speed up the deployment of renewable energy resources in California. SB 1006 will require utilities to study the feasibility of grid enhancing technologies (GETs) and advanced conductors and then file a report with the California…

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Maxeon will offer warranty support to SunPower systems after installer’s bankruptcy

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:10:29 +0000

For SunPower Corp. customers in the United States concerned about their product warranties now that the installation company has filed bankruptcy, panel manufacturer Maxeon is stepping in with a solution. For SunPower systems installed by SunPower dealers that use SunPower-branded solar panels made by Maxeon, Maxeon will provide warranty coverage support on the solar panels.…

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Dynamic Energy completes almost-1-MW rooftop solar project in Pennsylvania

Kelsey Misbrener — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:10:05 +0000

Dynamic Energy has completed a 907-kW commercial rooftop solar project with Cooper-Booth Wholesale Co., a full-service distributor for convenience store merchandise in the Mid-Atlantic. Situated on 61,000 ft2 of industrial rooftop located at the company’s Mountville, Pennsylvania warehouse and headquarters, the project will offset Cooper-Booth’s rising energy costs while driving the company’s green energy initiatives.…

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Encore Renewable Energy, GreenSpark Solar collaborate on agrivoltaic project

Billy Ludt — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:49:48 +0000

Encore Renewable Energy has partnered with EPC GreenSpark Solar on 3.6-MW agrivoltaic solar project sited in Constable, New York. Constable Solar is Encore’s first solar project in New York in a 90-MW pipeline of under development solar projects. “With New York’s ambitious clean energy goals and an evolving energy supply market that is finding renewables…

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Longtime First Solar component supplier to open new factory in Louisiana

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:27:55 +0000

One of First Solar’s longtime component manufacturing partners will establish a new production facility in Lacassine, Louisiana to support First Solar’s upcoming 3.5-GW solar panel manufacturing site in the state. Ice Industries, a heavy metals contract manufacturer first established in Ohio, will invest $6 million into a new production facility that will initially focus on…

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Summit Ridge, Trajectory Energy break ground on 6.2-MW Illinois community solar project

Billy Ludt — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:28:27 +0000

Summit Ridge Energy, a commercial solar company, and Trajectory Energy Partners, an Illinois-based community solar developer, broke ground at the Rock Cut Solar project in Rockford, Illinois. The project, owned and operated by Summit Ridge, is a 6.2-MW Community-Driven Community Solar (CDCS) project developed by Trajectory and expected to be operational by Q3 2025. “We’re…

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AEROCOMPACT debuting adaptable flat roof solar racking at RE+

Billy Ludt — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:01:42 +0000

Photovoltaic mounting system manufacturer AEROCOMPACT is launching a brand new long-side clamping system for flat roofs at RE+, the largest clean energy event in North America, next month. S_Base has been developed to work on different types of flat roofs, even with uneven surfaces and soft insulations. The design is meant to increase assembly speed,…

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enSights announces storage calculator to instantly generate financial projections

Kelsey Misbrener — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:00:09 +0000

enSights announced it is launching a new BESS calculator to empower developers and asset owners to fully benefit from the massive energy storage sector by optimizing battery sizing for maximized financial returns based on energy market and grid support opportunities. By replacing costly and labor-intensive BESS system design, the calculator instantaneously generates financial projections and…

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11% of K-12 students in US attend schools that use solar power

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:00:12 +0000

The amount of solar capacity installed at K-12 schools has more than quadrupled nationwide in the last decade, according to a new report from clean energy nonprofit Generation180. The report, “Brighter Future: A Study of Solar on K-12 Schools, 5th edition,” found that over 6.2 million U.S. K-12 students – or more than one-in-nine students…

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Ingeteam supplies central inverters to two Texas solar projects

Kelsey Misbrener — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:48:09 +0000

Ingeteam announced it has supplied central inverters for two Acciona Energy projects located in Wharton and Fort Bend counties outside of Houston, Texas. The first project, with a capacity of 317 MWAC, consists of 48 transformer stations equipped with 185 Ingeteam central inverters. This is the first large-scale project to be installed and commissioned by…

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California Public Advocates Office suggests changes for legacy NEM customers

Kelsey Misbrener — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:45:48 +0000

The California Public Advocates Office (PAO) in late August published a factsheet on net metering that asserts the state’s rooftop solar incentives will cost customers without solar an estimated $8.5 billion by the end of the year. The PAO is a state entity tasked with advocating for the lowest possible bills for customers of California’s…

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Stäubli unveils large-format PV connectors

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:15:15 +0000

Stäubli Electrical Connectors has introduced a new product family of large-format PV cable connectors. The new BosCon connectors are fully cULus listed to UL 6703 and CSA C22.2 182.5, “Connectors for use in Photovoltaic Systems.” They are designed for carrying high current in harsh and outdoor environments in the PV energy and EV industries. BosCon…

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