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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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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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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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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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Solar Landscape to plan community solar projects for NSA self-storage properties

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:19:36 +0000

National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), a real estate group invested in self-storage properties, plans to partner with Solar Landscape to pursue installation of solar projects on NSA properties nationwide. The groups plan to develop at least 100 MW of solar capacity. NSA has granted Solar Landscape exclusive rights to evaluate approximately 1,000 of NSA’s properties…

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Aurora Solar develops AI-driven ‘keepout’ detection program for C&I projects

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:10:34 +0000

Aurora Solar will launch HelioScope Similar Obstruction Detection at RE+ next month. Built with Aurora Solar’s proprietary AI technology, HelioScope Similar Obstruction Detection streamlines the process of identifying and creating “keepouts” — or areas where modules should not be placed, such as over a skylight — for rooftop obstructions in commercial and industrial (C&I) solar…

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Clearway begins construction on latest solar + storage project in California

Kelly Pickerel — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:33:14 +0000

Clearway Energy Group has started construction on its Rosamond South I solar and storage project in Kern County, California. The 140-MW solar and 118-MW storage Rosamond South 1, which is referred to as Golden Fields Solar IV LLC by its offtakers, is under long-term contracts with several California load-serving entities, including 15-year agreements with MCE, The…

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Meyer Burger pulls plans for silicon cell manufacturing in US

Kelly Pickerel — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:02:47 +0000

Meyer Burger announced today that it was suspending planned construction of a silicon solar cell production facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as it is “no longer financially viable for the company.” The Swiss technology company first announced plans for a cell factory in July 2023. The 2-GW operations in a former Intel semiconductor fabrication plant…

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Former golf course now hosts 9.4-MW solar project in Rhode Island

Kelly Pickerel — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:26:06 +0000

Nexamp and TurningPoint Energy recently celebrated the completion of their collaboration on a 9.4-MW solar farm in Warren, Rhode Island. The solar farm, which includes two co-located solar arrays, represents a unique repurposing of acreage that was previously developed as a golf course. TPE developed the project, and Nexamp built, owns and operates it. Construction…

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Enel brings 326-MW solar, 86-MW storage project online for Nestlé in Texas

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:18:23 +0000

Enel North America has begun operations at the 326-MWDC Stampede solar + storage project in Hopkins County, Texas. Nestlé is the sole tax equity investor for the project and will also purchase the renewable energy attributes from the entire output of the solar plant. “The Stampede project will add more power generation to the grid…

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Citing recent surge in imports, American solar panel makers petition government for immediate relief

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:12:35 +0000

The American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee (AASMTC), the same group that requested an antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigation earlier this year on solar products coming from Southeast Asia, today filed “critical circumstances allegations” with the Dept. of Commerce regarding surges of solar imports from Vietnam and Thailand that are hurting the U.S. solar manufacturing industry.…

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NorSun to supply Heliene’s new US solar cell factory with silicon wafers

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:20:53 +0000

Minnesota-based solar panel manufacturer Heliene announced last month it would partner with Premier Energies to manufacture silicon solar cells within the state, and now the company has a domestic wafer supply established after signing a multi-year contract with NorSun. NorSun, which has been producing silicon wafers in Norway since 2007, intends to start a 5-GW…

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California solar installers get well-acquainted with batteries in NEM 3.0 era

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:00:33 +0000

California is regularly seen as a leader in clean energy, and no area of the country has more solar or energy storage deployments. Remarkably though, the attachment of batteries to residential solar installations has been low — until recently, only 10% of home solar systems in California also had batteries. New net-metering rules in the…

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Biden bumps number of silicon solar cells that can enter country tariff-free

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:26:59 +0000

President Biden is giving the domestic solar panel manufacturing market a break from tariffs on imported solar cells with the latest announcement from the White House. The president has modified actions taken earlier this year on tariffed crystalline silicon solar (CSPV) imports by increasing the amount of silicon solar cells that can enter the country…

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Vikram Solar unveils latest HJT bifacial module line

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:35:27 +0000

Vikram Solar has unveiled its latest solar panel line, Suryava. Inspired by the Sanskrit word “surya,” which means “sun,” the Survaya line of solar panels feature a bifacial design with heterojunction technology (HJT). Suryava uses G12 cells and 20 busbars to reach an efficiency exceeding 23%. “We are thrilled to introduce our new brand, Suryava,…

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