The Charlotte City Council says it has voted to participate in the Duke Energy Green Source Advantage (GSA) Program, which will enable the City of Charlotte to move forward with a 35 MW, utility-scale solar energy project. Charlotte’s participation in the program makes it the nation’s most populous city to acquire new renewable energy through […]
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo says he is advancing a 30-day budget amendment to speed up the permitting and construction of renewable energy projects, combat climate change and grow the state’s green economy. If adopted, the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act will create a new Office of Renewable Energy Permitting to improve and […]
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REC Group, an international solar energy company, says it has started to produce the 72-cell REC Alpha Series solar panel. The company claims the REC Alpha 72 Series will be the world’s most powerful 72-cell panel available on the market, reaching 450 Wp with a module efficiency of 21.3%, ensuring higher energy yields to drive […]
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Trimark Associates Inc., a provider of SCADA, metering and energy storage technology solutions for the electric power industry, says the Trimark Operations Center’s (TOC) advanced alerting system can now continually determine if devices are online and operating correctly. Trimark’s system monitors and checks the status of any device at a solar site to determine if […]
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A recent report shows that the U.S. residential solar market reached record highs in the third quarter of 2019, with 713 MW of solar installed, according to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The U.S. solar market added 2.6 GW of […]
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Trimark Associates Inc., a provider of SCADA, metering, and energy storage technology solutions for the electric power industry, says the Trimark Operations Center’s (TOC) advanced alerting system can now continually determine if devices are online and operating correctly. Trimark’s advanced alerting system monitors and checks the status of any device at a solar site to […]
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CIT Group Inc. says its Power and Energy business served as lead arranger for a $140 million financing for esVolta, a developer of utility-scale energy storage systems for renewable energy projects. The portfolio consists of more than 136 MW of energy storage units supporting eight energy projects in California. esVolta has long-term revenue contracts for […]
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Trina Solar Co. Ltd. says its global PV module shipments passed a new milestone in 2019, topping 10 GW for the year. According to the 2019 module shipment ranking released by PV InfoLink, Trina Solar ranked among the top three and maintained its global leadership in the category. In 2019, the company broke the world […]
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State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund), a provider of workers’ compensation insurance, and ENGIE North America Inc. say they have entered an agreement to build solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, energy storage systems and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across seven different State Fund locations throughout California. ENGIE and JLL jointly designed this comprehensive program to […]
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Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) says it has received preliminary approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to move ahead with plans to own an additional 50 MW of the Badger Hollow Solar Farm, known as Badger Hollow II. Badger Hollow is located in Iowa County, Wis., near the villages of Montfort and Cobb, […]
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Energy Materials Corp. (EMC), a global company that specializes in high-speed manufacturing of solar panels, says it has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with Corning Inc. Working together, the companies are focused on bringing low-cost, high-performance perovskite solar photovoltaic panels and products to market. The JDA focuses both companies’ respective capabilities using Corning’s flexible […]
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Energy Materials Corp. (EMC), a global company that specializes in high-speed manufacturing of high-performance solar energy panels, says it has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with Corning Inc. Working together, the companies are focused on bringing low-cost, high-performance perovskite solar photovoltaic panels and products to the energy industry. The JDA focuses both companies’ respective […]
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