Universal Renewables says it is expanding the availability of its elevated rooftop racking solutions to commercial buildings in Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the company offers building-specific design solutions based on a canopy system that allows for an increased number of solar panels on crowded urban rooftops. The patented technology, […]

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Freedom Solar Power, a Texas-based, residential and commercial solar power provider, has completed a solar installation for Parkway Auto Group at its Honda dealership in Dover, Ohio. This project is the first in a partnership that will see solar arrays installed at other Parkway dealerships as the company strives toward becoming 75% sustainable in the […]

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Luminia has executed a memorandum of understanding to acquire the assets, development resources and project pipeline of New Hampshire Solar Garden, including 15 MWs of community solar that the companies jointly closed in 2022. Luminia will now control and manage the developer’s community solar portfolio, totaling over 218 MWs. New Hampshire Solar Garden founder Andrew […]

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Tigo Energy, Inc., a provider of solar and energy storage solutions, has filed a lawsuit against the SunSpec Alliance in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. In the wake of a ruling in which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) upheld Tigo claims relevant to the SunSpec Alliance Rapid Shutdown Specification, […]

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Wärtsilä is in the final construction stages of the LeConte energy storage project, a 250 MWh system in Calexico, Calif., that Wärtsilä – as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor – is building for REV Renewables. The LeConte system was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission in early 2022 as part of a plan […]

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Thousand Trails has installed a new premium RV storage section topped with nearly 3,500 solar panels at the Wilderness Lakes Campground in Menifee, Calif. The site is topped with roughly 82,000 square feet of solar panels that produce approximately 2.4 million kWh of energy per year. The new facility, at 1.47 MW, will generate about […]

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A consortium comprising funds managed by Fiera Infrastructure Inc. and Palisade Infrastructure Group has agreed to jointly acquire 100% of the equity interests in Amp US Primary Holdings Inc., a U.S.-based renewable energy generation and battery storage business. Amp US develops, owns and operates of community solar and storage projects. Since entering the U.S. market […]

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CEP Renewables, CS Energy and NJR Clean Energy Ventures (CEV) have converted a former contaminated brownfield into a 17 MW solar project in Holland, N.J. The fixed-tilt solar array was constructed in two phases on a site that previously housed a paper mill complex. The successful remediation and redevelopment of this site has transitioned this […]

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Avantus has sold the Big Rock 1 energy storage project to Gore Street Energy Storage Fund, a London-based publicly traded fund managed by Gore Street Capital Ltd. The 200-megawatt (MW), two-hour (400 MWh) energy storage system will be one of the largest energy storage projects in Imperial County, Calif., complementing the county’s renewable energy resources […]

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Risen Energy says its HJT series solar module, Hyper-ion, has achieved a maximum power of 741.456 W and a module efficiency of 23.89%, verified by TÜV SÜD. The company says these numbers are an improvement on its previous record of 23.65% module efficiency, which was achieved in December 2021, therefore setting a new record for […]

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Growatt has completed the first phase of its new manufacturing plant in Haiphong, Vietnam, which will produce solar inverters, storage inverters and storage batteries, with an expansion plan to achieve an annual production capacity of 500,000 units of inverters and 100,000 units of batteries. “The opening of our Vietnam factory is an exciting milestone for […]

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The Gainesville City Commission has voted to authorize Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) to expand the size of Sand Bluff Solar, which is being developed by Origis Energy. The original power purchase agreement for Sand Bluff Solar was announced in July 2020 as a 50 MW solar project coupled with 12 MW of energy storage. The […]

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