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| Aug 12, 2026 | Renewable America and Renewable America Services Named to 2026 Top Solar Contractors List | Picture of the largest new build solar and storage project on California's North Coast.
Renewable America Companies Underscore How Community-Scale Solar plus Storage Projects Are Gaining Market Traction
Being recognized as both a top develo... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Samsung SDI Buys GM’s Indiana Battery Stake, Turns Blank-Slate Shell Into US Grid Base | By William Chan
Published: Aug 11 2026, 10:39 AM EDT
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| Aug 6, 2026 | Ipsun Solar & Green Rack Solar Earn National Recognition in Solar Power World's 2026 Top Solar Contractors List | Green Rack Solar and Ipsun Solar both recognized as top solar contractors in Solar Power World's 2026 annual rankings.
Civic Renewables' operating companies earn top statewide and national rankings, reflecting continued growth and investmen... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Polysilicon Price Floor: Trump Targets China’s Grip on Chips and Solar | By Jerry Owens
Published: Aug 04 2026, 3:00 PM EDT
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| Jul 29, 2026 | Pivot Energy Recognized as Solar Power World’s Top 2026 Solar Contractor for 7th Time | Company ranks in Top 10 on 2026’s National Solar Developers and Community Solar Contractors Lists
Being recognized on Solar Power World’s Top Solar Contractors list ranking is a testament to Pivot Energy’s strength, our people, our culture,... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | TENCO SOLAR is named a 2026 Top Solar Contractor for a second consecutive year | TENCO SOLAR is a Top Solar Contractor
TENCO SOLAR is recognized on the 2026 Top Solar Contractors List for a second consecutive year for its commercial solar installations in California.
We look forward to another year of helping California... |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Sunspear Energy Named to Solar Power World’s 2026 Top Solar Contractors List, Climbs to No. 199 Nationally | Solar Power World 2026 Top Contractor
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Hawaii-based solar company rises 128 spots nationally and moves to No. 2 among Hawaii solar developers
This recognition reflects the hard work, expertise, and commitment our employees br... |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Obodo Energy Partners named a 2026 Top Solar Contractor | Obodo Energy Partners CEO John Mitman and partner Chris Mejia.
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Obodo Energy Partners is recognized on the 2026 Top Solar Contractors List for its continued work de... |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Artisun Solar Named a 2026 Top Solar Contractor | Artisun Solar logo celebrating 15 years
Solar Power World recognizes Artisun Solar as a top-five U.S. commercial solar installer, highlighting 15 years of commercial solar expertise. LENEXA, KAN., KS, UNITED STATES, July 22, 2026 /EINPressw... |
| Jun 21, 2026 | Fraunhofer ISE Breaks Solar Module Efficiency Record at Intersolar Europe 2026 Show | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jun 21 2026, 11:28 AM EDT
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| Jul 24, 2025 | Artisun Solar Named a 2025 Top Solar Contractor | Artisun Solar Logo
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Drone shot of solar array installed by Artisun Solar on the MOCAP roof. OVERLAND PARK, KS, UNITED STATES, July 24, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Artisun Solar, a leade... |
| Jul 23, 2025 | Obodo Energy Partners, LLC Named a Top Solar Contractor in the U.S. for 2025 | Obodo Energy Partners, LLC - Spark Community
CEO John Mitman and CDO Chris Mejia with Solar Power World's Magazine.
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Obodo Energy has been named a 2025 Top Solar Contractor, ranking No. 198 for advancing clean ener... |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Pivot Energy Recognized as Solar Power World’s Top 2025 Solar Contractor, Again | Pivot Energy ranks Top 10 in 2025’s Top Solar Contractor for community solar project development
This recognition highlights not just the scale of what Pivot accomplished in the last year, but how we continue to make renewable energy more a... |
| Jan 11, 2025 | Netflix перешел от защиты к нападению в патентном споре, компании борются за технологии солнечных панелей: дайджест | Nokia зарегистрировала 7000 патентов, касающиеся 5G, Nvidia делает шаг в сторону новых очков дополненной реальности, а Китай наращивает число патентов на изобретения. Рассказываем в нашем дайджесте про эти и другие важные новости в сфере ин... |
| Nov 14, 2024 | China Matters' Feature: China's Shift to Innovation-Driven Growth | BEIJING, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new episode of the Keywords to Understand China series, podcast host Jason Smith explains the concept of "new quality productive forces" and its significance in China's shift toward an i... |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Virtue Solar of Virginia Recognized by Two Outlets for Outstanding Solar Installation | Makes the cut for EUPD U.S. Installer Award & Solar Power World Magazine’s Top Solar Contractor List
It’s always nice to be recognized and receive awards. But more importantly, it’s evidence of doing things the right way, using reliable... |
| Aug 20, 2024 | Pivot Energy Receives Two Notable Renewable Industry Leadership Awards | Angie Burke receiving her Agrivoltaics Champion of the Year Award
Solar Power World’s Top Solar Contractor in 2024 and North American Agrivoltaics 2024 Champion of the Year DENVER, CO, UNITED STATES, August 20, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Pi... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | U.S. Light Energy Achieves Prestigious Recognition: Top Solar Developer Based in NY, Sixth in Nation for Community Solar | New York-based USLE also ranks 18th nationwide in all solar development, according to rankings just released by leading industry publication Solar Power World LATHAM, NY, UNITED STATES, July 30, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- U.S. Light Energy ... |
| Jul 29, 2024 | SolarAmerica Named 2024 Top Solar Sales Partner, Expands Reach Across 16 States | SolarAmerica is recognized for exceptional sales performance, experienced professionals, and commitment to quality products and customer satisfaction. NEW ORLEANS, LA, UNITED STATES, July 29, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Solar Power World's a... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Дом, где родился Томас Эдисон, теперь питается от солнечной энергии | Дом-музей Томаса Эдисона в штате Огайо с недавних пор питается от системы солнечных панелей, установленных на крыше. Система с номинальной мощностью 7,13 киловатт стала совместным подарком музею от четырёх компаний: SolarEdge, Meyer Burger,... |
| Oct 18, 2023 | Tesla’s solar business is tanking but energy storage is making up for it | By the megawatt, solar installations are outpacing other energy sources in the U.S. this year — but you wouldn’t know it judging from Tesla’s latest reports.
Once among the top three residential installers in the nation, Tesla’s solar busin... |
| Oct 9, 2023 | Fate of solar self-consumption on the line in California this week (UPDATE) | Fate of solar self-consumption on the line in California this week (UPDATE)
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| May 31, 2023 | North America Becomes the Fastest-Growing Regional Market for New Battery Facilities in 2022 | Inno Flores, Tech Times 31 May 2023, 11:05 pm
As per the Market Intelligence Report by Clean Energy Associates, North America became the growth leader for planned new battery cell manufacturing factories in 2022. This report provides a thor... |
| May 4, 2023 | NeoVolta Approved for Partnership by GoodLeap, the Top U.S. Financer for Solar and Sustainable Tech | “GoodLeap’s low financing rates will allow more homeowners to enjoy years of utility savings and long-lasting blackout protection with NeoVolta energy storage.” Brent Willson, CEO of NeoVolta.
SAN DIEGO (PRWEB) May 04, 2023
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| Feb 20, 2023 | Florida Unveils Biggest Rooftop Solar System | April Fowell, Tech Times 20 February 2023, 11:02 pm
SALT Energy has recently installed the largest rooftop solar system in Florida, as reported by Electrek.
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PALMETTO BAY, FL - JANUARY 23: Roger Garbey and A... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Sunstall Launches Vertical Solar System for Farms, Agricultural Settings | Inno Flores, Tech Times 09 February 2023, 08:02 pm
California-based installer Sunstall launched its new vertical solar system to help farmers harvest the sun twice. Sunzaun is designed for farms as it is ideal for agricultural applications.... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Rosendin Renewable Energy Group Recognized Among Most Influential in Solar Energy | Rosendin installs solar panels at one of the largest renewable energy facilities in California
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tours Townsite Solar and Storage in Nevada
Rosendin installed over 1,429 MWdc of solar energy in 2021
Rosendin... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | US Department of Commerce delays preliminary AD/CVD decision following Auxin Solar request | The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has delayed its preliminary decision into its investigation into alleged circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) by solar manufacturers in Southeast Asia following a request by Aux... |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Sunny Energy Takes Top Spot on 2022 Top Solar Contractors List | Sunny Energy Solar Installation In Phoenix TEMPE, AZ, UNITED STATES, August 22, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Sunny Energy Takes Top Spot on 2022 Top Solar Contractors List
Despite concerns over supply chain interruptions and tariff investigat... |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Solar America Takes Top Spot on 2022 Top Solar Contractors List | The utility-scale solar market, of course, puts up huge installation numbers each year, but the majority of workers in the industry are constructing projects in the commercial and residential markets, which continue to break records
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| Jul 26, 2022 | SOLV Energy Takes Top Spot on 2022 Top Solar Contractors List | SOLV Energy employs over 700 full-time employees across the U.S. SOLV Energy was ranked the No. 1 Solar Contractor overall in the latest release of Solar Power World's annual list, installing 1943.2 megawatts of utility solar capacity in si... |
| Jun 7, 2022 | With Over $2.5BN In Capital - This VC Is Pushing The Future Of ClimateTech | While many investors grapple with signs of a potential global bear market, one sector continues to attract waves of capital, talent, and attention: the decarbon economy. Energy Impact Partners (EIP) is helping set that pace. Having just clo... |
| May 16, 2022 | Вслед за солнцем. О гелиотропии и подвижности солнечных батарей | Солнечные батареи кажутся мне одним из самых интересных изобретений XIX века, значительно опередивших свое время. В них сочетается простейшая, бионическая по сути идея (будем ловить солнечную энергию напрямую, как это делается в солнечных л... |
| May 5, 2022 | These batteries work from home | It seems as though everyone is talking about electric vehicle batteries lately. Automakers are racing to make these batteries more powerful so they can convince more people to buy EVs, and the Biden administration is spending billions to ma... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | Utilities commission delays vote on controversial California solar proposal | In an unsurprising move, the California Public Utilities Commission has postponed a vote on a controversial proposal that would dramatically change the way the state’s 1.3 million rooftop solar customers get compensated when their systems p... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | ADT To Expand Its Residential Footprint With Acquisition of Sunpro Solar and Launch ADT Solar™ | Combination will leverage ADT’s national reach, high brand awareness and trust, coupled with cross-selling opportunities to accelerate expansion of solar and establish “ADT Solar” as a residential market leader
ADT to offer consumers soluti... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Soft Costs: The Key to Accelerating U.S. Residential Solar Uptake | Projected to power 40 percent of the U.S. power grid by 2035, solar energy is integral to America’s low-carbon transition. Distributed solar—residential solar in particular—is expected to be an important driver of this growth. |
| Sep 22, 2021 | Brooklyn SolarWorks Completes 1,000th Rooftop Solar System Installation | Brooklyn SolarWorks, a leading residential solar system design and installation provider, today announced the completion of its 1,000th installation with many hundreds of those installations custom designed to meet stringent landmark proper... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Brooklyn SolarWorks Completes 1,000th Rooftop Solar System Installation | It is extremely fulfilling to know that we've installed 1000 solar systems here in NYC - each one has been a gratifying experience of "flipping the switch" to clean solar energy, said T.R. Ludwig, CEO and Founder, Brooklyn SolarWo... |
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| May 7, 2021 | Solar 101: How to find … and evaluate … a solar contractor for your rooftop project | The first articles of our Solar 101 series, (“Is my roof ready for solar?”) and (“Attaching your solar system to your roof”) examined how the age and physical characteristics of a roof affect the design and payback of a prospective solar sy... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | Neighborhood Power Partners with Mana Monitoring to Manage Landmark Community Solar Project in Oregon | Community solar projects like this help contribute to a healthier environment for the entire community, and Mana Monitoring helps us ensure our solar farms reach peak performance and generate the expected returns we can pass on to subscribe... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Why We’re Continuing to Invest in DroneDeploy | Energize Ventures is excited to share a new milestone in our partnership with DroneDeploy, the leading enterprise drone data company. Energize co-led the company’s $50 million Series E financing with AirTree. Other investors in the round in... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Mixed-Asset VPPs Are Key To Supporting California Clean Energy Goals | By: Jessie Mehrhoff |
| Apr 30, 2020 | Let’s Invest In An Energy Future That Preserves The Economy – And Life On This Planet | Getty Images |
| Mar 8, 2020 | As The World Turns To Solar Power, Black Chicagoans Jump On The Bandwagon | When Cheryl Johnson was a child, her mother would cover the kitchen table with index cards showing all the people who had died in Altgeld Gardens, their Chicago public housing complex. |
| Feb 12, 2020 | Morning Brief: 160 MW coming to Oregon, Vision Solar Expands to Massachusetts | 162 MW announced in Oregon: Portland General Electric and Avangrid Renewables are partnering on a 162 MW solar project in Gilliam County. The project will be the largest in Oregon. The electricity and RECs generated by the project will go t... |
| Feb 3, 2020 | The Future Of US Solar Is Bright | Solar cell power engineer technician checks the maintenance of the solar panels.Getty |
| Dec 13, 2019 | Hardware brief: California battery discounts, Dr. Nick!, commercial rooftop bifacial data, more! | As a residential salesperson, PVWatts was good enough. In the largest projects, with the highest level financial acumen, little solar nuances found within 1 sq squares can be the financial difference. Haven’t yet used tools like this, but s... |
| Dec 6, 2019 | Hardware brief: Solar panel walking shoes, poly modules dying?, Trina poly bifacial breaks record, more! | Much like CAISO, Vermont and a few others other states, LADWP has now simplified hardware requirements for installing solar, and we can expect to see further integrations of solar into the home (electric panels) and (power company tapping y... |
| Aug 16, 2019 | LONGi shingled module, Soltec bifacial simulations, Campbell Scientific solar albedo, more! | Solar albedo services using Campbell Scientific in this story’s featured image. I’ve never actually had a project request that, they’ve trusted my dialed back NREL data – “Another completed solar / albedo assessment station! Contact me to l... |
| Aug 13, 2019 | Apple picks single axis trackers and bifacial solar panels (w/pictures!) | Apple is one of the leading corporate renewable energy purchasers in the United States, with global 100% clean energy goals. When asked whether clean energy hurt the company’s bottom line, Apple CEO Tim Cook responded bluntly:
If you want m... |
| Dec 17, 2018 | Solar on schools advances with open source contracting | School board members raised legitimate concerns about a proposal to put solar on five schools in Arlington, Virginia. What would teachers and parents think, for example, if the school system put resources into solar that could instead be us... |
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| Nov 10, 2017 | Aquam Raises $26M to Expand Tech, Services for Aging Infrastructure | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Aquam, a San Diego company with technology for cleaning out and re-lining aging utility pipelines, has raised $26 million in a growth capital round led by NewWorld Capital Gro... |
| May 1, 2017 | Tesla pulls the plug on SolarCity door-to-door sales | Kevin Krecji reader comments 78 with 51 posters participating
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| Mar 20, 2017 | Polis Started with a Door-Knocking App for Politicians — Now It's Selling to Businesses | When Kendall Tucker founded Polis, it started as a door-to-door canvassing app to help politicians keep better track of their door-knocking campaigns during elections. Using a data-driven approach to help political campaigns knock on the ri... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Innovators and Influencers: Nancy Pfund, investing in companies that do good | Many venture capital firms invest in clean energy, and some talk about the benefits of investing with social impacts in mind. But there’s only one Nancy Pfund. Nancy is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners. DBL is an ac... |
| Aug 1, 2014 | How Tesla’s battery ‘Gigafactory’ could change everything — not just electric cars | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Serial entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to making waves in the technology sector.
Earlier this year he decide... |
| Aug 1, 2014 | How Tesla’s battery ‘Gigafactory’ could change everything — not just electric cars | Serial entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to making waves in the technology sector.
Earlier this year he decided to allow anyone to, “in good faith,” make use of the automaker’s patent portfolio without fear of being... |
| Meet the Creator Agency of the Year: Whalar | In February, Martha Stewart took to TikTok for the first time to give people her tips on posting thirst traps. The video, which taps into the platform’s trend of using the text-to-speech feature, was part of an ad campaign for french makeup... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Battery plus solar pricing from NREL, South Australia with largest battery plus solar, more | New NREL report details installed costs and deployment barriers for residential solar+storage – If you really want to do some research on what your battery system is going to cost, and why, start here. NREL reports are always top notch – I ... |
| A Swiss solar company announces a new production facility in Arizona | Swiss solar technology company Meyer Burger announced today that it is opening a production facility for high-performance solar modules in Goodyear, Arizona – its first factory in the US, and its first outside of Europe. Solar module produc... |
| Electrek green energy brief: US solar capacity to triple in 5 years, $200B in clean energy in 2016, Sunrun +39%, more | US Solar total solar capacity expected to triple in next five years – If we were to double every 2.5 years, solar would take over all energy on the planet in about 20 years, tripling every five years is a bit slower of a rate – but still aw... |
| American solar panel manufacturer closes shop, others announcing growth – all awaiting Trump’s Suniva ruling | Stion Solar, an American manufacturer of thin-film solar panels with a factory located in Mississippi, confirmed that they’re going to ‘discontinue’ operations. The manufacturing facility has 75MW/year of manufacturing capacity active that’... |
| EGEB: Renewables made up all new US electricity generating capacity in April | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
New US electricity generation capacity in April 2020? 100% renewables.
With the right policies, the US could reach 90% clean energy by 2035.
India’s first solar ferry is shortlisted in the Gust... |
| EGEB: ‘Addio Coal!’ – Italy, 32% solar cell licensed, robot solar manufacturing, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
Italy proposes phasing out coal power plants by 2025 – “We have asked (grid company) Terna to iden... |
| Coal-hungry Indiana’s largest-capacity solar farm is about to come online | Houston-headquartered renewables company EDP Renewables North America has completed a 200-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Randolph County, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis. It’s now the largest-capacity solar farm in Indiana.
UnderstandSolar ... |
| EGEB: 116GW of utility scale Wind/Solar coming to USA, solar asset acquisition up, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source.
FERC: 116 GW of Solar and Wind Utility Scale Generation Additions by 2020 – By 2020, proposed ad... |
| EGEB: Massachusetts residential demand charge, Washington carbon tax legislation, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Massachusetts becomes first state commission to approve mandatory demand charges for residential solar customers – A de... |
| EGEB: Tesla skips ‘green bonds’; French solar+storage 40% price drop; Arizona corruption?; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
French island tenders push down solar-plus-storage prices by 40% – The 67 projects that include PV panels and batteries ... |
| EGEB: Australia solar and wind applications up 50X, solar electricity up 39% in USA in 2017, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Tesla solar shingles sold out ‘well into 2018’ – Mr. Musk need only sell enough solar shingles to sell out his factories... |
| Electrek green energy brief: WorldBank loan at 0.25% for 750MW, Trump says no to ‘carbon tax’, more | 750MW solar park to get 0.25% loan from World Bank – This is just below the going rate for banks that borrow directly from the United States (or really rich people who have hard collateral). The World Bank does have political reasons for gi... |
| Electrek green energy brief: 850MW of solar from space, Bubba loves solar, customized solar panels, more | NASA takes a cool picture – Link is to NASA’s website, with an easy before and after comparison system. 850MW of solar PV, some mountains, and a river from space. Pretty cool.
Co-location of solar & pollinator friendly plants – NREL did... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Society paying $1.30/gallon, pictures of India’s 650MW, Tesla battery network, and more | Pretty pictures of India’s 650MW solar power plant – These pictures don’t do the scale of this site justice. The picture of the Chinese solar fishery were 1/3 this system size. 500,000 sq kilometers would be needed to power all the world – ... |
| Renewables will be the leading source of US electricity by 2030 | By 2030, renewables will collectively surpass natural gas to be the predominant source of electricity generation in the US, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2021. But that’s not enough.
The... |
| EGEB: US solar hardware manufacturing + hypocrisy, Bloomberg drops $200M on mayors, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
California Lawmakers Model an Electric Car Program After the State’s Successful Solar Initiative – This bill would conti... |
| EGEB: Solar ‘microtracking’; Iowa solar subdivision; New York and Illinois court win; $9B blown; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Why Court Victories for New York, Illinois Nuclear Subsidies Are a Big Win for Renewables – In times when we have a Depa... |
| Florida company using ‘solar cell of the future’ to develop 500W, ~24% efficient panel | Solartech Universal is a South Florida solar panel manufacturer that started with a family discussion in the kitchen in 2012. Sometime in 2018 or 2019, if all goes well, they’re going to launch a ~24% efficient, 480-500W glass on glass bifa... |
| EGEB: Take 72% – then let them beg for it, T-Mobile to 100%, NREL strikes again, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source.
Colorado’s NREL — a workhorse in national solar, wind research — faces “devastating” cuts in Tru... |
| Four new solar panel technologies in pictures | The newest solar panel technology was on display at Solar Power International in Las Vegas. The biggest attention getters were higher efficiencies and bifacial – but there are other technologies- cut cells, string ribbons, anti-soiling coat... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Oil stocks for solar?, Solar=grid stability in California, battery charging by light, more | Saudi Aramco selling $500B (?) in stock, investing $5B of it in solar – Groups representing $60 trillion (wow) in investment capital have pledged ‘to incorporate environmental, social and governance factors, known as ESG, into their investm... |
| JinkoSolar and Fraunhofer ISE break solar efficiency records for everyday solar panels | Solar panel manufacturer JinkoSolar has broken the record for solar cell efficiency for the most commonly used type of solar cells – 22.04% for a P-type multicrystalline product. Near concurrently, solar research facility Fraunhofer ISE has... |
| EGEB: Solar Decathlon in Colorado, climate change to cost $2.2T/year, Moore’s Law and solar power, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Solar Decathlon Teams Enter Construction Phase; Readying for October Competition – U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decat... |
| EGEB: Americans want mandatory rooftop solar, Trump EPA rule not saving coal, and more | In today’s EGEB:
The majority of Americans support mandatory rooftop solar, according to recent surveys.
The Affordable Clean Energy rule isn’t showing any signs of saving coal plants.
India’s renewable energy workforce quintuples.
Solar in... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Jimmy Carter installing solar, Solarworld laying off 900, Conservative argument for solar, more | Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) – Nation’s largest being built: Tesla’s solar shingle is BIPV, and everything ONYX Solar does is BIPV. If our structures contain the solar panels, instead of us having to build them on later – 1. We’... |
| EGEB: Solar job losses coming to USA (actually, already here), energy storage at 4¢/kWh, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Swinerton puts solar workers at forefront of new website as threat of job losses in US mounts – SRE said that the Swiner... |
| Industrial roofs will host New Jersey’s largest community solar project | The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has awarded 20.358 MW, or more than 26% of first-round capacity, to solar contractor Solar Landscape as part of the New Jersey Community Solar Energy Pilot Program.
New Jersey community solar
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| EGEB: Utility burning Massachusetts for $3.6B and new gas pipe, 60% of economic growth since 2008 in energy, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
How Local Utilities Gamed the Natural-Gas Market – On 37 cold days, when demand was high, unused ... |
| EGEB: Trina Solar 24.1% efficiency coming out of lab, 25-year home battery warranties coming from Tesla?, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news
Trina Solar achieves 24.13% conversion efficiency for IBC solar cell – Cool to see the R&D happening not only in the ... |
| EGEB: This net zero house can be assembled like IKEA furniture | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
NODE’s carbon-negative house can be put together in two weeks.
The largest community solar project in New Jersey will sit on four industrial buildings.
The US’ largest green energy incubator op... |
| EGEB: Solar up 40% in 2017; CAT5 + Solar not all roses; Automated solar panel factories; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news (little late today, sorry). Featured Image Source
Renewables grow 13.5% in first half of 2017 while nuclear and coal use ... |
| EGEB: Utilities making money from green; rough solar cells; Hail 1, San Antonio Solar 0; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Solar scientists rough up silicon panels to boost light capture – “To avoid using these extra (expensive and complex ant... |
| EGEB: Iowa ‘green’ pricing; Electricity storage above 565MW in USA; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Iowa utility offers high ‘green’ pricing without adding renewables – Three Beyond Solar options are available: 100 perce... |
| EGEB: Green energy will wipe out planned gas plants before they’re paid off, Dutch solar garden fences, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Green energy will push out natural gas by 2035.
Solar garden fences are popping up in the Netherlands.
Amazon employees will strike to protest climate change.
California passes a law that preve... |
| EGEB: Solar power algorithm; Dragonfly hackers lay in wait; wind power in rural USA; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Your solar panels could power the neighborhood during a blackout – The team has created a number of algorithms that allo... |
| EGEB: Rainbow solar panels; 100GW of solar in 2018; Sierra Club sues Department of Energy; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Solar Panels Could Soon Come in Every Color of the Rainbow – Instead of using dyes or coatings like commercially availab... |
| To be Solar, or not to be? Part 1: Does solar power make sense for my roof? | North Palm Beach, FL – 9.3kW PCM Solar, Renogy & SolarEdge built by Coronado Solar
Does Solar Power make sense for my roof?
Residential Solar Power is big time business – 2,099 MW at about $3.60/W means $7.6B in sales in the United Stat... |
| Electrek morning green energy brief: Big vs little solar, biggest clean energy advances, US tax on Chinese solar panels & more | The “Utility of the Future” – big vs little solar – A constant question in the solar industry is whether local, rooftop solar is worth the investment economically, in the long run. In this study at MIT, scale at the largest utility size sol... |
