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Category: Green & Clean

  • How solar module manufacturers can avoid AD/CVD tariffs

    By Max Macpherson, PVEL, and Alex Barrows, Exawatt/CRU Group With the waiver of AD/CVD circumvention tariffs on SE Asian cells and modules that employ Chinese wafers set to expire in June this year, there are several key issues for the U.S. solar market. One of these is for the courts to decide on — Auxin’s recent……

  • IRA offers lucrative incentives for low-income community solar, but also creates new challenges

    Community solar is inherently a way to expand equity in solar access, as advocates describe it, since it makes clean energy and savings accessible to people who lack the capital or the space to install their own arrays.  The Inflation Reduction Act has the potential to drive a boom in community solar development, with bonus……

  • Solar companies raised $34.3 billion in corporate funding in 2023

    Mercom Capital Group reported that solar companies raised more capital in 2023 than in any other year in more than a decade. The clean energy communications and consulting firm released its annual report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the solar sector in 2023.  Total corporate funding, including venture capital (VC) funding,……

  • EagleView launches SolarReady to enhance property evaluation for solar installations

    EagleView is harnessing its geospatial data and analytics services to launch SolarReady. This cutting-edge data solution is designed to enable solar professionals to better identify and acquire viable residential properties for potential solar installations.  “Businesses that compete for new projects win when they have better data,” said Piers Dormeyer, CEO of EagleView. “SolarReady harnesses our……

  • Brooklyn SolarWorks CEO shares five ways solar is expanding in NYC

    2023 was a breakthrough year for New York City’s transition to renewable energy. NYC-based Brooklyn SolarWorks’ CEO T.R. Ludwig says these five key drivers that will transform the city’s use of renewable energy.  City of Yes | City of Yes carbon Neutrality (COYCN) zoning amendment removes barriers to larger solar developments. The changes present opportunities……