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Category: Green & Clean

  • Geostellar works with Etsy to form Etsy Solar

    Online solar marketplace Geostellar officially announced a partnership with Etsy, Inc., a marketplace where people around the world connect to make, sell and buy unique goods, to launch a new pilot program called Etsy Solar. The program will help members of the Etsy community install solar panels on their homesRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Nanowire breakthrough could boost module efficiencies by 50 percent

    In what could be a major breakthrough for solar energy, Swedish advanced materials start-up Sol Voltaics AB has confirmed the successful alignment and orientation of nanowires in a thin film. The achievement paves the way for photovoltaic (PV) module efficiencies of 27 percent or more — a 50 percent boost in energy conversionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunEdison files for bankruptcy, solar industry comments

    SunEdison, Inc. announced that it has “commenced a process to restructure its balance sheet and position the company for the future.” Translation is the company has filed for chapter 11 — a move that had been rumored for awhile now. You may recall its Vivint deal falling through in March, butRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SolarWorld supplying panels for Valley Electric Association project

    SolarWorld is supplying 17.5 MW of its high-efficiency 72-cell solar panels for a project that the Valley Electric Association (VEA) is undertaking in the Mojave Desert town of Pahrump, west of Las Vegas near the Nevada border with California. The project will comprise 51,562 340-watt modules made in SolarWorld’s expanding factoryRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • RENVU Solar Distribution now has flexible short-term financing via Wunder Capital

    RENVU Solar Equipment Distribution, a California based equipment distributor, has teamed up with Wunder Capital to offer its customers flexible short-term equipment financing. Based in Boulder, Colo., Wunder Capital is a financial technology company that provides financing to solar projects throughout the country. Wunder allows accredited individuals, trusts, family offices, foundations, hedgeRead More — Solar Builder magazine