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Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • NREL publishes new PV module quality standard

    Working with partners around the world, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have completed five years of work toward helping establish an international quality standard for manufacturing photovoltaic (PV) modules. PV manufacturers will use the new standard to increase the level of confidence investors,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sungevity partners with CleanSpark for cyber-secure energy monitoring for commercial solar customers

    Sungevity and CleanSpark, a microgrid technology company, have partnered to include CleanSpark’s cyber-secure energy monitoring and management software with Sungevity’s commercial solar offering. The partnership will make CleanSpark’s technology available to Sungevity’s commercial customers with access to real-time system monitoring. Sungevity is a technology-driven solar energy company focused on making itRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Maine solar installers petition legislature to preserve net metering policy

    Maine solar installers, local and national businesses, environmental organizations, and the newly-formed Solar Energy Association of Maine delivered a petition with nearly 4,000 signatures to the Legislature today, urging Maine regulators and lawmakers to preserve current net metering policy as a side-by-side option for consumers who want to go solar.Read More

  • SunEdison now helping to save water in California too

    SunEdison signed a solar power purchase agreement with Stockton East Water District in Northern California and will install 2.2 MW of high-performance SunEdison solar panels on the water district’s property. By going solar, the district expects to save more than $9.5 million on energy costs over the next 20 years and 20 millionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Massachusetts hits both net metering, REC caps, halting a ton of solar business

    Another state rocking and rolling in solar installations is turning off the lights and unplugging the speakers,at least for now. We turn to Massachusetts, still one of the top solar states, which hit its net metering cap last year, and has just now hit its renewable energy certificates cap thisRead More