Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • Principal Solar announces proposed IPO

    Principal Solar, Inc. has filed the paperwork and intends to go public. The company announced that it will offer its common stock in an underwritten public offering of 2.5 million shares as part of its initial public offering filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Principal Solar is a solar power company that buildsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Conergy to purchase Sungrow inverters as part of strategic partnership

    Conergy, one of the largest global solar companies, and Sungrow, one of the largest global PV-inverter manufacturers, announced a strategic partnership in which Conergy will purchase inverters from Sungrow for many of its global commercial and utility scale projects over the next year. The first project under this partnership is aRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar panels named home exterior style trend for 2015

    Royal Building Products, a manufacturer of home exterior products, releases its Exterior Style Trends guide every year to reflect the hottest design choices among homeowners, builders and architects in North America. Why does this interest us? In the just-released 2015 guide, Royal Building Products mentioned sustainability — specifically solar power —Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Locus Energy’s fleet surpasses 1 GW of solar capacity

    Locus Energy, a performance monitoring and data analytics platform provider for the solar PV market in the residential, commercial and utility sectors, announced that its fleet has surpassed 1 GW of solar capacity in the United States. This milestone reflects record growth in the solar monitoring sector, which has outpaced solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Amtech Systems receives large diffusion systems order from Chinese manufacturer

    Tempress Systems, the solar subsidiary of Amtech Systems, Inc., received a large, multisystem order for its next-generation solar diffusion systems from a leading solar cell and module manufacturer in China. The systems are expected to ship within the next three to nine months. Amtech is a global supplier of production equipmentRead More — Solar Builder magazine