Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • GP JOULE completes Minnesota community solar projects with its single-axis tracker

    GP JOULE Canada Corp., a subsidiary of GP JOULE GmbH, has successfully completed six utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects through its U.S. operations, totaling 12 megawatts (MW) in Minnesota. In two of these projects, the company combined its EPC expertise in the north with its proprietary single-axis tracker technology toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar FlexRack adds self powered option to its TDP solar trackers

    Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in solar tracker, mounting and project support services, is now offering a new, integrated Self Powered Solution for its TDP Solar Trackers. The safe and efficient technology simplifies the installation process by greatly reducing AC wiring and associatedRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Total corporate funding in solar sector plummets in Q1 2018 due to U.S trade war

    Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the global solar sector in the first quarter of 2018. Total corporate funding (including venture capital funding, public market, and debt financing) into the solar sectorRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sungrow, Greensmith Energy working on 1-MW solar + storage project in Massachusetts

    Sungrow, is working with Greensmith Energy, a part of the Wärtsilä technology group, to provide an advanced energy storage system to Origis Energy USA in Sterling, Massachusetts. The project couples a 1 MW rooftop solar installation with a 1MW/2MWh energy storage system to deliver an annual base load of 1.7Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • South Carolina moves closer to lifting net metering cap for rooftop solar

    A bill that will eliminate an artificial cap on net metering from rooftop solar installations, allowing for more people to have solar energy as an electricity option, is moving forward in South Carolina, passing a vote in the state House last week. South Carolina’s solar market grew significantly in 2017. TheRead More — Solar Builder magazine