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  • Duke Energy unveils Kentucky’s largest utility-scale rooftop solar site at Amazon Air Hub

    Duke Energy customers in Northern Kentucky are benefiting from additional clean, renewable solar energy as a result of a new utility-scale rooftop solar project now generating power for area homes and businesses.   Kentucky’s largest rooftop solar array operates more than 5,600 photovoltaic panels on the 800,000-square-foot Amazon Air Hub rooftop adjacent to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. This Duke……

  • Check out this Solar Mapping & Prediction study for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

    With funding support from the Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc., Chesapeake Conservancy’s data science team developed a deep learning model that automatically maps ground-mounted solar arrays in satellite imagery. Using this AI system, annual maps were created of all solar arrays within Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and West Virginia from 2017……

  • Enzinc takes World Materials Forum prize for zinc-based battery solution

    Enzinc, a developer in the growing field of zinc battery tech, was awarded the Coup de Coeur prize in the World Materials Forum (WMF) Start Up Challenge for how it uses this common material in energy storage. The ninth WMF, held in Nancy, France, last week, brings together industry leaders, experts and innovators from around……

  • Fresno Housing, Sunrun to power 48 homes in disadvantaged community

    Fresno Housing, in partnership with Sunrun, celebrated a new solar installation at Blossom Trail Commons, an affordable housing community in Sanger, Calif. The project, which is located in a CalEnviroScreen disadvantaged community, provides solar energy to 48 homes and saves each family an average of $70 per month on their electricity bills through the use of virtual……

  • Five design tools to jumpstart your C&I solar business

    This column was submitted by Aurora Solar. For more C&I design insight, check out this How to qualify a project site in 20 mins using HelioScope webinar. With decades of foundational groundwork and a boost from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the growth of commercial and industrial (C&I) solar is set to accelerate upward……