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  • Caterpillar dealer delivers microgrid power solution at Peruvian copper mine

    Caterpillar Inc. today announced that Cat dealer Ferreyros has been selected by Ferrenergy, Ferreycorp’s energy company in Peru, to provide a microgrid power system for the Agromin La Bonita underground copper mine in Acarí, Peru. Supplied by Ferreyros to support a power purchase agreement between Ferrenergy and the operators ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sunrun brings Brightbox battery system to Florida Power and Light territory

    Sunrun is expanding access to its Brightbox rechargeable solar battery system, which features Tesla Powerwall batteries, to serve more parts of Orlando and Tampa. Sunrun’s expansion into Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) service territory means that more people can benefit from Sunrun’s solar and home battery offerings. Sunrun began providingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunPower debuts lower APR for its residential solar financing

    SunPower Corp. announced new low-annual percentage rate (APR) loans for U.S. residential solar customers. The new rates are expected to result in substantially lower monthly payments for homeowners purchasing SunPower’s comprehensive solar energy solutions, lowering the barriers to entry so more households can use the clean energy of solar to generateRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Terabase raises $6M in its quest to break the one-cent-per-kWh solar barrier

    Solar digital solutions startup Terabase Energy is on a mission to drive solar power prices down below one cent per kilowatt-hour (kWh) by 2025, and today it closed a $6 million Series A financing, led by SJF Ventures, to aid in its quest.  Terabase provides proprietary software, automation and digital deployment solutionsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Big deal: Kinect Solar is bringing First Solar PV modules to the distributed generation market

    Kinect Solar has entered into an agreement with First Solar to serve the distributed generation (DG) market with high-performance photovoltaic (PV) modules designed and engineered in America. A leader in the utility-scale market, First Solar is America’s largest PV module producer, shipping over 25 gigawatts (GW) of American solar technologyRead More — Solar Builder magazine