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  • APS Arizona Sun Program adds nine solar plants over five years

    More than one million solar panels are now live in the Arizona desert producing clean power for APS customers (Arizona’s largest and longest-serving electricity utility). These photovoltaic panels are part of the APS AZ Sun Program, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. The program has experienced many successes alongRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New York utilities, SolarCity propose landmark partnership

    New York just keeps bringing the solar news, with most of it centered on collaboration. Six New York investor-owned utilities have joined SolarCity Corp. and other solar companies in the creation of the Solar Progress Partnership. The group yesterday filed a joint proposal with the New York Public Service CommissionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Blymyer Engineers discusses 1,500-volt PV system design

    Blymyer Engineers finished the designs on a 1,500 volt PV system across three sites in Florida. When completed the Gulf Coast project will generate 123.75 MW of AC power. The project is utilizing 1,497,000 First Solar thin film modules on AET fixed tilt racks, and since the site is adjacent to theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Energy groups call for Ohio to unfreeze renewable energy requirements

    Ohio has a legacy of ignoring the solar energy boom in favor of trying to drive minuscule victories in fossil fuel extraction in state. Leading advanced energy companies are trying to change this, urging the Ohio General Assembly to reject proposals that would extend the current freeze of the state’s RenewableRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SEPA: Top 10 solar utilities of 2015 ranked

    Southern California Edison connected 1,258 new MW of solar power to the grid in 2015, more than any other utility in the United States, according to the annual utility solar market survey conducted by the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA), formerly the Solar Electric Power Association. Edison was one ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine