D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments Closes on Utah Solar Facility
D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a North American renewable energy producer, has closed on the Sigurd Solar project, securing both construction debt and tax equity financing. Sigurd Solar is...
View ArticleUMD Researchers Receive Grant to Examine Solar, Agriculture
Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have been awarded nearly $500,000 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to lead a new...
View ArticleDER Market Positioned for Decade of High Growth
The rate of annual investment in distributed energy resources (DER) will increase by 75% by 2030, with the market set for a decade of high growth. Favorable regulations, declining project and...
View ArticleCIP Reaches First Close on CI IV Renewable Investment
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a Danish fund management company that specializes in investing in the energy infrastructure sector, has reached a €1.5 billion first close on Copenhagen...
View ArticleSolar Steel Agrees to Supply Japanese PV Projects
Solar Steel, a division of Gonvarri Industries, has agreed to supply three new Japanese projects with its RackSmarT fixed-solar structure, extending the company’s capacity in Japan by 95 MW. The...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Continues to Devastate Clean Energy Jobs
More than 620,000 U.S. clean clean energy workers have lost their jobs since March after 27,000 new workers filed unemployment claims in May, according to the latest analysis of unemployment data by...
View ArticlePanasonic Expands PV Module Warranties
Panasonic has expanded its 25-year warranty on solar panels to include labor on all components of the residential solar system, including the monitoring and interconnection hardware and racking...
View ArticleSunLogix Selects Warehouse Partner
SunLogix, a company that provides logistics services to the solar power industry, has selected sPower, a renewable energy independent power producer (IPP), as its warehouse partner for the...
View ArticleSPI, ESI and North America Smart Energy Week Moves Outdoors
SPI, ESI and North America Smart Energy Week is the largest business-to-business platform for the renewable energy industry. To facilitate an experience that is safe for all stakeholders, the event...
View ArticleMorgan Solar Secures Utility-Scale Order from Enbridge
Morgan Solar Inc. has sold 13.6 MW DC (10.5 MW AC) of bifacial solar panels with the company’s SimbaX technology to Enbridge Inc., an energy infrastructure company. The solar panels will be...
View ArticleRPCS, IMPA Partner to Complete Solar Tracker Projects
RP Construction Services Inc. (RPCS), a company that designs, supplies and builds utility-scale ground-mount solar projects, and the Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA) have partnered to build a...
View ArticleSunrun Launching Solar-Based Virtual Power Plant
Sunrun Inc., a company that provides home solar, battery storage and energy services, and Southern California Edison (SCE), a California-based utility, are working together to launch one of the first...
View ArticleNew Initiative Seeks to Expand U.S. Transmission Network
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) have launched the Macro Grid Initiative to build support for expanding and upgrading the nation’s...
View ArticleRestoration Partnership Addresses Damaged PV Assets
Solar Support, an engineering services company, DEPCOM Power Inc. and Power Factor have partnered to expand the capabilities of their extreme weather restoration and recovery program. Combined, the...
View ArticleFirst Solar Signs PPA With Dow
First Solar Inc., a provider of photovoltaic (PV) solar solutions, has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Dow Inc. for its Gulf Coast operations. Dow’s Texas operations is the...
View ArticleNexans Solar Signs Solar Tracker Contract with Reden
Nexans Solar Technologies (NST) has signed its first contract to design, manufacture and supply its KEYLIOS Solar Trackers for Reden, a company that specializes in the development of photovoltaic...
View ArticleLaserax Releases the LXQ Fiber Laser Marker Series
After two years of development, Laserax, a company that provides manufacturing industries with laser technology, has released the LXQ Fiber Laser Marker series. The laser’s features are not only...
View ArticleXcel Energy Proposes Minnesota Energy Investments
Xcel Energy, a company that delivers clean energy solutions from a variety of renewable sources, has proposed one of the largest packages of energy investments in Minnesota’s history as part of its...
View ArticleKeysight Launches the PV8900 Series PV Simulator
Keysight Technologies Inc., a technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments connect, has launched a new family of photovoltaic (PV) array simulators that are the first...
View ArticleDroneBase Expands into the Renewables Market
DroneBase, an aerial data analytics company, has raised $7.5 million in Series C funding, has expanded its services to the renewable energy market with its new platform DroneBase Insights for Wind and...
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