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Month: June 2022

Solar tariff moratorium creates upside, but supply challenges still loom

Wood Mackenzie boosted its utility-scale solar deployment forecast following the executive branch two-year pause on antidumping tariffs, but the uncertainty caused a latent effect on the industry. Plus, other uncertainties persist. June 28, 2022 Since March, the solar industry has reeled from potential tariffs on goods manufactured in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, home to …

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Solar FlexRack trackers used in 15-MW Arizona community solar project

Tuscon Electric Power’s 15-MW Raptor Ridge solar array was commissioned this month at a 100-acre site in Tucson, Arizona. The community solar project uses Solar FlexRack’s single-axis trackers to support 35,500 bifacial modules, which increase energy production by up to 30%. Credit: Solar FlexRack The new array will supply power for the TEP GoSolar Home …

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Native-led non-profit adds solar array, heat pump via Everybody Solar

Nibezun, a Native-led nonprofit that seeks to revitalize and preserve Wabanaki culture in Passadumkeag, Maine, added a new solar array and heat pump system to deliver sustainable electricity and heat to its facilities. Partnering with Everybody Solar, nearly $60,000 was raised from foundations and individual donors, to install the solar array and heat pump system, …

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Huck Finn Solar Project will be Missouri’s largest to date at 200 MW

Developed by EDF Renewables, the Huck Finn project is expected to generate $14 million for local communities. June 28, 2022 Developed by EDF Renewables, the 200 MW Huck Finn Solar will be the largest solar installation in the state of Missouri. The project is expected to create more than 250 jobs at peak construction. The …

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Sunrise brief: It takes more than recycling to establish a circular economy for solar and batteries

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Can Dual-Use Solar Panels Provide Power and Share Space With Crops?

In its 150-year history, Paul Knowlton’s farm in Grafton, Mass., has produced vegetables, dairy products and, most recently, hay. The evolution of the farm’s use turned on changing markets and a variable climate. Recently, however, Mr. Knowlton added a new type of cash crop: solar power. For Mr. Knowlton, a fifth-generation farmer and the current …

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Nextracker revitalizes Pittsburgh steel plant for tracker manufacturing

Nextracker, a global manufacturer of utility-scale solar trackers, and BCI Steel, a Pittsburgh-based steel fabricator, are reopening the historic Bethlehem steel manufacturing factory in nearby Leetsdale to produce solar tracker equipment for large-scale solar power plants. The steel processing plant will incorporate BCI Steel’s new and reshored equipment shipped back to the U.S. from factories …

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Renu Energy Solutions installs solar array atop living-learning greenhouse prototype at JCSU

Renu Energy Solutions, a locally-owned and operated solar installer in North Carolina and South Carolina, completed a solar installation at the greenhouse of Johnson C. Smith University’s (JCSU) Sustainability Village, an innovative living-learning prototype for students in Charlotte, NC. Sales and Marketing Month sponsor Get Aurora AI & Get Back to Summer Let Aurora AI …

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Greenskies completes two solar carport arrays at Connecticut schools

Connecticut commercial solar developer Greenskies Clean Focus completed two 129-kilowatt (kW) solar carport arrays for the Town of Madison, Connecticut – 342 modules each at Walter C. Polson Middle School and Daniel Hand High School. Sales and Marketing Month sponsor Get Aurora AI & Get Back to Summer Let Aurora AI do the heavy lifting …

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Community solar leader New York State gets another 25.4 MW across five projects

A series of developers have announced a partnership that is set to bring roughly 25 MW on new community solar to New York. The five community solar projects developed by Amp Energy, Castillo Engineering and CS Energy range from 3.9 MW to 6.2 MW in size. Four of the projects are currently under construction, and …

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