Day: August 16, 2022

New York-based solar developer Safari Energy sued Chint Power Systems in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in March of 2022 after alleged defects in Chint’s inverters resulted in three dozen fires at utility-scale solar projects in Georgia in less than a two-year period. The Georgia projects were built by SolAmerica …

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Renewable IPP has announced an 8.5-MW solar project that will supply renewable energy to Alaska utility Matanuska Electric Association (MEA). It will be the largest solar asset in the state. Construction on the Houston, Alaska, site commences in August 2022 with an anticipated completion date of summer 2023. The project will create 30 to 40 …

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Pivot Energy has announced the acquisition of SGC Power, a Maryland-based community solar developer. Pivot develops, finances, builds, owns and manages distributed energy projects and is owned by ECP. SGC Power has been involved in 2.8 GW of solar projects since the company’s founding in 2008. “SGC Power is a community solar leader with deep …

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Generac Grid Services announced it has been awarded a multi-year contract from Arizona Public Service (APS) to deliver additional grid capacity from residential battery storage systems. The agreement leverages Generac Grid Services’ Concerto distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) to provide both the requested capacity, as well as advanced grid services (AGS), including voltage management, …

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Tigo Energy announced the launch of two 25-A Tigo TS4 MLPE products supporting the latest high-power and high-current bifacial solar modules. The Tigo TS4-A-F 25A and Tigo TS4-A-2F 25A rapid shutdown devices provide advanced first-responder safety functionality for solar modules rated up to 700 W, including bifacial modules. Both products feature compatibility with Pure Signal …

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