Month: August 2022

FranklinWH has been named to the approved vendor list (AVL) for both Mosaic and Goodleap, two U.S. solar loan companies. “FranklinWH strives to ensure that energy storage ownership is an affordable reality,” says Gary Lam, FranklinWH U.S. general manager and co-founder. “Excellent financing lets our installer partners boost sales and simplify operations while offering the …

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Generac Power Systems announced today an update to its PWRcell products that allows for AC-coupled energy storage, as well as AC generator integration. The new firmware will allow PWRcell batteries to accept up to 7.6 kW of AC power by third-party solar inverters. The same firmware update also unlocks the opportunity for a new or …

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Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Department of Assets, Information and Services (AIS) visited the Chicago Urban League to announce an agreement with Constellation, in collaboration with Swift Current Energy, to help meet the mayor’s commitment to purchase renewable energy for all city facilities and operations by 2025, making Chicago one of the largest …

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The Senate-passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes manufacturing tax credits for a number of solar components, not just solar panels. While still awaiting a vote from the House of Representatives and final signing by President Joe Biden, industry advocacy group SEIA has already suggested that the tax credits in IRA could spur upwards of …

Solar panels, trackers, inverters and batteries would all get manufacturing credits in Inflation Reduction Act Read More »

Nexamp has been selected to participate in the recently launched National Grid DG customer “Self-Performance Pilot” program in Massachusetts. The program was created in response to requests from developers looking to perform certain system modifications to potentially reduce the overall interconnection timeline and/or cost of their distributed generation (DG) projects. National Grid is allowing developers …

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Leeward Renewable Energy announced that it has commenced onsite construction on the 196-MW Big Plain Solar project located near London, Ohio. The renewable energy generated by the project will be supplied to Verizon Communications under a long-term power purchase agreement. SOLV Energy serves as the EPC contractor on the project, which will use First Solar …

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