Month: October 2022

Greenskies Clean Focus, a commercial renewable energy development company, and Vanguard Energy Partners, a national solar construction firm, completed 2.4 MW of rooftop solar for FreezPak Logistics, a third-party food logistics company. The recently energized solar energy systems will provide renewable solar electricity to Freezpak cold storage facilities in Carteret (985 kW) and Elizabeth (1,414 …

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Oregon State University has started construction on a $1.5 million research project to optimize dual-use, co-developed land hosting solar photovoltaic arrays and agriculture. Credit: Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences The five-acre Solar Harvest project is located at Oregon State’s North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora, Oregon, 20 miles south of Portland. …

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Fearing voter backlash, California regulators will hold off issuing their proposed decision on a utility proposal to stifle the state’s rooftop solar program until after the November election, according to a Oct. 3 email bulletin from the San Diego-based nonprofit Solar Rights Alliance, citing credible sources. “Californians deserve to know now what regulators are proposing …

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The Arkansas Public Service Commission has approved the Entergy Arkansas Driver Solar Project, a new 250-MWAC/312 MWDC renewable energy facility developed by Lightsource bp, which will be located on approximately 2,100 acres near Osceola, Arkansas in Mississippi County. Driver Solar will be the utility’s largest solar facility, capable of generating enough energy to power more …

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SolarEdge Technologies and grid operator Rocky Mountain Power announced the qualification of the SolarEdge Home Battery to join Rocky Mountain Power’s award-winning Wattsmart Battery program. This marks an important next step in Rocky Mountain Power’s efforts to leverage customer-generated solar power along with battery technology in the homes of over 60,000 existing rooftop solar customers …

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Portuguese chemical company ChemiTek has entered the North American market with its solar panel cleaning products through a distribution partnership with Sunbrush USA. Sunbrush is now the exclusive importer of ChemiTek products to the United States. ChemiTek introduced a new range of products for the solar industry at Intersolar Munich. The products are specifically developed …

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