July 6, 2023 | San Diego's Top Solar Company

GreenSpark, CVE North America break ground on community solar projects in New York

GreenSpark Solar and CVE North America have begun construction on a portfolio of five community solar projects totaling over 26 MW in New York. CVE North America, headquartered in New York City and a subsidiary of the France-based CVE Group, is focused on developing, building and operating community solar plants across the United States. GreenSpark …

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Biden hails clean energy investments at new Enphase manufacturing site

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President Biden delivered a speech celebrating the $500 billion in recent private investment in U.S. manufacturing. Solar inverter manufacturer Enphase announced its first shipments from a U.S. contract manufacturing facility, owned and operated by Flex. July 6, 2023 President Joe Biden arrived in West Columbia, South Carolina to a newly announced inverter manufacturing facility that …

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GreenSpark Solar building 26-MW New York community solar portfolio

Industry / By Staff

GreenSpark Solar and CVE North America have broken ground on a portfolio of five community solar projects totaling more than 26 MW in New York State. CVE, headquartered in New York City and a subsidiary of the France-based CVE Group, is focused on developing, building and operating community solar plants across the U.S. GreenSpark has …

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Active grid-scale energy storage projects across the U.S.

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Energy storage supports a grid increasingly defined by renewable energy. pv magazine USA recaps three recent project updates in grid-scale storage. July 6, 2023 Energy storage is paired with renewable energy to balance the grid, match intermittent supply and demand, and provide reserve power for when it is needed most, among other functions. Over 82% …

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California court dismisses main Tigo patent claim against SunSpec Alliance

Industry / By Staff

On June 28, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the most consequential of Tigo Energy’s patent infringement claims against the SunSpec Alliance, a non-profit trade alliance that makes and sells no products, and its Rapid Shutdown standard. The Court rejected Tigo’s alleged theories of liability for patent infringement based …

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DOE announces $45 million for pilot manufacturing of solar components

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Funding from the Biden Administration’s Investing in America agenda is intended to support silicon component manufacturing and develop dual-use PV technologies. July 6, 2023 As part the Biden Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $45 million in funding, including $18 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to support pilot …

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Duke Energy sells commercial DG business to ArcLight Capital

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Combined with the sale of its utility-scale renewables business, Duke Energy has divested $3.16 billion worth of utility and distributed generation solar assets this year as the utility shifts its business to focus on its core regulated holdings. July 6, 2023 Duke Energy announced an agreement to sell its commercial distributed generation business to an …

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Bluetti releases stationary ESS using LFP batteries

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Bluetti has launched its first stationary energy storage system for residential setups to the U.S. market. The EP900 & B500 system was first launched in Europe in 2022. EP900 is a modular inverter model that accepts B500 expansion battery packs. With an expandable capacity of 9.9 kWh to 39 kWh and up to 9 kW …

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Grassland agrivoltaics show minimal difference in forage yield to traditional growth

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A Colorado State University study found that despite a 38% reduction in light availability, a C3 semi-arid grassland only reduced aboveground productivity and photosynthesis by 6%, pointing to the feasibility of grassland agrivoltaics. July 6, 2023 Agrivoltaic systems, where solar photovoltaic arrays are co-located with crop or forage production, can alleviate the tension between expanding solar …

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The rapid expansion of small-scale, distributed-generation solar

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From pv magazine 06/23 Two of the biggest solar markets, the United States and China, expanded their distributed-generation capacity by more than 65% in 2021 and 2022, against a 4% fall and an 18% rebound in utility scale PV. That means a qualitative shift in financing, in particular to back the integration of mass, networked, distributed-energy …

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