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Day: August 29, 2023

Ameresco is designing a floating solar array for Utah water district

Ameresco has been awarded a design contract for a 589-kW floating solar array for a water district in Utah. Rendering of the project Mountain Regional Water Special Service District, which serves drinking water to the Snyderville Basin area of Park City, Utah, was selected for a $400,000 grant from Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky program …

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SnapNrack and S-5! pair solar mounts and brackets into single package

SnapNrack, a manufacturer of solar mounting solutions, and S-5!, a producer of solar attachment solutions for metal roofs, formed a joint partnership to offer select metal roof attachments from both manufacturers as a single kitted solution. The companies now offer installers a packaged product with S-5! metal roof brackets and SnapNrack All Purpose L Foot …

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Treasury proposes new rules to help solar contractors comply with prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements

Swift Current Double Black Diamond solar project in southeast Sangamon County, first day of panel installation Monday, March 20, 2023 near Virden, Illinois. Rich Saal/Swift Current Energy As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on August 29 released proposed rules …

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IREC issues model rules to speed up clean energy interconnection

The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) has updated its model rules to facilitate the safe, efficient and reliable interconnection of clean energy resources to the electric grid. Interconnection is one of the biggest obstacles to the expansion of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as rooftop solar installations, community solar and battery storage — and achieving …

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Greenskies installs ground-mount solar array for Connecticut high school

The Town of Killingly partnered with Greenskies Clean Focus to install an additional 1-MW solar array at Killingly High School in Connecticut. Over the last four years, Greenskies has installed over 2 MW of solar across eight solar arrays at five town facilities, ranging from the smallest, a 66-kW rooftop array at the Highway Department, …

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A first for the United States: Gigawatt-scale manufacturing of glassless solar panels

Lightweight solar panel manufacturer Sunman, which operates a 1-GW factory in China, is starting a new manufacturing division in the United States, called Bila Solar. Bila plans to start a 1-GW solar panel factory in Indianapolis, which should be operational mid-2024. A Sunman installation in China. Sunman formed in 2014 and has 500 MW of installations …

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Indiana

Bila Solar announces plans to manufacture lightweight solar modules in U.S.

The Singapore-based developer of glassless, frameless solar modules plans to invest nearly $35 million to renovate a facility in Indianapolis. August 29, 2023 The newly launched Bila Solar announced plans to open a solar module manufacturing facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the company says it will produce 1 GW of glassless, frameless solar modules per …

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Enphase starts solar microinverter shipments with third U.S. contract manufacturer

Enphase microinverters are made in a Salcomp contract manufacturing factory in India. Enphase Energy has announced initial shipments of Enphase IQ Microinverters produced in Arlington, Texas, by global contract manufacturer Salcomp, marking the use of a third contract manufacturer in the United States. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has enabled Enphase Energy to manufacture in …

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