Day: July 19, 2024

The July 17 letter. In a July 17 letter circulating social media but not yet confirmed by the company, SunPower chief revenue officer Tony Garzolini writes to dealers that the company will no longer support new lease or PPA sales, nor shipments of projects sold with those financing options. The solar installation company said it …

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The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed H.4876, a critical piece of legislation that addresses key challenges facing the solar and storage industry in the Commonwealth. The bill includes provisions to incentivize new solar and storage deployment, streamline siting and permitting processes at the state and local level and address project interconnection challenges. The bill now …

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Chinese energy storage system manufacturer Hithium will invest $100 million into a 483,874-ft2 facility in Mesquite, Texas, to assemble batteries. The site should support 10 GWh annual capacity and 141 manufacturing jobs. “The new facility will accelerate Hithium’s development and production of energy storage system products for the U.S. market while also boosting the Mesquite area’s economic …

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Sunrun announced that its CalReady power plant was activated to support California’s power grid during the recent heat wave. Batteries from over 16,000 Sunrun customers’ solar + storage systems dispatched power for four consecutive evenings from July 9 to 12 during peak hours. Sunrun customers’ batteries supplied the grid with an average of 48 MW …

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First Solar, a thin-film solar manufacturer, is starting a patent infringement investigation based on tunnel-oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) technology used in crystalline silicon solar manufacturing. First Solar secured TOPCon patents through its acquisition of TetraSun in 2013. Prior to its acquisition, the California-based startup had developed proprietary cell architecture and manufacturing processes for large-format crystalline …

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