Day: July 25, 2024

A coalition of clean energy, consumer protection and environmental groups filed a motion on July 25 seeking a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of a new California rule that would severely restrict solar contractors from installing and servicing battery storage systems. The rule, approved by the California Contractors State License Board (CSLB) in April, prohibits …

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SolarCycle’s recycling facility in Texas with its secondhand solar power plant. Credit: SolarCycle Solar panel recycling outfit SolarCycle announced it has installed a 500-kW system at its recycling facility in Odessa, Texas, that will provide around 50% of the electricity used at the factory. The nearly 1,000 panels used on the project come from decommissioned …

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DCE Solar‘s Eco-Top Rooftop Mounting Structure is now compliant with the UL 3741 Standard. UL 3741 certification is a safety standard that ensures the implementation of proper photovoltaic hazard controls. Eco-Top Rooftop flat roof solar racking from DCE Solar achieves UL 3741 PV hazard standard. DCE’s Eco-Top mount uses an integrated wire management system to …

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Canadian solar panel manufacturer Heliene, which has a manufacturing campus in Minnesota, announced it would partner with Premier Energies of India to establish silicon solar cell manufacturing in the United States. Heliene currently sources cells from Premier’s facility in Hyderabad. Under the agreement, the new U.S. facility will have 1-GW annual manufacturing capacity of n-type …

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