Month: July 2024

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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Arkansas-based distributed generation (DG) installer Scenic Hill Solar announced it has completed and begun commercial operation of a 1.2-MWDC project it says is the first DG project in the world to use First Solar’s Series 7 TR1 solar panels. The project is located in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and began operations earlier this year. “We are proud that …

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Renewable energy project developer Catalyze has selected GreenSpark Solar to construct and develop 10 projects in New York totaling 60 MW. The partnership will expand Catalyze’s New York community solar portfolio, which currently includes the Amherst solar project and additional sites acquired through a recent transaction with BW Solar. Additionally, it will support ongoing initiatives funded by $100 million …

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The community solar agreement between Nexamp and Starbucks enables the addition of more solar farms in Illinois, like this Nexamp project already operating in Kingston. Nexamp announced a new community solar partnership with Starbucks. By committing as a long-term renewable electricity purchaser, Starbucks will anchor the deployment of more than 40 MW of solar energy …

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