Over 1.8 GW of solar is installed at nearly 9,000 schools across the United States, said a report from Generation180. August 28, 2024 Schools in the United States from kindergarten through high school are adopting solar energy in significant numbers. A report from Generation180 found that one in nine students in K-12 have solar at …
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One of First Solar’s longtime component manufacturing partners will establish a new production facility in Lacassine, Louisiana to support First Solar’s upcoming 3.5-GW solar panel manufacturing site in the state. The back of First Solar’s Series 7 module. It uses dual steel back rails. Ice Industries, a heavy metals contract manufacturer first established in Ohio, …
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Encore Renewable Energy has partnered with EPC GreenSpark Solar on 3.6-MW agrivoltaic solar project sited in Constable, New York. Constable Solar is Encore’s first solar project in New York in a 90-MW pipeline of under development solar projects. “With New York’s ambitious clean energy goals and an evolving energy supply market that is finding renewables …
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Ingeteam announced it has supplied central inverters for two Acciona Energy projects located in Wharton and Fort Bend counties outside of Houston, Texas. The first project, with a capacity of 317 MWAC, consists of 48 transformer stations equipped with 185 Ingeteam central inverters. This is the first large-scale project to be installed and commissioned by …
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Fluence enSights announced it is launching a new BESS calculator to empower developers and asset owners to fully benefit from the massive energy storage sector by optimizing battery sizing for maximized financial returns based on energy market and grid support opportunities. By replacing costly and labor-intensive BESS system design, the calculator instantaneously generates financial projections …
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Jobs in the solar industry grew 5.3%, and the Department of Energy expects this to double the share of electricity generation from clean energy sources by 2030. August 28, 2024 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the 2024 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), which shows that the energy workforce overall added over 250,000 …
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Photovoltaic mounting system manufacturer AEROCOMPACT is launching a brand new long-side clamping system for flat roofs at RE+, the largest clean energy event in North America, next month. The CompactFlat S-Base from Aerocompact. S_Base has been developed to work on different types of flat roofs, even with uneven surfaces and soft insulations. The design is …
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From pv magazine India ReNew, a Nasdaq-listed renewables company in India, has signed a 437.6 MW green attribute sales contract with Microsoft. This is one of India’s largest corporate renewable agreements and part of five power purchase agreements (PPAs), totaling 2.2 GW, that ReNew signed in the three months to June 30, 2024, raising its total …
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Summit Ridge Energy, a commercial solar company, and Trajectory Energy Partners, an Illinois-based community solar developer, broke ground at the Rock Cut Solar project in Rockford, Illinois. The project, owned and operated by Summit Ridge, is a 6.2-MW Community-Driven Community Solar (CDCS) project developed by Trajectory and expected to be operational by Q3 2025. “We’re …
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The amount of solar capacity installed at K-12 schools has more than quadrupled nationwide in the last decade, according to a new report from clean energy nonprofit Generation180. A solarized school in New York City. Credit: James Ewing The report, “Brighter Future: A Study of Solar on K-12 Schools, 5th edition,” found that over 6.2 …
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