Industry

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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Technology company Morgan Solar has released a white paper in collaboration with Clearway Energy Group on I-V curve data. The white paper, titled “Root-Causing Suboptimal Field Performance with Inline I-V Curve Tracing,” explores how Clearway uses Morgan Solar’s IV DAQ to diagnose DC-side losses and define repowering strategies that improve plant yield. A Clearway project …

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Avangrid, member of the Iberdrola Group, has partnered with a fifth-generation Oregon rancher to graze sheep at two solar farms in Oregon and Washington, and launched likely the largest “solar grazing” operation in the region. Solar grazing is a vegetation management method used at solar energy facilities that uses grazing livestock, like sheep, instead of …

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Pivot Energy and the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), have reached a 5-MWDC virtual net-metering agreement. Under the 20-year subscription agreement, Pivot will develop an off-site net metering solar project in Weld County, which it will own and operate. CU Boulder is taking advantage of virtual net metering, an innovative new program made possible …

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The Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department is accepting applications for the state’s Supplemental New Solar Market Development Tax Credit program. This program is for New Mexico taxpayers who were denied a solar tax credit in years 2020 through 2023 because the program’s funding was exhausted before they applied. “On behalf of the New Mexico …

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Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced Energy Communities AmeriCorps, a new project that will engage 150 full-time AmeriCorps VISTA members in advancing locally designed economic development, workforce readiness and environmental remediation plans in energy communities as they gain skills and experience for good paying clean energy and climate resilience jobs. Building on the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment …

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On July 22, U.S. Senators Manchin (I-WV) and Barrasso (R-WY) released the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 to enhance energy security and improve permitting for energy infrastructure projects. In April, more than 200 solar and storage companies called for comprehensive permitting reforms that open federal lands to clean energy, modernize the grid, and build …

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