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Clearway Energy Group announced that it closed more than $700 million in construction financing and has begun construction on two major energy projects in Fresno and San Bernardino counties in California. Luna Valley is a 200-MW solar project in Fresno County. Daggett Storage is a 113.5-MW standalone battery energy storage project in San Bernardino County …

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Palm Desert-based solar installer Renova Energy sent a letter to all customers last week saying it will temporarily halt all operations in California and Arizona after SunPower, one of its partial investors, limited its own operations. Renova CEO Vincent Battaglia emphasized in the letter that the halt is temporary and would be remedied in the …

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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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Quanta Services announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cupertino Electric Inc. (CEI), an electrical contractor and solar EPC headquartered in San Jose, California. CEI now joins fellow solar contractors Blattner, Ryan Companies and RPCS under the Quanta banner. Archive photo of Cupertino Electric “We are excited to announce the acquisition of CEI, a …

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Scanifly has partnered with SunRaise Technology to accelerate SLAs for residential solar leasing. Under the partnership, SunRaise can automatically pull milestone project data, such as site survey images, shade reports, CAD files and install punch lists, into their review queue from Scanifly’s software in real time. This eliminates the back-and-forth between contractors and SunRaise to …

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Solar tracker manufacturer Soltec revealed a new foundation option for its SFOne single-axis solar tracker systems called 4×4. The mounting solution is designed to help single-axis solar trackers adapt to more terrains and locations while reducing land preparation work like grading. A computer rendering of Soltec’s SFOne single-axis solar tracker using the company’s latest foundation …

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