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Renaissance Arts and Education (RAE), Tampa Bay Solar and Regenerative Shift will collaborate on a 2-MW rooftop solar project at ¡HOLA! Elementary, a bilingual elementary school in Palmetto, Florida, within RAE’s Manatee School for the Arts. The project is scheduled to be placed into service by summer 2025. The project intends to pursue the domestic …

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Energy Toolbase and Sol-Ark have partnered to provide an all-encompassing commercial energy storage system. This collaboration offers small C&I solar and storage projects with Sol-Ark’s energy storage solutions paired with the ETB Controller energy management system. The initiative integrates ETB Developer’s project economics modeling and proposal-building capabilities with ETB Controller’s energy storage control software and …

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ABB has acquired Lumin, a U.S.-based responsive energy management systems company, to expand ABB’s home energy management capabilities in the North American residential sector. The acquisition follows a strategic minority investment by ABB into the company in 2023. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “We’re excited to welcome Lumin into the ABB family …

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Maintaining a solar farm that spans acres can require an entire fleet of personnel deployed to remove weeds and clean the panels. Hylio has created a drone that can help automate solar panel maintenance. The Hylio AG-210 is a small and nimble drone produced by the Texas-based company. All of Hylio’s UAS, including the AG-210, …

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Artemis by Monalee Artemis by Monalee is introducing GoodLeap lease financing for fast-growing solar companies. Currently active across 12 states, consumers can easily select the lease option that best suits their needs and enjoy instant approval through soft credit checks, enabling savings of up to 30 to 50% on their monthly electric bills. To power …

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EQT announced that EQT Transition Infrastructure has agreed to acquire Scale Microgrids, a developer, acquirer, owner and operator of microgrids and distributed energy resources for commercial & industrial, EV fleet, data center, municipal, university, hospital and agricultural customers, developers and communities, from Warburg Pincus and other existing shareholders. Headquartered in Ridgewood New Jersey, Scale’s portfolio …

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Solis announced that its residential high-voltage hybrid inverters (3.8 to 11.4 kW) and commercial power class inverters (25 to 60 kW) are now officially listed on the Hawaiian Electric (HECO) Qualified Equipment List. Hawaiian Electric’s Qualified Equipment List identifies products that meet strict criteria for performing essential Grid Support Utility Interactive (GSUI) functions. These requirements …

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UGE announced that it has reached commercial operation (COD) on six new solar projects totaling 16 MW. The projects include UGE’s first two community solar projects in Maryland; its first community solar project in Oregon, a second municipal PPA project in Texas; and two community solar projects in Maine. With the completion of these six …

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Construction is now underway in Lincoln County, Nevada, where Bechtel has been selected by Estuary Power to design and construct a new 226-MWDC solar project. The Escape Solar project will consist of approximately 389,000 bifacial PV panels across 900 acres to produce clean energy to serve four major power customers in the region, including MGM …

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A new antidumping/countervailing duties (AD/CVD) investigation could affect domestic manufacturing and deployment of lithium-ion energy storage and EV batteries in the United States. In Dec. 2024, the American Active Anode Material Producers (AAAMP) filed petitions with the Dept. of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission seeking AD/CVD on imports of battery anode materials from China. …

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