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Clean Footprint to Host Webinar Regarding Solar for Massachusetts Businesses
Representatives from Clean Footprint, Central Florida’s leading solar development and finance company will be hosting a webinar entitled, ‘Why Massachusetts Businesses are Rushing to Go Solar’. The webinar, set for Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 from 2:00 until 2:30 EST, will focus on: · Why now is the best time to go solar? · The current opportunity for ...
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Standard Solar Opens New Office in Chicago to Support Growing Midwest Solar Business
Standard Solar, Inc., a leading solar energy company specializing in the development and financing of solar electric systems nationwide, has expanded with a new office located in downtown Chicago. The new solar project financing office supports the increasing need for turnkey solar financing in the Midwest and the demand expected as a result of the Illinois Power Agency’s Adjustable Block ...
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Xendee Adds Inflation Reduction Act Incentives Tools to Microgrid Design Platform
Xendee, a provider of renewable project and microgrid design and decision support software, has launched a series of new features that integrate the latest tax incentives from the new Inflation Reduction Act directly into its platform. This is designed to allow engineers to integrate the benefits of these policies with their projects and see the effects on overall costs or determine the ...
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Clean Footprint Participates in 2013 Florida Energy Summit in Orlando
Representatives from Clean Footprint, Central Florida’s leading solar finance and development company, are attending the 2013 Florida Energy Summit in Orlando, Florida on October 14th and 15th. “Florida is the third largest consumer of energy in the nation,” said John Porter, Managing Partner and Founder for Clean Footprint. “To meet our states long-term needs, it ...
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Standard Solar Opens New Office in Chicago to Support Growing Midwest Solar Business
ROCKVILLE, Md.—April 4, 2019 — Standard Solar, Inc., a leading solar energy company specializing in the development and financing of solar electric systems nationwide, has expanded with a new office located in downtown Chicago. The new solar project financing office supports the increasing need for turnkey solar financing in the Midwest and the demand expected as a result of the ...
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Clean Footprint Attends Clean Energy Congress 2.0 in Tallahassee, Florida
Representatives from Clean Footprint, Central Florida’s leading solar finance and development company, attended Clean Energy Congress 2.0 held in the Historic Capital, Senate Chamber in Tallahassee, Florida on Monday. The purpose of the Congress was to eliminate obstacles for a robust competitive energy market and diversify the states generation mix. “The Congress develops a vision ...
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Locus Energy Releases SolarOS™ - a Major Update to Its Industry Leading Solar Monitoring Platform
Locus Energy has released a redesigned and revamped version of its solar monitoring platform, rebranded as SolarOS. The SolarOS upgrade bolsters the company's monitoring service for residential and commercial solar PV installations and improves overall software usability and performance. The new release includes a refreshed site interface as well as a number of feature enhancements. While the ...
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Clean Footprint Executive Meets with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
Recently, the Founder of Clean Footprint, John Porter, met with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy. The Administrator traveled to Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando to discuss energy initiatives prior to the Clean Energy Plan announced yesterday. During her visit she participated in a classroom experiment to test air pollution, met with students studying ...
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Locus Energy Launches the LGate 310 - the First Smart Meter Designed for Light Commercial Solar Monitoring
Locus Energy has launched the LGate 310 -- a digital smart meter optimized for monitoring light commercial solar photovoltaic installations. The combined power meter and datalogger makes it easier than ever to remotely monitor and maintain PV systems. Together with the web-based Locus Platform that provides an overview dashboard as well as patented analytics, the LGate 310 enables solar fleet ...
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Itron Enters into Solar Market with Extended Product Portfolio
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today it has expanded its capabilities with a dedicated meter for the solar market. The revenue-grade solar meter, which utilizes an Itron cellular communication module, is ideal for monitoring the energy production of residential and commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. The availability of third-party-owned residential solar ...
By Itron Inc
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Germany and France send environment ministers to World Future Energy Summit
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 24th December 2008: Two of Europe’s key environment ministers announced that they will speak at January’s World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. Sigmar Gabriel, German Minster of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety will represent German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. France’s No2 to President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean-Louis Borloo, French Minister of ...
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EIA Explores Effects of Inflation Reduction Act on the Annual Energy Outlook
Principal contributor: Stephanie Tsao In 2050, we project that total U.S. solar capacity, which includes both utility-scale solar and rooftop solar in the commercial and residential sectors, could range from 532 gigawatts (GW) to 1,399 GW. In our Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023), we present 16 scenarios, or cases, that project long-term energy trends in the United States through 2050. Our ...
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Most Utilities Executives Agree Risk of Consumers Going Largely Off-Grid Will Increase Significantly in Next Two Years, According to Research from Accenture
Ninety-five percent of utilities executives agree that the risk of electricity consumers going largely off the grid and only using it as occasional backup will increase significantly in the next two years, according to a study from Accenture, conducted as part of the company’s Digitally Enabled Grid research program. The deployment of distributed generation (DG) technologies like rooftop ...
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Standard Solar and Solar Grid Storage Collaborate to Complete Pioneering Commercial Solar Microgrid
Standard Solar, a leader in the full-service development, construction, integration, financing and installation of solar electric systems, in collaboration with Solar Grid Storage, today announced that construction is complete on the solar microgrid project at Maryland-developer Konterra’s headquarters. The project, announced earlier this year, is a grid-interactive energy storage system ...
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Eaton enhances safety, improves reliability of large-scale solar applications
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation expanded its solar disconnect solutions for commercial and utility PV solar applications. With its new Eaton bi-directional disconnect switches, Eaton is the first in the industry to offer a product that can switch one circuit per pole and remove polarity limitations. The new disconnect switches incorporate the latest switching technology to ...
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Suniva, Radiance Solar and Georgia Tech Research Institute Awarded “SunShot” Grant from U.S. Department of Energy
Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that it is a key member of a team that has been awarded a $2.8 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contract to develop a commercially-ready, next generation solar photovoltaic (PV) balance of system (BOS) design. The grant is part of ...
By Suniva, Inc.
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Rocky Mountain Institute Releases Solar Cost Reduction Roadmap
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) recently released a report, written with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative, that examines how to substantially reduce solar photovoltaic (PV) “soft” costs over the next eight years. The report, Non-Hardware “Soft” Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential ...
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NREL scientists report first solar cell producing more electrons in photocurrent than solar photons entering cell
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum. The external quantum efficiency for photocurrent, usually expressed as a ...
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Tripled Manufacturing Capacity Leads to 100 MW Supply Agreement
Schletter, a global manufacturer of solar mounting systems, was awarded a 100 MW (installed PV capacity) supply agreement with Strata Solar, a leading installer/service provider of utility, commercial, and residential PV systems. The partnership agreement is expected to be completed within 2013. In mid-2012 Schletter, announced plans to triple its manufacturing capacity with the addition of an ...
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Linzer Products Corporation Reduces Energy Costs with Mitsubishi Electric Photovoltaic System
Linzer Products Corporation, one of the world’s largest manufacturers, importers, and exporters of paint tools and accessories, is replacing all the company’s electricity needs with clean, solar power at its paint brush factory in San Fernando, California. The recent installation of a 614kW DC photovoltaic (PV) system includes 2,730 Mitsubishi Electric solar modules, installed by Sun ...
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