residential rooftop solar News
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Entergy New Orleans Pilots Residential Rooftop Solar Program
Entergy New Orleans is piloting a new program that puts solar panels on the rooftops of low-income customers’ homes and gives them a $30 credit on their energy bills every month, rain or shine. The Residential Rooftop Solar Program is a simple and straightforward way for New Orleans customers in need to participate in the benefits of distributed renewable energy by allowing the company to ...
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New White Paper: Identifying and Meeting Consumer Needs
The Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) today announced release of a new white paper, "Identifying and Meeting Consumer Needs," that highlights successful programs and services for residential customers from electricity providers across the United States. The white paper is based on the five themes on consumers' needs and wants found in SECC's "2020 State of the Consumer" report, a ...
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SolaTrim LLC Inks Nationwide Canadian Distribution Agreement With Guillevin Greentech of Ontario
SolaTrim™ LLC (www.solatrim.com), innovators in protective barriers that safeguard and beautify residential rooftop solar systems, has announced that a distribution agreement has been reached with Guillevin Greentech, operating out of London, Ontario, who now joins SolaTrim’s expanded network of Canadian distributors. Guillevin Greentech, a subsidiary of Guillevin International Co., ...
By SolaTrim
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U.S. closes US$4.75 billion in solar loans before program deadline
The U.S. Energy Department completed US$4.75 billion in loan guarantees for four solar projects yesterday, the deadline for a 2005 program funded by the stimulus act. Projects being developed by ProLogis Inc., SunPower Corp. (SPWRA), and First Solar Inc. (FSLR) won U.S. backing, and First Solar and SunPower immediately sold theirs. The guarantees come at the end of a month in which the Energy ...
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Soligent to Partner with American-Based Module Manufacturer, Mission Solar Energy
Soligent Distribution has partnered with American-Based Module Manufacturer, Mission Solar Energy to expand its high quality product offerings. August 23, 2018, Solar & Wind, Energy Storage Grids Soligent Distribution, the largest pure play solar distributor in the United States, has partnered with Mission Solar Energy, a U.S. based manufacturer of American made modules, to expand its ...
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FEMA Study Finds Puerto Rico Can Achieve 100% Renewable Energy Future By 2050
The U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week (Feb 7) released a summary report for the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100). The two-year study concludes that Puerto Rico can successfully meet its projected electricity needs with 100% renewable energy by 2050.PR100 outlines pathways to achieving clean energy ...
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Connecting renewable generation to the grid faces technological and regulatory challenges
A wave of renewable energy generation construction has swept the nation, accounting for the majority of new capacity over the last two years, and that has led to a new challenge—getting it all on the grid in the most efficient way. “The competitiveness of wind and solar has made them a go-to option,” said Aaron Bloom, project manager for the National Renewable Energy ...
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£600m Solar Buyback Scheme
Lightsource Renewable Energy has revealed it is looking to invest up to £600m over the next five years in buying solar assets from households and businesses, as it looks to diversify its revenue streams. The company, which is one of the leading developers and operators of solar assets in Europe, said the scheme would offer owners of residential and commercial rooftop solar arrays a cash ...
By Qualtrax Inc
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SOU is also awaiting confirmation on an additional $2 million federal grant that will further fund its campuswide solar buildout initiative.
Rod Walton, EnergyTech senior editor, describes an ERCOT pilot project with implications for microgrids. FERC 2222 is coming to the Lone Star State. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the system operator which manages the state’s grid, has authorized a pilot project to evaluate the participation of aggregated distributed energy resources (DERs) in the ERCOT wholesale ...
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Talesun Solar Launches ACPV Modules at Intersolar North America
Talesun Solar USA, Ltd, the US subsidiary of Zhongli Talesun Solar, a globally positioned, premium producer of solar modules and systems, today launched its ACPV module products at Intersolar North America. Talesun ACPV modules will be available for the US market in August 2012. Talesun partners with SolarBridge Technologies, a leading developer of module-integrated micro-inverters for the solar ...
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Hawaiian Electric Highlights Renewable Energy Progress in 2022-23 Sustainability Report
By the end of 2022, 37% of single-family homes across the five islands Hawaiian Electric serves had rooftop solar, Oahu's first grid-scale solar and storage project was online, and the state's last remaining coal plant was retired. That's the kind of progress outlined in Hawaiian Electric's 2022-23 Corporate Sustainability Report, "Building a Strong and Resilient Hawaii Together," now online. ...
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Enecsys Unveils Next Generation Global Micro Inverter Platform
Enecsys Limited, a premier supplier of micro inverter products for the global solar market, today announced the launch of its second generation micro inverter platform, including a new communications gateway and online monitoring service. Building upon its success over the last year while expanding deployments of its first generation platform in key international markets across Europe, North ...
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Southern Company subsidiaries Alabama Power and Georgia Power Continue Building the Future of Energy with Innovative Smart Neighborhood Projects
Southern Company and its Alabama Power and Georgia Power subsidiaries have officially announced Smart Neighborhood™ initiatives that will provide customers with state-of-the-art home construction, distributed energy resources – including solar and battery energy storage – and smart home appliances and technologies.The first-of-a-kind Smart Neighborhoods – located in Atlanta and suburban ...
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Pure energies and SMA America sign 17 megawatt supply agreement for Ontario solar market
Pure energies, an Ontario-based turnkey solar electricity facilitator with a unique market channel for residential solar systems has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SMA America, LLC outlining the supply of 17 MW of solar inverters in 2010, with a target goal of 50 MW over the next three years. The supply partnership will allow Pure energies to provide Ontario consumers with ...
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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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MIT team wins Clean Energy Prize for solving solar’s shade problem
Original story at MIT News An MIT team whose integrated chip restores lost power to partially shaded solar panels — achieving double the energy capture improvement of similar technologies — won big on Monday night at the seventh annual MIT Clean Energy Prize (CEP) competition. Equipped with a promising business plan and a snappy catchphrase — “shade happens” ...
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