Solar Design News
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Choose PV Suppliers Easily with our Editable Scorecard
Have you ever struggled to select the right PV modules, inverters, or any other PV supplier? This decision is crucial not only for choosing the most suitable products but also for managing your business risks. This is where the PV Supplier Scorecard emerges as a time saving tool for solar installers. Designed to offer a comprehensive simplified evaluation of various suppliers based on ...
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Harnessing the Sun: Hiden Analytical’s Leap Towards Sustainability
In an era where the clarion call for environmental stewardship and sustainability grows louder with each passing day, companies across the globe are stepping up to integrate green initiatives into their core business strategies. Hiden Analytical, a leading name in the field of advanced scientific instrumentation, has taken a significant leap forward in this direction. The company is thrilled to ...
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26.3 MW solar farm constructed by Ameresco in Illinois village
Ameresco Inc., a US renewable energy business (NYSE:AMRC), announced on Wednesday that it has finished a 26.3 MWdc solar project in the US state of Illinois hamlet of DePue, resulting in the creation of the largest solar farm in Bureau County. In its first year of operation, the 65,832 solar photovoltaic panels that make up the DePue facility are anticipated to generate 37 GWh of electricity. ...
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Ideal Energy Designs Groundbreaking 'Agrivoltaics' Solar Array
In a pioneering initiative, Iowa State University (ISU) is embarking on a research project to explore the combination of crops and solar power. The Alliant Solar Farm at Iowa State University is a groundbreaking agrivoltaics research project merging solar power generation and agriculture to study how best to optimize land use while providing local community benefits. A new 1.75-megawatt ...
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NASEO and NARUC Release Solar Cybersecurity Toolkit for States
The National Association of State Energy Officials and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office, released the Cybersecurity Advisory Team for State Solar (CATSS) Toolkit. The CATSS Toolkit provides State Energy Offices and public utility commissions with actionable information on cybersecurity ...
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Terabase Raises $25M to Accelerate its Digital and Automation Solutions
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, July 19, 2023 - Terabase Energy, the leader in digital and automation solutions for solar power plants, today announced $25 Million in new financing, led by Fifth Wall, the largest asset manager focused on improving, future-proofing, and decarbonizing the built world, with participation from EDP Ventures and existing investors. This financing round will be used to support ...
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RWE Connects its First Utility-Scale Battery Storage Project to the California Grid
RWE continues to expand its renewables portfolio in the U.S., connecting its first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to the California Independent System Operator. The project, Fifth Standard, also includes a 150-megawatt (MWac) solar PV facility, expected to be complete in August. The BESS facility, at 137-MW (ac) and located in Fresno County, Calif., is the company's largest to ...
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Energy Leaders Collaborate to Power All Electric, Solar-and Battery-Powered Microgrid Communities
SunPower Corp., University of California, Irvine (UCI), Schneider Electric, and Southern California Edison (SCE) announced their collaboration this week with KB Home, as the strategy, research, technology, and energy providers for the homebuilder’s newly launched Energy-Smart Connected Communities in Menifee, California. More than 200 state-of-the-art, all electric homes will be solar ...
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How software helps the sun
Designing and installing large-scale solar parks is not a trivial task. Many professional installers use special software to carry out the work as quickly and error-free as possible. Belgian players are also active in this market. Large solar panel parks – consisting of hundreds and often even thousands of panels – are meticulously designed for implementation. In this way, things ...
By Virto Solar
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Midsummer presents its first sustainability report
Since the company was founded in 2004, Midsummer has had sustainability in its focus, and the new report is the first of an annual series that describes, among other things, how the company works to counteract climate change, how the company's solar cells can become even more sustainable, and how Midsummer's solar cells stand up compared to other technologies with regard to climate impact seen ...
By Midsummer
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Groundbreaking California Rule Transforms How Renewables Connect to the Grid
By: Gwen Brown, IREC's Communications Director A new decision this week (June 23) from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) marks a significant milestone by dramatically simplifying the interconnection process for distributed energy resources (DERs), like solar and batteries, and providing valuable transparency for project developers. This is one of the most significant changes to ...
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Solar MEMS wins the ACNES Open Innovation award 2022 for Soltec
We love challenges at Solar MEMS, and this time we decided to tackle the proposal by Soltec, which we were able to win thanks to the work of our team. The challenge was to propose the development of a believable low cost irradiance sensor that could be integrated into a solar network. Our idea was to make one that could easily be coupled into a system of this nature, using our ISS technology, and ...
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Mitrex Launches "Solar Brick" to Transform Bbuildings into Energy-Generating Power Plants
Mitrex, a Canadian solar technology manufacturer, is launching Solar Brick—a solar-integrated facade solution designed for use as brick wall cladding that transforms a building into a renewable power plant. Mitrex Solar Brick facades boast up to 330W per panel while recreating a traditional masonry brick look, a staple of buildings in North America. Mitrex's newest project features an ...
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The 50 States of Grid Modernization: All 50 States Addressed Grid Modernization During 2021
The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) released its 2021 annual review and Q4 2021 update edition of The 50 States of Grid Modernization. The quarterly series provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on grid modernization, utility business model and rate reforms, energy storage, microgrids, and demand response. The report finds that all 50 states and ...
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PearlX and SolarEdge Bring New Community Solar & Storage Virtual Power Plants to Texas Renters
Flexible energy provider, PearlX Infrastructure LLC, and global leader in smart energy technology, SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., are collaborating on a series of first-in-kind residential clean energy projects for renters throughout Texas. Dubbed "Project TexFlex", the program deploys innovative community solar & storage virtual power plants (VPPs), enabling communities in the region to ...
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Interior Department Advances Three Key Solar Projects in California
The Department of the Interior announced this week it has approved two solar projects with a third nearing final completion on public lands in Riverside County, Calif., underscoring the Department's commitment to promoting onshore renewable energy production. The three projects will generate roughly 1 gigawatt of power and are the first projects approved under the Desert Renewable Energy ...
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Community consultation event announced for proposed Lawns Farm solar installation
Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, will be outlining their proposal to fund, develop and build a 20MW solar installation on 69 acres of land at Lawns Farm, Ballam Road, Lytham St Annes, FY8 4NG, at an online Q&A session on Wednesday 30th June at 7:30pm. Lightsource bp is inviting residents from the surrounding area to join the ...
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Lightsource bp on track to develop 600MW solar hub in NSW, Australia
Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, and 50:50 JV with bp, has secured planning approval for upscaling plans for the Wellington North solar project, which was acquired from AGL last year. The 400MWdc site is adjacent to Lightsource bp’s near-complete 200MWdc Wellington solar farm. Once operational, the 600MWdc hub could become the ...
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SunHydrogen Completes Production of 100 Demonstration Units
SANTA BARBARA, CA – April 27, 2021 - SunHydrogen, Inc. (OTC:HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, today shared an update and published a new video from Santa Barbara, CA of its recently manufactured demonstration units. “We are pleased to announce that Suzhou GH New Energy completed the assembly of all the ...
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Our new website – more informative, fresh and intuitive
The vision of a green future, where our organic solar films turn every building into a net-zero energy building, continuously inspire our teams to develop our new generation of innovative solar films. With HeliaSol, our first organic solar film will be available to the market in Spring 2021. For our customers, this means that the vision is starting to become reality. To highlight this important ...
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