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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released another Solar Prize financing round, making US$ 5 million readily available as well as including funds for software program concepts for the very first time.

A fire that broke out Wednesday on the roofing of the Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) storage facility near Perryville, Maryland, was brought on by "an undefined event including the photovoltaic panel system" situated in addition to the structure, Maryland State Fire Marshal said following an investigation.

A subsidiary of Orbital Energy Group Inc (NASDAQ: OEG) has secured a contract to build a 137-MW solar farm in Arkansas, the United States building design company claimed on Wednesday.

Agilitas, a designer of distributed solar PV jobs in the northeast US, has actually gotten a power storage company in New England and its three operational tasks.

Puzzling out and also checking new ways to enhance the performance of cadmium telluride (CdTe) polycrystalline thin-film photovoltaic products is a common day in the life of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) research study researchers Matthew Reese and also Craig Perkins.

Lasting Futures' report supporters 'proactively winding down' coal mines and oil as well as gas wells from today

Today, solar power gives 2% of UNITED STATE power. However, by 2050, renewables are anticipated to be one of the most previously owned energy source (surpassing petroleum and also other fluids, natural gas, and coal) as well as solar will certainly surpass wind as the leading source of sustainable power.

United States solar programmer 7X Energy Inc claimed today it has actually sold its 130-MW Elara solar project in Texas to KOMIPO America Inc, a subsidiary of Korea Midland Power Co Ltd

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company LLC (GREC) claimed on Tuesday it has bought a 20-MW portfolio of pre-operational solar parks in Utah that are contracted under a lasting power purchase contract (PPA).

Solar and storage supplier BayWa r.e. is partnering with GoodLeap (previously known as Loanpal) to provide split-pay funding to household solar and also power storage installers.

BrightRidge, Silicon Ranch and also the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) broke ground Tuesday morning on a brand-new solar farm in western Washington County, Tennessee. The 9-MWac center will certainly be called the Martin Solar Farm in honor of the late Ralph Martin, that served for years as supervisor of the neighborhood power firm.

Nautilus Solar Energy as well as TurningPoint Energy revealed the King community solar project located in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, has actually gotten to mechanical completion as well as will certainly be completely functional in July.

Hecate Energy introduced that it has actually submitted an application with the New york city State Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) to construct a 500-MW solar farm in the Western New York towns of Elba as well as Oakfield, representing the first brand-new application to be submitted under the state's brand-new allowing process for large-scale renewable projects.

First Solar has unveiled strategies to more than increase its United States manufacturing capacity with a 3.3 GWdc facility in Ohio that will certainly create slim film PV modules for the nation's utility-scale solar field.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the largest public power utility in the United States, is waiting for quotes in a request for propositions (RfP) for utility-scale solar and battery storage space capability.