North America

EDF Renewables acquires C&I solar installer EnterSolar
EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) revealed its 100% procurement of EnterSolar, a nationwide carrier of dispersed generation solar solutions to business commercial and also commercial (C&I) consumers.
Jan 28, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, EDF Renewables, EnterSolar, Raphael Declercq, Peyton Boswell
Longroad Energy, Swinerton total 160-MWac Little Bear solar project in California
MCE and also Longroad Energy are excited to reveal the conclusion of the 160-MWAC/215-MWDC Little Bear solar complicated in Fresno County, California.
Jan 28, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, California, USA, North America, longroad energy, Michael Alvarez, Solar Project, Dawn Weisz, Swinerton
Lightsource BP finishes funding for 316MW of solar in Texas
Lightsource BP has actually shut a US$ 380 million funding bundle for 2 Texan solar projects with an integrated capability of 316MW.
Jan 27, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Texas, Lightsource BP, North America, société générale, ing capital
Pivot Energy finishes 12 area solar projects in Illinois amounting to 34 MW
National solar developer Pivot Energy finished 12 brand-new community solar gardens located throughout Illinois, totaling 34 MW of emission-free, tidy and also local electrical energy.
Jan 27, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, pivot energy, Garrett Peterson
SunPower bringing domestic solar solutions to 7 more United States markets
As need for solar boosts across the nation, SunPower, a solar innovation and also power companies, is preparing to broaden its SunPower Residential Installation (SPRI) program this year. SunPower prepares to introduce SPRI presence in 7 brand-new markets throughout 6 states by the end of Q2 2021.
Jan 27, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, North America, Tony Garzolini
Salient Energy gets $1.5 million in The golden state financing for zinc-ion battery growth
Salient Energy, a business developing zinc-ion batteries, has actually gotten a $1.5 million give from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to sustain the style and setting up of its zinc-ion domestic energy storage space systems.
Jan 26, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, North America, Salient Energy, Ryan Brown, Vice Chair Janea Scott
Enphase acquires solar style as well as proposal software business Sofdesk
Enphase Energy introduced the closing of its purchase of solar style software company Sofdesk, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Sofdesk's Solargraf integrated software system uses electronic tools and solutions created to streamline and also accelerate the end-to-end sales process across the property solar market.
Jan 26, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Software, Canada, Enphase Energy, North America, Sofdesk, Lennie Moreno, Badri Kothandaraman, Jayant Somani
LONGi Solar secures major bifacial module order from Strata Solar
'Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) participant LONGi Solar has actually secured a 500MW monocrystalline bifacial module order from US-based project designer as well as EPC, Strata Solar.
Jan 26, 2021 // Manufacturing News, USA, China, pv power plants, pv modules, bifacial, Asia, solar cell, longi solar, North America, Strata Solar, p-type mono perc
Utility-scale solar surges to yet one more record year
Solar energy plants scratched up another record year according to initial numbers released today by utility-scale specialists Wiki-Solar. New setups in 2020 comfortably topped 50 GWAC, well ahead of the 43 GW record attained the previous year. Global advancing set up capacity is now close to 280 GWAC.
Jan 26, 2021 // Market Research, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, South america, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, Australasia
Solar Prize Marks Milestone with Round 3 Winner and also Round 4 Semifinalist Announcements
The Sun Has Set on Another Round of the American-Made Solar Prize, Awarding Two New Solar Startups for Their Innovations
Jan 26, 2021 // Market Research, USA, North America, Becca Jones-Albertus, Daniel R. Simmons, Maxout Renewables, Wattch Inc, Alex Nussey, Round 3 winners, David McFeeters-Krone
Boralex scoops New York solar project
Sky High PV farm in the community of Tully is due online in Q3 2022
Jan 26, 2021 // Plants, USA, New York, North America, Boralex
First Solar sells 10GW solar project business to Canadian pension plan fund
' Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) member First Solar has actually sold a huge part of its PV project business to Leeward Renewable Energy amounting to around 10GW.
Jan 26, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, Canada, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, First Solar, North America, cdte thin-film modules, leeward renewable energy, Jason Allen
After Four Years of Photovoltaic Research Study, NREL Is Just Getting Going
When the Solar Energy Research Institute was first visualized, the United States was only months out of the oil stoppage situation of 1973-- 74. The brand-new research study institute was a reaction to this crisis as well as part of a national initiative to find new, more reliable sources of energy.
Jan 25, 2021 // Market Research, USA, NREL, North America
Chinese clothing supplies Texas storage space
Sungrow will supply a fully-integrated system for the 100MW Chisholm Grid project
Jan 22, 2021 // Storage, USA, China, Asia, North America, Aaron Zubaty, Mizhi Zhang
Squeezing a rock-star product might make it stable sufficient for solar cells
Among the materials called perovskites, among the most amazing is a material that can convert sunshine to power as successfully as today's business silicon solar cells as well as has the possibility for being more affordable and also less complicated to make.
Jan 22, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, Stanford University, efficiency, perovskites, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Yu Lin, Wendy Mao