North America

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
Head of state Biden picks Richard Glick as new FERC chairman
United States President Joe Biden has actually appointed Richard Glick, a commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), as the body's brand-new chairman.
Jan 22, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, FERC, Donald Trump, North America, Joe Biden, policy, renewables
Solar market welcomes President Biden
The United States solar sector expressed alleviation on Wednesday as President Joe Biden was inaugurated as the country's 46th President, and also repealed core facets of Donald Trump's heritage on climate modification.
Jan 21, 2021 // Policy, USA, North America, Joe Biden
EPC business Blattner to discover tactical options in the form of sale or merger
Blattner Energy Inc., installer and also contractor of utility-scale renewable resource in North America, is discovering strategic choices which might take the type of a sale or merging.
Jan 21, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Blattner Energy, North America, J.P. Morgan
Solar cheapest form of brand-new power in significant markets as new tech drives sets you back lower, states WoodMac
Solar is now most affordable form of brand-new electricity in a host of international markets, driven by expense reductions as well as growth of bifaciality, large-area solar modules and trackers.
Jan 21, 2021 // Market Research, USA, Spain, Italy, India, China, LCOE, bifacial, Europe, Asia, woodmac, trackers, grid parity, North America, large-area wafers, large-area modules
Dominion Energy Gets 150 MW Solar Project in Ohio from Invenergy
Dominion Energy revealed today that a person of its subsidiaries has actually obtained the 150-megawatt (AC) Hardin solar creating facility, which recently entered solution in Hardin County, Ohio, from Chicago-based Invenergy.
Jan 20, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Dominion Energy, Invenergy, North America, Facebook, Ohio, International, Urvi Parekh, Ted Romaine, Diane Leopold