K2 Systems and Roof Tech develop top-mount attachment for shingle rooftop solar projects

K2 Systems, formerly Everest Solar Systems, is known for developing German-engineered racking systems, but throughout 2020 has released its version of roof attachments to complement those systems. K2’s engineering and sales teams partnered…

July solar policy snapshots

New Jersey installers may soon be busy with many large-scale solar installations on warehouse roofs if Gov. Phil Murphy signs new solar-ready building legislation. California assembly bill attempting to alter net-metering credits fails to…

A guide to bidding for, procuring and performing federal solar contracts

By Christopher Horton, partner, Smith Currie The federal government is the largest energy purchaser in the United States, with an annual electricity bill for the fiscal year 2019 of almost $4 billion. As a result, President Biden’s administration…

Swedish investment company acquires solar developer Cypress Creek Renewables

Stockholm, Sweden-based investment company EQT is acquiring U.S. solar developer Cypress Creek Renewables. Cypress Creek develops, owns, and operates solar and energy storage projects throughout the United States and employs about 300 people. The…

Korea-Based Heavy Hitters Form Partnership Focused on Zero Energy Homes

Q CELLS has signed a memorandum of understanding with Samsung Electronics to strengthen both companies’ strategic cooperation and create synergy in the global residential energy market. At…

EQT Buying Solar, Storage Developer Cypress Creek Renewables

3MW solar project in North Carolina owned and operated by Cypress Creek Investment firm EQT is acquiring Cypress Creek Renewables from…

Climate Change Is Making It Harder for Campers to Beat the Heat

Jill Laidlaw has worked for 37 years at Camp Cavell in Lexington, Mich., a little spot of paradise on Lake Huron. But she has seen trouble in paradise: climate change.Temperatures in Michigan have risen by two to three degrees, on average,…

It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water?

ORDBEND, Calif. — In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all.It explains why, amid a historic drought parching much of the American West, a grower of premium sushi rice has concluded that it makes better…

Supreme Court Backs Pipeline in Case on New Jersey Land Seizures

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for a pipeline to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, ruling that PennEast Pipeline Company, the project’s developer, may exercise the federal government’s…

In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate Action

The veteran oil-industry lobbyist was told he was meeting with a recruiter. But the video call, which was secretly recorded, was part of an elaborate sting operation by an individual working for the environmental group Greenpeace UK.During…