Horizon Power and PXiSE Energy Solutions successfully operate world’s first 100% solar-plus-storage-only community grid

Onslow, Australia’s hydrocarbon-free experience shows that it is possible for communities to operate entirely on a solar-plus-stored-energy modelKarratha, Western Australia and San Diego, Calif – June 18, 2021 – Horizon Power, Western…

Shell Gets Greener, Even as Climate Advocates Say, ‘Go Faster’

MINETY, England — On a clearing at the edge of a farm field, 40 big rectangular boxes the size of shipping containers sit behind a tall fence. Packed inside are stacks of lithium-ion cells and other electrical equipment.Wired together,…

How Climate Change Has Battered the West Before Summer Even Begins

A heat dome is baking Arizona and Nevada, where temperatures have soared past 115 degrees this week and doctors are warning that people can get third-degree burns from the sizzling asphalt.At Lake Mead, which supplies water for 25 million…

GAF Energy, Anbe Roofing Finish Largest Installation To Date

Roof-integrated solar products manufacturer GAF Energy says it has completed its largest residential solar roofing project: a 31 kW…

Siemens Turbines Helping to Back Up 600 MW of Nebraska Solar Power

The Siemens SGT6-5000F gas turbine Siemens Energy is providing two SGT6-5000F turbines to power Omaha Public Power District’s (OPPD)…

Urban solar interconnection can be modernized, simplified and standardized

By T.R. Ludwig, CEO and founder, Brooklyn SolarWorks and Colin Mattox, head of product marketing, ConnectDER Over the past decade, while solar has boomed in rural and suburban areas, urban solar has lagged. It’s not a mystery as to why.…

Solar advocates protest utility net-metering proposals at California Public Utility Commission

Clean energy advocates, environmental groups, solar consumers and businesses — fresh off defeating AB 1139 in the state legislature — are fighting back against the continued big utility “profit grab” that aims to make rooftop solar…

Soltec releases new tracker for modules in portrait orientation

Soltec today launched a new solar tracking system, SFOne, to the global market. The system allows for double rows in portrait orientation. SFOne includes Dy-Wind technology, a methodology for wind-resistant tracking structure success, and…

Environment America report finds utilities coordinate efforts to stall rooftop solar growth

Special interest groups across the country are working to stall the growth of rooftop solar, according to a new report released Thursday by Environment America Research & Policy Center and PIRG Education Fund. In particular, utilities…

Opsun releases free tool to realistically estimate “extra” yield from bifacial solar panels

Bifacial solar racking company Opsun today unveiled a free online tool that provides realistic estimates for the yield of bifacial solar panels on flat roofs — Opsunizer. “Bifacial solar panels have been around for some time, but solar…