Everything you need to know

By Ali McBride, Aurora Solar Even the most ardent solar evangelists can agree on one limitation solar panels have: they only produce electricity when the sun is shining. But, peak energy use tends to come in the evenings, coinciding with…

JPMorgan Sets Aside Trillions to Advance Long-Term Climate Change Solutions

JPMorgan Chase, a global financial services firm, says it aims to finance and facilitate more than $2.5 trillion over 10 years –…

DESRI Brings Cove Mountain Solar Projects Online

D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a company that acquires, owns and manages long-term contracted renewable energy assets in North America, says the 180 MW AC Cove Mountain solar…

Renewables, Declining Costs Fuel the Global Energy Storage Market

The continual expansion of intermittent renewables and declining technology costs are key factors fueling the global grid battery energy storage market, according to recent analysis by…

Trina Solar Launches New Line of Dual-Row Trackers

Trina Solar Co. Ltd., a global photovoltaic (PV) and smart energy total solution provider, has launched the TrinaTracker Agile 1P Dual-Row.  The Agile 1P tracker is fully compatible…

SEIA Lays Out Organization’s Environmental Justice Priorities

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), a national non-profit trade association of the U.S. solar-energy industry, has unveiled its environmental justice priorities through a new…

California Congressman Introduces MICROGRID Act

Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., has introduced the Making Imperiled Communities Resistant to Outages with Generation that is Resilient,…

How solar installers can help keep the lights on in Texas, and elsewhere

By Jon Franke, Blog Editor, Aurora Solar The recent severe winter weather in Texas led to a virtually unprecedented situation where millions of people were left without power, heat, and even water. Losing power wasn’t the only issue. Many…

GoodWe receives top inverter classification from EUPD Research

Chinese inverter company GoodWe announced it has been listed as a top inverter brand in six countries by EUPD Research. According to the survey, GoodWe is the preferred rooftop inverter brand in the Netherlands, Australia, Poland, Spain,…

Solar Technology: Taking a Better Tack with Trackers

Module mounting structures for solar PV systems are mostly found in two flavors: fixed-tilt and tracking. While fixed-tilt systems require lower capital expenditure, need less maintenance…