Standard Solar installs New York’s largest community solar + storage project

New York’s largest community solar + storage project is nearing completion. Standard Solar developed, installed and funded the 6.9-MW community distributed generation project in Lenox. The Lenox Community Solar Project is made of 17,966…

Abundant Solar and Solar Alliance ally to build large-scale PV in Southeast U.S.

Solar Alliance Energy has partnered with Canadian developer Abundant Solar Power to pursue large-scale utility solar projects in the Southeast. The projects will range from 1 MW to 10 MW or larger, and will typically involve competitive bids…

AEP Energy and Doral Sign Additional Solar Power Purchase Deal

Doral Renewables LLC's Mammoth Solar I project American Electric Power’s AEP Energy subsidiary and Doral Renewables LLC (formerly…

How fintech can boost solar company margins and ROI

In this special edition of Contractors Corner, leaders at solar installation business management platform BluBanyan and bank-to-bank payment software firm Paystand talk about how financing technology can help boost solar company margins and…

The U.S. solar industry has a Chinese problem

The silicon solar PV cell was invented in America, yet we now have no hand in its production. How did we let China dominate solar manufacturing? Source: Bell Labs An engineer, a chemist and a physicist walk into a lab on April 25, 1954.…

Aurora Solar acquires Folsom Labs in big solar software move

Aurora Solar today announced the acquisition of Folsom Labs, the developer of HelioScope. “Aurora Solar and Folsom Labs share a common mission to build a future of solar energy for all,” said Christopher Hopper, co-founder of Aurora Solar.…

BayWa r.e. donates another $10,000 in training tuition fees to Solar Energy International students

Solar Energy International (SEI) and BayWa r.e. announced the continuation of their partnership to provide scholarship funds, re-upping their commitment to award another $10,000 in solar training tuition fees to SEI students. The BayWa r.e.…

Renewable energy coalition asks Congress for residential ITC direct pay option

More than 300 environmental justice advocates, environmental groups and renewable energy companies sent a letter to leaders of the Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees today supporting a direct pay option for the residential…

Orbital Solar Services building 132-MW array in the Southeast

Orbital Solar Services (OSS) was awarded an EPC contract to construct a 132.2-MWDC/100-MWAC solar project in the Southeast. Under the Contract terms, OSS will provide full utility-scale EPC services, including substation construction, and…

U.S. government advances three solar projects sited on 4,700 acres of public land

The Dept. of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has begun the public review process on the draft environmental analysis (EA) for the proposed Arica and Victory Pass solar projects in Riverside County, California. The two projects…