April 2022

A 961 kW solar array on the rooftop of Phoenix Contact’s U.S. headquarters will generate about 30% of the facility’s energy needs. Phoenix Contact partnered with Gatter & Diehl Consulting Engineers and Terrasol Energies Inc. to design the rooftop solar array. Phoenix Contact designed and installed monitoring components of the system. This includes many Phoenix

Tandem PV, a California-based photovoltaic technology company specializing in ultra-high-efficiency tandem metal-halide perovskite solar panels, has closed the initial $6 million of its $12M Series A financing round. Bioeconomy capital, an early-stage venture capital company, led the round through its Planetary Technologies fund. Participation came from an international solar manufacturer as well as a U.S.

Polar Racking is supplying the foundations and racking to Aspin Kemp & Associates Inc. (AKA) for the Sunbank Project in Summerside, PEI. The project includes a community microgrid that has a capacity of 26.26MW DC and a 10MW battery energy storage system. AKA was selected as the EPC. “The Summerside Sunbank

EDP Renewables, through its fully-owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC(EDPR NA), and Bristol Myers Squibb were able to execute a 15 year power purchase agreement (PPA), covering 60 MW at the 240 MW Cattlemen Solar Park in Milam County. This solar park is located in central Texas. The agreement will allow EDPR NA, which

A worker in an industrial setting up solar panels on a roof. (Courtesy: Shutterstock) Follow @EngelsAngle In its first year, a free app that instantly processes permit applications for rooftop solar and storage permit applications saved nearly 5,000 hours. SolarAPP+, a web-based platform developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is integrated directly into local

Amazon Solar Farm – Eastern Shore, an 80 MW AC Project developed by Community Energy, is located in Accomack County (Va). Amazon’s 37 new renewable energy projects put the company five years ahead of its original target to power 100% of its operations with renewable energy by 2030. The new projects increase the capacity of

JM Steel worker in Sinton, Texas on Nextracker-dedicated production lines. Nextracker and JM Steel (a division of JENNMARUSA) have launched a dedicated solar tracker manufacturing line at the Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI), facility near Corpus Christi. Nextracker and JM Steel have opened a new facility to produce low-carbon tracker components that can be used in

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U.S. solar panel imports fell during the first quarter, according to analysis from S&P Local Market Intelligence. According to industry sources, the drop occurred as the industry waited for the U.S. Commerce Department to investigate allegations that Chinese-based solar panel manufacturers were dumping solar modules in other Asian countries in an attempt to avoid U.S.