Ampion Renewable Energy, a provider of community solar solutions, has launched Ampion+ – its new Green-e Energy certified product. Ampion is the first organization to build a product combining community solar subscriptions with renewable energy certificates (RECs), enabling enterprise organizations to reduce energy costs and substantiate environmental claims for environmental, social and corporate governance mandates. […]

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SolaREIT, a solar real estate investment fund, and funds managed by AB CarVal, a global alternative investment manager, have closed on an investment, initially of $100 million with up to $250 million in additional capital. The goal: to turbocharge growth of SolaREIT’s renewable land, lease and loan financing solutions. SolaREIT, which launched in late 2020, […]

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Solar investment funder and manager NT Solar is financing $65 million in solar investment tax credits for a portfolio of 100 solar installations across California. This investment is in partnership with ForeFront Power, a developer and long-term owner-operator of solar energy and storage projects. This portfolio, developed end-to-end by ForeFront Power and at a cost […]

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Ampt, a DC optimizer company focusing on large-scale photovoltaic systems, has released its i50 String Optimizer – the next generation of its power management solution. The i50 is designed to lower costs and improve performance of utility-scale PV or PV-plus-storage projects. It helps solar power plant developers, owners and operators increase clean energy generation and […]

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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc., a designer and manufacturer of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic solutions, has achieved cell production efficiency of 15.2% in its CIGS solar technology, a significant increase from the 10.8% standard efficiency measured for production material in 2012. This increase is attributed to the targeted optimization of the existing cadmium sulfide (Cds) deposition […]

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Arizona-based Erthos Inc., an energy technology company focused on advances for utility-scale solar, has 34 MW of new projects under contract. The commitments span agreements with five solar developers in the United States and represent the industry’s growing adoption of Earth Mount Solar PV technology. The new portfolio covers multiple geographic regions in the country […]

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Solar solutions provider Nextracker is set to launch a suite of next-generation innovations. Each of these releases builds upon proven technology that has been delivered to utility-scale solar power plants for three or more years. The product suite combines hardware, smart software and process innovations to deal with hail, undulating terrain and rapidly changing atmospheric […]

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Griffith Energy LLC, an affiliate of infrastructure investment firm ArcLight Capital Partners LLC, plans to construct a 2-MW behind-the-meter solar project at the Griffith Generating Station in Mohave County, Ariz. The project will serve to offset Griffith’s auxiliary electricity requirements, online or offline. With a reduced need to self-supply auxiliary energy with natural gas and […]

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Anza, a solar and energy storage procurement platform, is releasing a first-of-its-kind digital application designed to transform the selection and procurement process for large-scale solar and battery storage projects. Backed by a proprietary optimization engine, the platform enables buyers to instantly and easily source, compare and rank equipment based on long-term project value and lifecycle […]

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Nexamp, the nation’s largest community solar provider, has formed a new strategic partnership with Heliene Inc., a supplier of North American-made solar modules, that represents the largest community solar module order in United States history. The order provides Nexamp access to 1.5 GW of modules that will be produced at Heliene’s Minnesota facility. Over the […]

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Arka Energy, a global provider of lifestyle solar solutions and an innovator in solar technology, has launched its revolutionary 90 W glass-on-glass PowerTile to be manufactured by Premier Energies Limited. In a bid to reshape the renewable energy landscape Arka and Premier Energies have combined their expertise to manufacture high-efficiency solar modules. The 90W PowerTile […]

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Salt River Project (SRP), a public power utility serving the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, and CMBlu Energy, a designer and manufacturer of long-duration Organic SolidFlowT energy storage systems, are collaborating on a pilot project to deploy long-duration energy storage (LDES) in the Phoenix area. The 5 MW, 10-hour-duration project, named Desert Blume, will use CMBlu’s […]

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