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Boulder, Colo. (April 30, 2013) Pioneer solar garden developer Clean Energy Collective (CEC) commemorated the ground breaking for development of the first community solar garden to serve the City of Aurora and Arapahoe County. Xcel Energy’s residential and businesses customers will gain the opportunity to use clean, locally-produced renewable energy without the hassle or up-front cost of putting a system on their roof…or even needing to own a roof. The 500 kW Aurora/Arapahoe Solar Array is being construc...... continue reading
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London (April 25, 2013) – The worldwide market for PV storage is forecast to grow rapidly to reach $19 billion in 2017, from less than $200 million in 2012, according to a new report entitled ‘The Role of Energy Storage in the PV Industry’ from IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS). Following the introduction of an energy storage subsidy in Germany, global installations of PV storage systems are forecast to grow by more than 100 percent a year on average over the next five years, to reach almost...... continue reading
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El Segundo, Calif. (April 23, 2013)—Reflecting a major shift in the global solar market after four years of severe erosion, prices for photovoltaic (PV) modules in the key European market are rising due to number of factors—including the newly restored balance between supply and demand. The average selling price (ASP) for Chinese crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV modules shipped to the European Union increased by 4 percent in March, the first monthly rise since January 2009, according to the IHS iSuppli PV M...... continue reading
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Lawrence, MA - April 22, 2013 - Solectria Renewables, LLC, the leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, commissioned a 2.15MW array at Cedarville University today, Earth Day, in Cedarville, Ohio. Cincinnati-based project developer and EPC, Melink Corporation, chose Solectria Renewables' SGI series inverters to power this installation and SolrenViewTM, web-based monitoring, to monitor the array's energy activity. "We chose Solectria Renewables' inverters after extensive research of solar inverter manufactur...... continue reading
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BALTIMORE (April 22, 2013) — University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), Constellation and BITHENERGY today announced the completion of a 3.66-megawatt DC, grid-connected, solargeneration project in Somerset County, Md. In honor of the project’s completion, a celebration and ribbon-cutting were held today as part of Earth Day activities at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Representatives from UMMS, Constellation, BITHENERGY, and state and local government were on hand for the eve...... continue reading
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Annual Top 10 List Ranks Utilities by Megawatts and Watts-Per-Customer of Installed Solar Electricity Capacity Washington, D.C., April 16, 2013 – The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) today named the Top 10 American electric utilities that have added the most new solar power to their systems and the most solar on a watts-per-customer basis in 2012. This annual ranking, which identifies the companies that are integrating solar into the nation’s power grid, is part of the sixth annual Utility Solar ...... continue reading
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WASHINGTON, DC -- (April 16, 2013) The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and DOE's Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) extend their support for the truSolar® Working Group’s efforts to develop uniform open source risk scoring standards and rating criteria for solar projects that will facilitate lower transaction and capital costs, and improve project finance liquidity within the commercial and industrial solar segment. “truSolar represents a valuable opportu...... continue reading
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The Behavioral Program staff at ACEEE is pleased to announce today's publication of Trusted Partners: Everyday Energy Efficiency Across the South. We used a case study approach at sites in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana and talked with people in small towns and big cities, in their homes, on their farms, and about their businesses. Each interview included a core set of questions about demographics and basic energy use attitudes for a general picture of energy consumption in the South. Durin...... continue reading
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WASHINGTON D.C. AND BOSTON, MA— GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®) today released U.S. Solar Market Insight: Year-in-Review 2012 , the definitive analysis of solar power markets in the U.S. With another record-breaking year, solar is the fastest growing energy source in the U.S., powering homes, businesses and utility grids across the nation. The Solar Market Insight annual edition shows the U.S. installed 3,313 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaics (PV) in 2012, a record f...... continue reading
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London, U.K. (Mar. 6. 2013) – A new survey conducted by IMS Research – now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS) – of more than 400 global photovoltaic (PV) inverter customers has revealed a rapidly growing need for energy storage in PV systems. Despite the infancy of the energy storage market, nearly one third of respondents indicated that they expect to be using energy storage in over 40 percent of the PV systems they install by 2015. The recent survey of global installers, system integrators and wholesalers al...... continue reading
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