Origin Energy to build Australia's biggest rooftop solar array
Origin Energy and Zen Energy Systems are to build a 3 MW solar system on the rooftop of the old Mitsubishi factory in Tonsley, Adelaide, in what will be the largest rooftop solar array in the country.
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Solar prepares to lift the roof in the UK, SolarEdge prepares to go public, Kaiser Permanente injects a a healthy dose of solar into its daily rounds, and fourth quarter financial reports come pouring in.
SolarCity soars into 2015 on record home solar sales
Construction activities at SolarCity’s gigawatt-sized panel manufacturing factory in Buffalo, New York, are temporarily on ice as the region shovels out from under this past week’s big snow dump.
SolarEdge files for $125 million IPO
The Israeli-headquartered power optimizer specialist filed an S-1 form with the SEC yesterday. Company’s recent growth underpinned by strong U.S. consumer base.
SMA hits 1 GW O&M landmark
The German inverter supplier has 840 MW of operational management contracts in North America alone, plans to further expand services in key markets.
Conergy UK creates rooftop division as British solar market matures
Strategy sign of wider reflection of the U.K. solar market’s diversification as it looks to maintain growth in a post-ROC landscape.
Sunrun opens new design engineering center in California
The facility will tailor-make system designs for U.S. homeowners in an effort to meet growing residential demand, the company says.
Lockheed Martin taps Advanced Roofing for PV plant in Florida
The solar carport will be the largest privately held, non-utility owned solar energy array in the state.
UK: solar threat to food security overstated by minister, documents show
Freedom of information request reveals government’s own environmental department has no evidence that solar farms have a serious impact on agricultural output.
Duke Energy scouts out 50 MW of solar in North Carolina
The utility has issued a request for proposals for new solar energy capacity in the state as it looks to add to its growing PV portfolio.
