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Applications & Installations
Batteries under solar modules just like microinverters and optimizers Texan start-up Yotta Energy has a potential solution for residential solar-plus-storage. Will the micro-storage company become the next SolarEdge or Enphase or suffer the fate of JLM Energy? And whatever happened to SolPad?
Eric Wesoff
Feb 18, 2020
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California’s solar mandate to deliver more than 1 GW From pv magazine February edition California’s new residential solar mandate, effective from the first day of 2020, is going to add more than 1 GW of PV over the next five years, according to analysts. The US state already has a nation-leading 26.2 GW cumulative PV installed base. The new solar building code is directed […]
Eric Wesoff
Feb 14, 2020
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Californian mandate to deliver more than 1 GW California, the economic and cultural powerhouse of the United States, has long led the way when it comes to solar deployment – both on the rooftop and at utility scale. The state is now pushing forward with a solar mandate for new homes, which could be a ‘eureka moment’ for the U.S. solar sector.
Eric Wesoff
Feb 10, 2020
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Markets & Policy
Tesla secures $1.4 billion Shanghai factory loan, hits $420 share price Tesla finishes 2019 on a high note amid a flurry of year-end EV funding, news and optimism on longer-range electrics.
Eric Wesoff
Dec 27, 2019
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Applications & Installations
Tesla to hide ‘solar test-house’ under tents at California site CNBC has uncovered a recently granted building permit that allows Tesla to put up “two canopy covers” over its new “solar test houses.” Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that 2019 was “the year of the solar roof.”
Eric Wesoff
Dec 20, 2019
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Research & Development
1366 Technologies adds $18m in pursuit of cheaper silicon solar cells The company’s technology falls into the ‘kerfless’ wafer category: Instead of sawing silicon ingots into wafers, a time-consuming and wasteful process, 1366’s approach forms wafers directly, using molten silicon.
Eric Wesoff
Dec 18, 2019
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Markets & Policy
Hanergy: From thin-film solar savior to mass lay-offs at MiaSolé, Alta, Solibro and Global Solar Unannounced lay-offs with no pay or benefits have left more than 600 American workers, 180 employees in Germany and thousands in China unemployed and in the dark. Some of those affected have told pv magazine their story.
Eric Wesoff
Dec 16, 2019
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Applications & Installations
Residential solar set new US record in the last quarter with 712 MW The U.S. residential solar market – and 15 states – are at record highs according to analyst WoodMac’s ‘don’t call it a comeback’ Q3 report, driven by new market forces. The research firm held its 2019 U.S. solar forecast at 13 GW.
Eric Wesoff
Dec 13, 2019
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Applications & Installations
BlackRock aims $2.5bn at solar, wind and battery storage The good news is that the world’s largest fund manager, BlackRock, just closed $1 billion of a record $2.5 billion fund dedicated to solar, wind and energy storage projects. The bad news is that the $2.5 billion fund is a tiny fraction of BlackRock’s $6.96 trillion balance sheet and small change compared to BlackRock’s $17.5 billion investment in coal.
Eric Wesoff
Dec 09, 2019
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