Solar public market funding rose to $1.8 billion across 14 deals compared with $1 billion raised across 23 deals during the same period in 2017. At the same time, large-scale project funding announced during the first three quarters of 2018 crossed $11 billion for the development of 137 projects.
California’s small solar owners pay for the transmission of electricity they don’t use, but relief is on the way.
Canadian solar tracker company GP Joule is headed across the border to sell turnkey solar farms in 10 targeted US states across the country this year, says David Pichard, the director and executive officer of the Toronto-based company. His company has already been selling its Phlegon brand solar tracker systems in Minnesota for community solar projects, and other solar projects in Hawaii and Nevada.
There may be a growing number of solar application ideas that die off before going mainstream, never having tapped enough technology, financial backing, and market savvy to last. But it seems solar roof shingles is not one of those. Dow withdrew from the market, but Exasun and Tesla moved in. Now, there’s also a smart new set of patent-pending thin-film CIGs solar shingles being offered by Sunflare Solar, based in La Verne, California. The company refers to the cell technology as Capture 4.
Global market analyst DNV GL peeled back the layers of its recent forecast on global energy source evolution to reveal that solar & wind energy, buoyed by offshore wind, will grow to represent nearly 70% of global electricity production by 2050, according to Richard Barnes, the Executive Vice President and Regional Manager for the Energy Business Area of the company in North America.
The U.S. utility market for energy storage this fall is warming ahead of expectations, with requests for proposals accelerating from a mild demand level earlier this year. This firming 2018 market was not predicted by some storage system manufacturers until two years from now, when more field performance data will be available to confirm manufacturers’ claims.
CleanTechnica’s Charles W. Thurston sat down Tuesday morning with Abigail Ross Harper, the CEO of the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), based in Washington, to discuss the state of the solar union at Day 2 of the Solar Power Industry (SPI) show taking place this week in Anaheim.
Array Technologies, a company we recently featured due to its work testing bifacial solar panels and solar trackers, has added a set of software algorithms dubbed SmarTrack to its latest generation of solar tracker, the DuraTrack HZ v3, enhancing the system ability to react to weather and site conditions.
