Recent Solar

Innovative Solution Offers Groundbreaking Design, Performance and Safety Features After much anticipation, SMA is now taking orders for its new transformerless inverters designed specifically for the North American market. SMA’s Sunny Boy 3000TL-US/4000TL-US/5000TL-US inverters are an innovative residential solution featuring maximum energy production, flexible design, simple installation, and advanced communication and monitoring control. The inverter’s [...]

Upsolar, a leading international provider of solar PV modules, today announced the completion of a 1.5 MW solar electric system in Kozani, capital of the West Macedonia region in Greece. This marks the first installation in the region completed by Upsolar’s Project Development Department. The ground-mounted project is comprised of three-500 kW systems and more [...]

In two separate commercial rooftop solar projects valued at approximately $2.0M, Carmanah Technologies (TSX: CMH) was awarded to design and build roof mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) systems that will deliver a total of 500kW of renewable energy for the province of Ontario. The solar PV systems, being installed on commercial rooftops in Chatham-Kent and Ottawa, [...]

To approach higher conversion efficiency of solar cells, Gintech Energy Corporation, a global leading cell manufacturer, announces its competitive high efficiency solar cells “Diamond Series” at SNEC (2013) PV POWER EXPO, Shanghai, China, May 2013. Gintech announces the successful development of its Diamond multicrystalline cell with a peak conversion efficiency of 19.5%, measured by TÜV [...]

Optimized By SolarEdge: SolarEdge Obtains Global Certification for Its 2nd Generation of Smart Junction Boxes, Reaches Milestone of Two Million Power Optimizers Shipped SolarEdge obtains global certification for its 2nd generation smart junction boxes Hod Hasharon, Israel – May 13 – SolarEdge Technologies, a leading global provider of end-to-end solar power optimization systems and monitoring [...]

Canadian Solar Inc., (“the Company”, “Canadian Solar”) (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world’s largest solar power companies, Duke Energy Renewables, Integrys Energy Services and Community Energy Solar today announced the completion of two 1-megawatt (MW) AC solar power projects in Sterling, Massachusetts. The community-oriented Sterling projects are co-owned by Canadian Solar and INDU Solar Holdings [...]

Standard Solar, Inc., a leader in the full-service development, construction, integration, financing and installation of solar electric systems, today announced the completed installation of an 865 kW PV solar array on the custom-designed 100,000 net square foot rooftop of Knorr Brake Corporation’s (KBC) new facility in Westminster, Maryland. Financed through a long-term Power Purchase Agreement [...]

Large-scale solar system provider builds presence in world’s largest solar market Solaria Corporation today announced it has established operations in China to meet demand for high efficiency large-scale solar projects. “As China expands its deployment of solar energy, there is a big push toward increasing the efficiency and reliability of large-scale solar power plants,” said [...]

Record-setting Performance and top yields with the new G3-Series solar champions State-of-the-art modules of G3 Family by Hanwha Q Cells to be shown to the public at Munich’s Intersolar 2013 for the first time Hanwha Q CELLS, a leading Germany-based photovoltaic company, announced the newest generation of its high-end modules; Q.PEAK-G3 and Q.PRO-G3. These modules [...]

Secretary Ratan P. Watal in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and Prof. Eicke Weber, Institute Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) a short time ago in Berlin in the presence of Sujata Singh, the Indian Ambassador to Germany. [...]