Charles W. Thurston
Sonoma’s SOMO village community expands to 3 MW/1MW solar + storage
SOMO Village, a $1 billion mixed-use community in Rohnert Park, CA., is adding another 2,500 solar panels plus storage to reach a new total of 3.1 MW of PV; this third PV expansion is being supplied by REC Solar, along with an initial 1 MW of storage supplied by Green Charge.
NEXTracker hits global No. 1 solar-tracker position
NEXTracker achieves #1 global solar tracker market share with 24 percent of the global share and 5 GW delivered, according to GTM Research.
Green Charge wins 13 MWh Con Ed aggregation deal
Green Charge Networks has won a contract award from New York utility Con Edison to deliver 13 megawatt hours for Con Edison’s Brooklyn-Queens Neighborhood Program.
Fronius Launches Smart Meter for Feed-In Management
Fronius is launching its Smart Meter to manage PV feed-in limits and monitor energy consumption.
Mercedes-Benz enters the U.S. energy storage market
Move over Elon. Mercedes-Benz Energy Americas has entered the wide-open U.S. EV+storage — or just storage — market, cherry-picking former sonnen USA CEO Boris von Bormann to lead the charge.
Younicos to supply the NEXT smart city project in Denver
Younicos, Xcel Energy, and Panasonic North America will collaborate on a 1MW storage system linked to 2 MW of solar at Panasonic’s Denver operations hub within the NEXT smart city development.
Sun Action Trackers Finalizes UL 3703 Certification
Sun Action Trackers (SAT), based in San Antonio, Texas has finalized UL 3703 certification for its PST-1AX6 single axis tracker, including the tracker’s self-healing MAC Steel (magnesium alloy coated steel) coating.
iDES3 Launches Residential, C&I Storage Units
San Diego-based iDemand Energy Storage (iDES3) already has sold $15 million worth of its lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4)-based energy storage systems since the company was launched in August.
The eyes have it
Conspicuous solar: Getting the public to embrace solar energy has never been a straightforward task, but as the technology moves past its awkward teen phase, some genuinely impressive and innovative adaptations of solar PV are beginning to turn heads.
NEXTracker wind testing stands up to Hurricane Matthew
NEXTracker recently sent us a photo of its trackers standing unharmed in a small lake of water delivered by Hurricane Matthew, emphasizing the point that rigorous wind testing is good for the solar industry.
