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Long Island reaches 35,000 residential solar installations

This puts Long Island at as much as 280 MW of installed residential PV, as the largest regional market in the state.

Sometimes you win: the pv magazine USA week in review

This week we saw policy wins in California and New York City, as well as some good signs from Nevada and a promising policy in Massachusetts – not to mention documentation of a big fall in solar costs.

Nevada: Governor’s task force recommends bringing back net metering

While advocates welcomed the gesture, these recommendations will require legislative action to become reality.

pv magazine LIVE video coverage of Solar Power International 2016

Our new videos from America’s largest solar trade show feature interviews with the CEOs of First Solar and SolarWorld Americas.

Google solar project wins UN climate solutions award

Project Sunroof, an initiative led by Google, has been announced as one of 13 winners of the United Nations ‘Momentum for Change’ climate change award, by enabling tens of millions of Americans to evaluate the solar potential of their home with just the click of a button, showing them both monetary savings and environmental impact.

NREL: Utility-scale solar costs fall below $1.50 per watt (with charts)

The latest report by NREL shows an ongoing decline in costs across sectors, with soft costs remaining stubbornly high for residential installations.

Grid Alternatives will install 92 solar projects on U.S. tribal lands

Thanks to a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Oakland, Calif.-based non-profit solar installer will put 394 kW to electrify areas that are often underserved by utilities.

SolarCity raises another $347 million, switches CFOs

Tanguy Serra will be stepping down from his post as president as well at the end of the year.

New York’s REV process: More questions than answers

Progress is slow in terms of concrete details in New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative, but some of that may be inevitable.

SunPower subsidiary suing SolarCity for IP theft

Case by Cogenra Solar and Khosla Ventures filed in San Francisco yesterday accuses SolarCity and its subsidiary Silevo of misappropriating trade secrets concerning shingling technology. SolarCity refutes case, and alleges trade-secret theft of SunPower employee.

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