Profit and revenue swell for Canadian Solar during Q2
The second quarter financial results for the Chinese-Canadian solar firm reveal above-guidance growth in revenue and shipments, while profit rises to $168 million for the quarter.
What causes PID?
Potentially Induced Degradation (PID) can significantly impact PV system output and be a real headache for system owners. But what is PID, what causes it, and what can be done to prevent it?
Sempra swoops up 200 MW-AC of PV from Recurrent
The power company has acquired the massive Great Valley Solar project near Fresno, as part of an increasing trend of mainstream power companies buying up renewable energy assets.
Inverter quality and warranties more important to owners
The demand for high quality inverters has led all but the shortest-outlook equipment purchasers to move into Tier 1, in large part because of the more solid warranty offered.
Co-op solar project goes online in Wisconsin
The first of the projects under Dairyland Power’s 15 MW initiative has come online.
SunPower to sell its stake in 8point3
The high efficiency PV maker has decided not to find a replacement for fellow sponsor First Solar, and instead to get out of the yieldco business.
Three-year-old developer sPower sold for $1.6 billion
Nurtured by Fir Tree Partners since 2014, the fledgling utility-scale developer and IPP nets the hedge fund sponsor a windfall as it is sold to a Canadian-American joint venture.
Maine regulators approve state’s largest solar project
A first phase of the 9.9 MW project is expected to be completed by the end of the year, as one of the first under a 50 MW pilot community-owned renewables program.
Hawaii approves contracts for 110 MW-AC of utility-scale solar
NRG will build three large projects for utility HECO, which includes the state’s largest solar plant to date.
Big Sky, small solar, smaller terms
A Montana solar project that would have quadrupled the state’s installed solar has been bushwhacked in the regulatory process, putting solar and even any power plant development in the state in question.
