Array Technologies posts a successful Q3, predicts a strong end to 2020
The tracker company has seen significant growth in 2020 and has performed well since going public in October. With a strong order sheet, including 1.4 GW of trackers from Lightsource BP alone, the company is showing no signs of slowing down in 2021.
Inverter builder SMA swings to profit in first three quarters of 2020, grows despite pandemic
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the photovoltaic inverter maker grew its revenue compared to the previous year.
Oxford PV’s German perovskite solar module plant backed by Brandenburg state with $10 million
Oxford PV is currently building a manufacturing facility for its silicon perovskite tandem solar cells in Brandenburg an der Havel.
Jigar Shah: Policy action and tech deployments needed for power sector innovation
“We’ve averaged 2.4 cents a kilowatt hour for the last six months for PPAs. That’s actually too low. I think we would be fine at 3.4 cents… I don’t think that solar and wind industries would skip a beat [without their tax incentives], and they have other policy mechanisms.”
Clean energy funding roundup: batteries under solar panels, carbon capture acquisition, ultracaps
Yotta Energy just won seed funding to install batteries under solar modules — in an architecture analogous to microinverters and optimizers.
Morning Brief: Biden’s energy transition team, BlackRock CEO backs mandatory climate reporting
Also in the brief: The Solar Foundation and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council are merging, Trump administration removes scientist in charge of assessing climate change, Cypress Creek closed a seven-year, $200 million debt financing, and solar-powered butter.
Energy Transition Jobs at Trina Solar, LevelTen Energy, NREL, Fluence, Sonnedix, SEPA and FERC
Executive jobs and job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities and energy transition finance.
Clean Energy Accelerator odds increase on Biden win, US net-zero grid goal
The Clean Energy Accelerator, as envisioned in legislation introduced earlier this year and late last year, pairs each public dollar with multiple private dollars to expand clean energy’s reach in the US.
Solar stocks opened strong on Biden win and vaccine breakthrough, but uncertainty lingers
The solar industry may have to certify that there is no forced labor in its value chain.
SunRun’s Q3 earnings reveal strong growth and dynamic positioning
“Order volumes have increased significantly” and Sunrun expects to grow megawatts deployed by over 20% sequentially in the third quarter.
