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An unpredictable year saw the utility add 5,500 residential and commercial solar systems in North Carolina, contract for the largest floating solar system in the Southeast, and add three major players to the company’s Green Source Advantage program.

Parent company FirstEnergy is requesting 137,000 credits for a trio of utilities, with qualifying applications due in February.

In an interview with pv magazine publisher Eckhart Gouras, Tony Seba and Adam Dorr discuss their concept of “SuperPower” and argue that the resulting near-zero-cost energy could be used by states or regions to offer a competitive advantage to employers.

The capital will be used to improve upon existing products, develop next generation solutions and help the company scale.

The project is being constructed to help support Facebook’s data center in Newton County, Georgia, and represents the solar partners’ second such project.

The contract was awarded in response to Hawaiian Electric’s request for dispatchable energy storage and renewable generation through distributed energy resources along with capacity and ancillary services.

One of the state program’s main goals is to “support communities feeling the impacts of the transition from coal.”

The Spanish energy company bought developer Hamel Renewables, whose project portfolio includes 8 GW of solar and 4.6 GW of energy storage.

In the second of a three-part interview with pv magazine publisher Eckhart Gouras, Tony Seba and Adam Dorr discuss their concept of “SuperPower” and argue that by investing in even more solar PV and wind power, electrons will become so cheap that a Walmart would give them away to draw shoppers.

The Tesla Solar Inverter comes in 3.8 kW and 7.6 kW versions, and features two and four maximum power point trackers.