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Flextronics to Partner with SunEdison to Manufacture Solar Modules in Mexico

Building on a strong partnership of approximately five years, Flextronics today announced that it has once again been selected to partner with SunEdison to manufacture its solar modules—this time, in Mexico.

8 Apr 2015

New Solar Array at Bloomfield Pepperidge Farm Bakery Comes Online

Campbell Soup Company, in partnership with BNB Renewable Energy Holdings and SunPower Corp., today announced that a 1-megawatt (MW) solar array at its Pepperidge Farm bakery in Bloomfield has officially come online. Commercial operation for the solar array, which is generating the equivalent of 15 percent of the bakery’s annual energy demand, began on Dec. 26, 2014.

8 Apr 2015

tenKsolar and SoCore Energy Partner to Deliver Commercial and Community Solar Garden Projects

tenKsolar, a Minneapolis based manufacturer of low voltage, highly efficient photovoltaic (PV) systems and SoCore Energy, a premier developer of commercial solar projects, today announced that they are joining forces to deliver commercial and community solar garden projects built on tenK's PV systems technology.

8 Apr 2015

Millionth Solar Module Installed at 250-MW Copper Mountain Solar 3 Project in Nevada

The Energy Alternatives Division of Cupertino Electric, Inc. today announced that it has installed the last of more than one million modules at Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and Consolidated Edison Development’s 250-megawatt (MW) AC Copper Mountain Solar 3 project in Boulder City, Nevada.

8 Apr 2015

Red Horse 2 PV Solar Project in Cochise County, Arizona Nears Completion

Blymyer Engineers, the nation's leading utility scale solar design and engineering firm, announced the Red Horse 2 photovoltaic solar project in Cochise County, Arizona is nearing completion.

7 Apr 2015

OneRoof Energy and RGS Energy Enter Synergistic Partnership to Offer Comprehensive Residential Solar Solutions

RGS Energy, one of the nation's largest and most recognized rooftop installers of solar equipment, and OneRoof Energy, Inc., a leading residential solar services provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of OneRoof Energy Group, Inc., have entered into an agreement to jointly offer comprehensive solar solutions to residential solar customers in New York, Massachusetts and California.

7 Apr 2015

RET Capital Acquires 14.1MW DC CityLights Solar Power Plant from Canadian Solar

Renewable Energy Trust Capital, Inc. (RET Capital) has acquired the 14.1-megawatt DC (MW DC) CityLights solar power plant in Chesterville, Ontario, from Canadian Solar, Inc.. With the close of this deal, RET Capital now owns three solar plants built by Canadian Solar across the province, totaling more than 40 MW DC of generating capacity.

7 Apr 2015

Canadian Solar Energizes Four Solar Projects Totaling 40.2MWp in the UK

Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company", or "Canadian Solar"), one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that it energized four projects totaling 40.2 MWp in the United Kingdom, Hoplass Solar Park, Christchurch Solar Park, Coombe Solar Park, and Moat Farm Solar Plant. All four parks use Canadian Solar's 60 cell solar modules, CS6P-250|255|260P.

From Canadian Solar 6 Apr 2015

Intelligent Battery Energy Storage Scheduling and Operation System Holds Promise for LV Electricity Network

With rising electricity prices one of the biggest issues facing households, Griffith University (Australia) research into energy storage and supply holds the promise of cheaper, better quality power for the low voltage (LV) electricity distribution network.

6 Apr 2015

Inexpensive, Environmentally Beneficial Solar Cooling System to Maintain Food

Maintaining food in places where high temperatures prevail, using little energy at a low cost, it is now possible with Mexican technology, thanks to the creation of a solar cooling system designed by Susana Elvia Toledo Flores.

6 Apr 2015