The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has issued countermeasures for a change to the 2024 International Building Code that could increase the costs and inspection requirements of ground-mounted solar projects. FEMA has proposed raising the risk category for ground-mounted solar from risk category I —...
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today issued six Notices requesting public input on key climate and clean energy tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. The Notices mark a key first step in the formal process of implementing...
Read MoreSolar panel company Solaria will merge with California-based residential sales platform provider Complete Solar to form a new company: Complete Solaria. This will allow the new company to act as a full system operator, providing residential installers with sales expertise, design assistance and product access....
Read MoreBrookfield Renewable, together with its institutional partners, announced two further investments in the U.S. renewable energy sector. Brookfield Renewable has agreed to acquire Scout Clean Energy for $1 billion with the potential to invest an additional $350 million to support the business’ development activities ($270...
Read MoreIndependent power producer Soltage announced the close of a 28 MW solar project that has started construction in Ohio on land owned by the Cincinnati Zoo. Soltage acquired the project from Melink Solar Development, a leader in pre-construction development services for large-scale solar PV projects....
Read MoreFluke has introduced the Solar Multifunction Tester 1000 (SMFT-1000), the latest addition to their expanding line of solar tools. The SMFT-1000 offers up-to-date hardware measurement capabilities with Fluke TruTest Solar Software integration, simplifying data collection and reporting with a single tool. The SMFT-1000 features: Industry-standard...
Read MoreSenator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)’s legislation, SB 379, the Solar Access Act, passed both houses of California’s legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The bill implements instant, online solar permitting in cities and counties. This legislation will greatly decrease approval times...
Read MoreWith the Solar Energy Manufacturing for America Act passed within the Inflation Reduction Act, America’s solar manufacturing sector is set to scale dramatically. To support the forecasted growth of 60 GW of solar deployed annually from 2025 to 2030 and ensure better oversight of U.S....
Read MoreMobile software company FotoNotes has acquired SiteCapture, a field operations platform used in the solar industry. In addition, FotoNotes announced a name change for the combined entity to SiteCapture, to better represent the company’s product offering. With this acquisition, SiteCapture will offer a mobile field...
Read MoreThe Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is expected to help the U.S. solar market grow 40% over baseline projections through 2027, equal to 62 GW of additional solar capacity, according to new forecasts in the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q3 2022 report released today by the...
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