Polar Racking announced that it has partnered with two U.S. original equipment manufacturing facilities to produce its solar mounting solutions. The company declined to disclose the manufacturers to Solar Power World. Located in Michigan and Florida, the facilities will help Polar Racking meet the growing...
Read MoreA new factory in Tennessee officially was unveiled today that will make steel components for Nextracker solar tracking systems. The Memphis-based facility houses MSS Steel Tubes USA, a joint venture of Metalogalva and Soufer, and will manufacture Nextracker steel torque tubes. The site supports 129 jobs....
Read MoreThe Dept. of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service have released guidance for solar project developers seeking a bonus credit for using “domestic content” via the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Dept. of Energy and Dept. of Transportation assisted in the guidance. Projects that use American-made...
Read MoreMounted on the rooftops of industrial buildings, solar panels could meet the entire electricity demand of up to 35% of U.S. manufacturers. A new study, published in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research: Sustainability and Infrastructure, investigates the feasibility of meeting these electricity demands through on-site...
Read MoreOn May 4, the Solar and Storage Industries Institute (SI2) announced the launch of a new one-year project on large-scale interconnection reforms. Founded last May, SI2 is dedicated to accelerating the adoption of clean energy through research, public education initiatives and policy analysis. “As we...
Read MoreGonvarri Solar Steel, a subsidiary of Gonvarri Industries from Madrid, Spain, that manufactures solar racking and trackers, is supplying 72 MW of its TracSmarT+ single- and dual-row trackers for a solar project in Texas. The solar project will support Ferrovial Webber Energy, an infrastructure construction...
Read MoreIRS provides guidance on energy community bonus credit in IRA Washington, D.C. The Dept. of the Treasury has issued eligibility requirements for “energy communities” seeking a 10% ITC or PTC adder via the Inflation Reduction Act. The three types of energy communities include brownfields, retired...
Read MoreThe Dept. of Commerce has pushed the deadline to issue a final decision on an antidumping/countervailing duties (AD/CVD) circumvention investigation to August 17, 2023. The final decision was supposed to come next week. Jose Rivera, International Trade Compliance Analyst, AD/CVD Operations, Office VII, stated in...
Read MoreComEd and Summit Ridge Energy announced the completion of three community solar projects in Streator, Illinois, including the 80th community solar project in ComEd’s northern Illinois service region. The projects will enable residents to save money on their ComEd electric bills while supporting the expansion...
Read MoreThe rapid transition to renewable energy offers opportunities to reset the broken relationship between energy production and nature, according to a new report by the Coalition Linking Energy And Nature for action (CLEANaction). In its first major report, CLEANaction confirms that even when the full...
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