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NV Energy Exceeds Nevada’s Renewable Requirement for Eighth Straight Year

Company achieved an overall 23.8 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard in 2017, ahead of Nevada’s 20 percent requirement LAS VEGAS: NV Energy filed its 2017 Renewable Portfolio Standard Annual Report with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN), showing that the company achieved a 25.5 percent renewable energy and related credits level in northern Nevada and […]

Sunpreme Earns 2018 North American New Product Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan for Bifacial Smart Solar PV Panels

Award highlights Innovative Technology, Superior Lifetime Yields and Safest Long-term Energy Investments — for Commercial & Industrial Customers SAN FRANCISCO: Sunpreme, Inc., a US-based solar photovoltaic company that designs and manufactures its own bifacial cells, advanced solar panels, and systems, took the 2018 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award. Sunpreme GxB380 Bifacial Smart Solar […]

Apparent Energy Achieves Peak Output During Solar Panel Test Against Competitors

ASHLAND, Ore.: Apparent Energy has been conducting a series of experiments with its patented Dielectric Energy Converter technology (DEC). The latest experiment, conducted on February 28, 2018, tested the efficiency of the product in rainy weather conditions. This experiment compared the Hybrid Boost charge controller, featuring DEC technology to multiple competitors’ devices that are supposed […]

NextEra Energy and JinkoSolar announce deal for millions of solar panels; JinkoSolar to begin manufacturing solar panels in Florida

JUNO BEACH, Fla. and SHANGHAI: Two global solar energy leaders, U.S.-based NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) and China-based JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: JKS), today announced one of the largest solar panel supply deals in history. NextEra Energy announced that it is the counterparty to a major supply agreement that was announced by JinkoSolar in […]

Struggling US Polysilicon Producers Are a Forgotten Casualty in the Solar Trade War With China

Polysilicon production, once dominated by America, has been taken over by China. It’s a direct consequence of tariffs and failed negotiations In January, Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office next to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and delivered a verdict thesolarindustry had anticipated for months: A 30 percent tariff would be levied on imported […]