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Mission Solar Energy to cut solar cell production line, lay off 87 employees

San Antonio-based Mission Solar Energy is eliminating its solar cell production line and 87 jobs along with it, as the company faces direct competition from manufacturers in China.Mission Solar officials confirmed the job cuts shortly after employees were notified on Friday morning. Company spokeswoman Laura Waldrum told the Business Journal that the plant will remain […]

BYU Goes Green with Legend Solar Sponsorship

Brigham Young University Athletics is going green with a solar power sponsorship from Legend Solar, the fastest-growing solar power company in Utah. The agreement makes Legend Solar the official solar provider of BYU Athletics and includes plans to work with athletics to install an 800-kilowatt solar power system, saving the athletic department millions of dollars […]

NREL Report Shows U.S. Solar Photovoltaic Costs Continuing to Fall in 2016

NREL U.S. PV system cost benchmarks, from the fourth quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2016. The modeled costs to install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems continued to decline in the first quarter of 2016 in the U.S. residential, commercial, and utility-scale sectors, according to updated benchmarks from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory […]

NREL:U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark: Q1 2016

This report benchmarks U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) system installed costs as of the first quarter of 2016 (Q1 2016). We use a bottom-up methodology, accounting for all system and projectdevelopment costs incurred during the installation, to model the costs for residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems. In general, we attempt to model the typical installation techniques […]

TXU Energy Announces Instant Rebate for Residential Solar Rooftop Systems, Unveils Plan to Credit Customers More for Their Excess Solar Electricity

TXU Energy today announced a limited-time instant rebate for residential consumers who purchase SunPower® rooftop solar systems through the company. At the same time, TXU Energy unveiled a new plan that increases the credit customers get for the electricity that their solar systems generate but they don’t use.TXU Energy’s instant rebate and its new offer […]

Canadian Solar Subsidiary Recurrent Energy Reaches Commercial Operation of 60 Megawatt Barren Ridge Solar Project

Canadian Solar Inc. one of the world’s largest solar power companies, receently announced commercial operation of the 60 MWac/78 MWp Barren Ridge solar photovoltaic (PV) project developed by the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary Recurrent Energy. The Barren Ridge solar project, also known as the RE Cinco project, supplies electricity and associated renewable energy credits (RECs) to […]

Sempra Energy’s Unit IEnova Awarded Its First Two Solar Energy Projects In Mexico

Sempra Energy recently announced that its Mexican subsidiary, Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova) (BMV: IENOVA), has been awarded two solar energy projects in a recent auction conducted by Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Control de Energía. The two projects will total 141 megawatts (MWac) of capacity with an expected investment of approximately $150 million. “We […]