Trump’s Tariff Prompts Losses, Scramble in the American Solar Industry
President Trump’s 30% import tariff on solar panels manufactured overseas are having negative effects on the American solar industry, particularly for installations.
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Texas Retailer Offers Instant Rebate for Rooftop Solar, Offers High Credits for Excess Solar
Competitive retail provider TXU Energy announced on September 29 the offer of a limited-time instant rebate for residential consumers who purchase SunPower rooftop solar systems through the company.
SunPower Solar Technology Breaks 24% Energy Efficiency Mark
SunPower has achieved a record for its X-Series solar panel technology, the company said.
Will Clean-Energy Desalination Be a Game-Changing Water Fix?
Desalination is typically an energy-intensive — and thus expensive — way to produce freshwater, which is one of the reason it has been slow to take off as a widespread solution to water shortages. This is what makes renewable energy-powered desalination so desirable, and will play a key role in ... Read more »
SunPower Unveils Helix Solar Platform
SunPower has launched the Helix platform, a fully-integrated commercial solar platform that combines solar power product and energy management, the company says. The company says that the unit’s solar panels produce 60 percent more energy compared to conventional panels when measured over a 25 year period. In addition, the company ... Read more »
Reforming the Energy Vision Unveils 7 Projects
The New York State Department of Public Service announced the first seven Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) demonstration projects. While the traditional utility business model is based on spending electric consumer dollars and earning a regulated rate of return, these projects include private investment from third-party partners and are intended ... Read more »
Future Is Bright for Solar at Stanford
Stanford University has partnered with SunPower to install a 5,500 kW rooftop solar PV system and build a 68,000 kW off-campus solar energy plant. By 2017, solar panels will make up half of the university’s electricity supply. The project is a part of the Stanford Energy Systems Innovations (SESI) project, ... Read more »
Apple Builds 40 MW Solar in China
Apple launched its first major solar project in China, and the solar installations in Sichuan Province will generate more energy than needed to power all of Apple’s 19 corporate offices and 22 retail stores in the country. Apple is partnering with Leshan Electric Power, Sichuan Development Holding, Tianjin Tsinlien Investment ... Read more »
New Energy System Will Save Stanford $420M
Stanford University is building a new energy system that incorporates solar power with heat recovery. The new system, called the Stanford Energy System Innovations (SESI), will save the university $420 million in energy costs over 35 years, making Stanford one of the most energy-efficient research universities in the world. The university ... Read more »
Solar Array Generates 15% of Campbell Bakery Energy Needs
Campbell Soup Company says a 1 MW solar array at its Pepperidge Farm bakery in Bloomfield, Connecticut, is generating the equivalent of 15 percent of the bakery’s annual energy demand since the array began operating on Dec. 26, 2014. The ground-mounted, fixed-tilt array comprises 2,720 SunPower solar panels and sits ... Read more »
EnerNOC, SunPower Cross Market to Commercial Customers
SunPower entered a three-year partnership agreement with EnerNOC. SunPower will exclusively offer EnerNOC’s energy intelligence software to its commercial and industrial solar customers in the US and Canada. EnerNOC will exclusively offer SunPower solar solutions to its enterprise customers. As part of the agreement, SunPower will start deploying EnerNOC’s software-as-a-service ... Read more »
Renault Test Truck Cuts Fuel Consumption 22%
Following several months of road trials and test bench programs adding up to the equivalent of 20,000 km, the Renault Trucks laboratory vehicle, called Optifuel Lab 2, has recorded fuel consumption 22 percent lower than that of a production Renault Trucks T. The company says this means 7.2 L of ... Read more »