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Solar Distancing, ep. 5: Basics of battery recycling

Eric Hill, energy storage and systems manager at Outback Power, joins us again to discuss what to do with batteries when they have reached end of life. Can you recycle them? Which kinds? And how do...

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Details on three Inovateus Solar projects completed with zero construction...

Inovateus NIPSCO Valparaiso project. Inovateus Solar has completed three solar projects for Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), which are the utility’s first solar installations....

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Power, plants: Seed mixes and ag innovation for PV solar

ENGIE project in Vermont. Photo courtesy of Fresh Energy. Driven by rapidly declining costs and 100 percent clean energy commitments from corporations and municipalities, demand for large-scale solar...

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Logansport Municipal Utility to replace 120-year-old coal plant with this...

Inovateus Solar is developing a landmark solar project for the people of Logansport, Indiana. For over 120 years, the city has relied on a Logansport Municipal Utility (LMU) coal-fired power plant...

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NREL research examines strategies for recycling solar panels

PV modules have a 30-year lifespan. There is currently no plan for how to manage this at end of their lifespan. The volume of modules no longer needed could total 80 million metric tons by 2050. In...

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Alliance forms to promote ‘low-carbon’ solar PV module production

So, this is interesting: Some solar industry manufacturers teamed up to form a new alliance to promote the deployment of ultra low-carbon solar energy. The Ultra Low-Carbon Solar Alliance, including...

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This co-located solar array serving two Arkansas school districts is also...

Arkansas Schools partner with Entegrity on solar project, use sheep to maintain fields Cedar Ridge Schools and Midland School District teamed up to improve their districts with a new solar facility....

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NexWafe raises $12 million to scale up highly efficient, greener...

Pioneers of in-line epitaxy for production of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon wafers, NexWafe GmbH completed of a $12 million USD capital raise to scale up its EpiWafers, which they say...

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Pine Gate Renewables to plant two trees for every one removed during...

Pine Gate Renewables and the Arbor Day Foundation announce a new partnership to replant trees impacted as a result of project development. Starting in 2021, Pine Gate will plant two trees for every...

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This agrivoltaics solar project from Namasté Solar, Solar FlexRack is packed...

Byron Kominek, owner of Jack’s Solar Garden in Longmont, Colo., drives a tractor away following a kickoff event for the farm. Photo by Werner Slocum / NREL Jack’s Solar Garden is a 1.2 MW solar farm...

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BlueWave Solar sells agrivoltaic solar project in Maine to Navisun

BlueWave Solar, a Boston-based solar developer and community solar service provider, announced the sale of a 4.2 MW, 10 acre agrivoltaic solar project on a wild (lowbush) blueberry farm in Rockport,...

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Start the (re)cycle: Zero-waste solar construction and end-of-life plans

Solar projects aren’t inherently homeruns for the environment in terms of waste. Jobsites are packed with product packaging and leftover material, and, of course, decommissioned panels loom as a...

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Solar Distancing, ep. 5: Basics of battery recycling

Eric Hill, energy storage and systems manager at Outback Power, joins us again to discuss what to do with batteries when they have reached end of life. Can you recycle them? Which kinds? And how do...

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Details on three Inovateus Solar projects completed with zero construction...

Inovateus NIPSCO Valparaiso project. Inovateus Solar has completed three solar projects for Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), which are the utility’s first solar installations....

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Power, plants: Seed mixes and ag innovation for PV solar

ENGIE project in Vermont. Photo courtesy of Fresh Energy. Driven by rapidly declining costs and 100 percent clean energy commitments from corporations and municipalities, demand for large-scale solar...

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Logansport Municipal Utility to replace 120-year-old coal plant with this...

Inovateus Solar is developing a landmark solar project for the people of Logansport, Indiana. For over 120 years, the city has relied on a Logansport Municipal Utility (LMU) coal-fired power plant...

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NREL research examines strategies for recycling solar panels

PV modules have a 30-year lifespan. There is currently no plan for how to manage this at end of their lifespan. The volume of modules no longer needed could total 80 million metric tons by 2050. In...

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Alliance forms to promote ‘low-carbon’ solar PV module production

So, this is interesting: Some solar industry manufacturers teamed up to form a new alliance to promote the deployment of ultra low-carbon solar energy. The Ultra Low-Carbon Solar Alliance, including...

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This co-located solar array serving two Arkansas school districts is also...

Arkansas Schools partner with Entegrity on solar project, use sheep to maintain fields Cedar Ridge Schools and Midland School District teamed up to improve their districts with a new solar facility....

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NexWafe raises $12 million to scale up highly efficient, greener...

Pioneers of in-line epitaxy for production of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon wafers, NexWafe GmbH completed of a $12 million USD capital raise to scale up its EpiWafers, which they say...

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