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Missouri Baseball Teams Go Solar

UPDATED APRIL 16 to reflect whose panels were used in the St. Louis project — SCHOTT Solar. Missouri’s two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams have recently scored renewable energy projects. Both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals have installed solar panels that were up and running when the 2012 season opened. At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, home of the 2011 World... Read More

Project Review: Stimulating Schools With Solar In California

  JMC Steel Group’s Atlas Tube division was able to work through PDM Steel to provide 1,200 tons of large-size HSS squares and rectangles to for use in the steel columns of the solar carports. By leveraging its resources and relationships, JMC Steel delivered the order on time, despite a tight schedule. –photo courtesy of SRVUSD Utilities are often school districts’ second... Read More

Guardian Delivers Mirrors For World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant

Guardian Industries announced that the company’s EcoGuard Solar Boost mirrors are being installed at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) in California’s Mojave Desert. The project, a partnership between NRG Solar (a subsidiary of NRG Energy), Google and BrightSource Energy, will nearly double the amount of solar thermal energy produced in the U.S. today.... Read More

Arizona Partners Will Build First-Ever Solar Facility On State Land

Arizona’s State Land Department and Arizona Public Service are working in coordination to build the first-ever solar project on Arizona State Trust lands. Nearly 400 acres in Yuma County will soon be home to the 35 MW APS Foothills Solar Plant. The cost to APS for a 35-year lease on the land is $10 million, which will go primarily to help fund Arizona public education. The unprecedented... Read More

Joule Energy Installs Large 28 KW Solar System on Its Warehouse

Joule Energy, an integrator of high-efficiency solar systems, is installing a large 28 KW solar system on its primary business location. The system illustrates the design of a working installation, serves as a training tool and significantly reduces the operating cost of Joule’s facilities. “As a solar contractor, the choice to put solar on our own roof was a no-brainer,”... Read More

SolFocus Builds First 50 MW Solar Power Plant in Baja California

SolFocus  joined with Mexican land and real estate developer Grupo Musa and U.S.-based energy developer Synergy Technologies LLC to announce the launch of a landmark solar power plant in Baja California near Tecate, Mexico. The project, planned as a 450 MW total capacity, will be built in 50 MW tranches, with construction on the first tranche starting in late 2012 and being operational... Read More

New Capital Area Food Bank to Power Up with Standard Solar

Standard Solar, a national company that does  full-service development, installation and financing of solar electric systems for residential, commercial, government and utility customers, announced it is developing a 241 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) system for the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB). The system, which will be installed on the new facility currently under construction in... Read More

First Solar Announces 20-MW Maryland Solar Project

First Solar announced its 100% stake in Maryland Solar, a 20 MW (AC) photovoltaic (PV) solar power project in Hagerstown, Md. The project, which has a contract to sell electricity and renewable energy credits to FirstEnergy Solutions, is expected to start construction in Q2 2012 and be completed in Q4 2012. It will use First Solar’s advanced thin-film PV modules to generate... Read More

First Solar to Build 26 Megawatt Avra Valley PV Solar Project for NRG

NRG Energy and First Solar announced an agreement for First Solar to construct 26 MW (AC) Avra Valley solar project near Tucson, Ariz. Electricity from the Avra Valley solar project will be sold to Tucson Electric Power under a 20-year power purchase agreement. The project will utilize First Solar’s advanced thin-film photovoltaic technology, mounted on the company’s... Read More

Solar Projects: KB Home Introduces Solar Power as Standard in Florida

KB Home announced that it will include solar power systems as a standard feature of its Built to Order homes in select communities in central Florida. The systems can help KB homeowners reduce their monthly energy bills by as much as 50% when compared to a typical resale home and lower their cost of homeownership for years to come. KB Home’s Fisher Plantation in Apopka will... Read More

Solar Industry Unites For Massachussets School Project

PowerPlay Solar Development, an integrated solar development and finance company based in Ridgefield, Conn., announced the commissioning and commencement of operation of the 2 MW, nine-acre photovoltaic solar plant developed by the company at Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. The project is currently the largest operating solar facility of its kind at any school or college in... Read More

GE To Supply Largest PV Installation In Midwest

GE  announced an agreement to supply 23 megawatts (MW) of advanced solar equipment to Invenergy. Invenergy will install the solar equipment at its Grand Ridge Solar project (“Grand Ridge Solar”), now under construction in Illinois. When completed in mid-2012, Grand Ridge Solar will be the largest solar farm in the Midwest. The Grand Ridge Solar site is located in La Salle County,... Read More

Indiana Company To Power Michigan Fairgrounds

Inovateus Solar LLC, a national solar power distributor and integrator, announced its partnership with the Berrien County Youth Fair Association for the solar power portion of the proposed net-zero energy design atop the 6.1-acre Expo Arena roof in Berrien Springs, Mich. Construction is expected to begin this March. The proposed $17 million Expo Arena at the Berrien County Youth... Read More

SunPower Corp. Partners For 1 MW Facility

Salt River Project (SRP), Arizona State University (ASU) and SunPower Corp. announced an agreement to build a 1-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant at ASU’s Polytechnic campus in Mesa, Ariz. The 1-megawatt facility will be the first commercial deployment of SunPower® C7 Tracker technology, a solar photovoltaic tracking system that concentrates the sun’s power seven... Read More

SPI Solar Lands New Jersey Contract

SPI Solar , a vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) solar developer and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services provider, announced today that it has been awarded an EPC contract by Seashore Solar Development, LLC, a New Jersey-based solar development company. As EPC contractor, SPI will design, engineer and construct an 11.3 megawatt fixed ground mount solar... Read More