Quick Mount PV, an American manufacturer of watertight solar roof mounting and racking systems, is doubling its manufacturing production. The company is adding a second shift for the first time at its Walnut Creek, California manufacturing facility — increasing the company’s annual production capacity to 1.2 GW, based on the average number of mounts that…
Solar Power World spoke with Carl Mansfield, VP of system solutions for NantEnergy, about the company’s attempt to take zinc-air batteries mainstream. NantEnergy, which acquired Sharp’s energy storage division and its lithium know-how last year, is improving a zinc-air/lithium hybrid storage system for the C&I and microgrid markets. Mansfield said that finding the perfect cost-effective,…
Contractors Corner: A1A Solar Contracting helps pencil-out system returns in Northern Florida
Contractors Corner: Green Street Solar has no shortage of work in the nation’s second smallest state
Contractors Corner: Rosendin celebrates 100 years of electrical contracting with big solar projects
Contractors Corner: Turnkey EPC Conti Solar expects this year to be huge for solar and storage
Contractors Corner: RPCS has mastered trackers in the mid-sized utility-scale market
Solar Speaks: Giving agency to installers with Nuance Energy Group
Contractors Corner: Green Solar Technologies has American solar pride
Community choice aggregation can accelerate local solar growth in cities and counties
Contractors Corner: Scenic Hill Solar wants to help corporations and municipalities meet solar goals
Contractors Corner: After four decades on the solarcoaster, Sun Light & Power is still down for the ride
Contractors Corner: Atlasta Solar Center marks 40 years as Colorado’s expert solar installer
Contractors Corner: Sun Valley Solar Solutions evolves with the times, embraces energy storage
How do you build a healthy solar business in a constantly changing market? Solar businesses have had to confront the effects of tariffs, changing incentives and many other new drivers of demand, which creates both opportunities and challenges for solar software. At the 2018 Solar Software Summit, MJ Shiao, formerly of Wood Mackenzie Power &…
What are high-efficiency solar panels?
How to plan ahead for U.S. solar panel recycling
How to start a solar panel manufacturing facility in the United States
What are the different types of solar software?
Dissecting the California mandate of solar on all new homes 
These days the American solar industry is highly competitive. Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables points to “intense competition” as one cause of rising customer acquisition costs since installers “spend more money to win a bid.” Addressing the competition is a necessary part of most solar sales conversations. However, talking about the sales competition in your…
The federal solar tax credit is an incentive that grants a credit worth 30% of the qualified costs associated with the installation of a PV solar system. The non-refundable credit is applied to your federal taxes and was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in order to spark interest in the…
