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Empact updates IRA compliance software with new energy community bonus rules

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:58:13 +0000

Empact Technologies has released a software update that incorporates support for the latest Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) energy community bonus credit compliance management and reporting requirements. “The IRA provides an unprecedented opportunity for community and utility-scale developers, EPCs, and tax equity investors, but keeping up with the evolving guidance and managing project tax compliance is…

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Arizona electric co-op taps Stem software to manage new energy storage system

Kelsey Misbrener — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:25:10 +0000

Stem and Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO), in partnership with Prometheus Power, announced the successful deployment of a co-located storage and solar project to help deliver clean, reliable power to its distribution co-ops and public power members. The project for Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Co-op (SSVEC), an AEPCO member co-op, includes a 40-MWh energy storage…

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Aurora adds whole-home electrification tools to sales platform

Kelly Pickerel — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:59:03 +0000

Solar sales and design platform Aurora Solar is expanding into whole-home electrification and energy needs. Aurora’s new tools can aid with energy optimization, storage retrofit proposals and storage modeling. According to Aurora Solar’s “2024 Solar Industry Snapshot,” 10% of homeowners want to electrify their home before considering solar and 37% feel solar panels are more valuable…

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PakEnergy bringing solar project management software to RE+ Texas

Kelsey Misbrener — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:16:05 +0000

PakEnergy is addressing the unique needs of renewable energy professionals with a solution designed to tackle complex land, project and asset management challenges. PakEnergy Renewables is a purpose-built system with targeted features and capabilities directly applicable to renewable energy project management, allowing solar, wind, geothermal and carbon capture project developers to seamlessly manage growing portfolios…

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Aurora Solar releases latest Solar Industry Snapshot

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:25:55 +0000

Aurora Solar has released its second annual “Solar Industry Snapshot.” This report examines early 2024 U.S. residential solar trends through three unique data sources: Aurora’s solar projects database of more than nine million projects over the past two years; a survey of 1,000 U.S. homeowners about their solar adoption behaviors and motivations; and, a survey…

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Solar Spotlight: Simplifying and automating large-scale solar design

Billy Ludt — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:00:28 +0000

Utility-scale solar projects are consistently breaking capacity records annually, both in individual project size and overall countrywide output. The sheer scale of these acres and sometimes miles long arrays require an unprecedented amount of worktime to construct, and even before a pile is driven into the dirt, project engineers must spend time designing these systems.…

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Energy Toolbase platform adds solar + storage modeling to show utility bill savings

Kelly Pickerel — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:00:23 +0000

Energy Toolbase has added a new feature to its ETB Developer product to model savings from solar and storage projects. The ability to model grid services and utility bill savings empowers solar and storage projects to leverage a wide variety of value streams, enhancing overall project economics and reliability. This new feature builds upon Energy…

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Solar sales is bending, not breaking – but it needs a refresh

Carina Brockl, chief revenue officer, Aurora Solar — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:00:23 +0000

Last year, Aurora held its annual Empower event for solar professionals to network and hear from industry leaders. One of the sessions, the Solar Sales Objections Throwdown, looked at common roadblocks for residential solar salespeople and how to overcome them. The Throwdown does a good job of looking at specific homeowner objections, so let’s look…

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Solar installers can get their own apps with Sunvoy white-label option

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:56:13 +0000

Sunvoy has launched white-labeled native apps in the Google and Apple app stores, allowing any solar installer to have its own branded app. Traditionally, solar installers have not had an app to provide their customers where customers could track their project and see their energy data in a single place. With more equipment being installed…

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Installation tips: Scanifly touts the benefits of drones and aerial imagery

SPW — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:00:41 +0000

For insight into the “installation aid” segment, SPW talked with Brad Knudsen, product marketing manager at Scanifly, about how drones and advanced aerial imagery have transformed residential solar design and installation. How does using drones and aerial imagery help solar contractors in eventual hands-on installation? Using photogrammetry-derived measurements from geotagged drone data ensures that final…

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Global solar report finds billions in revenue loss due to underperformance

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:16:41 +0000

Raptor Maps just released the sixth edition of its “Global Solar Report,” which features data that starkly showcases the underperformance of solar assets. The report finds that global revenue loss due to equipment-driven underperformance last year reached $4.6 billion, and that power loss due to equipment anomalies on solar farms rose from 3.13% to 4.47%…

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Enact announces partner program for solar project design and operations

Billy Ludt — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:00:19 +0000

Enact Solar, a digital platform for planning, implementing and overseeing solar and energy storage projects, has launched its Insider Partner Program. The goal of the program is to streamline and simplify its partners’ solar and storage businesses by providing signed solar projects while using Enact’s cloud software platform. “Our newly launched Insider Partner Program is…

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Aurora Solar platform adopts EagleView aerial imaging

Billy Ludt — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:48:59 +0000

Aurora Solar, a platform for solar sales and design, and EagleView, a provider of aerial imagery, geospatial software and analytics have formed a technology-first partnership. This integration will let solar professionals prospect, plan and validate solar projects with using EagleView’s high-resolution aerial imagery, validated 3D roof models and structure measurements to provide an additional layer…

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Anza procurement platform can sort available solar products by supply chain availability, more

Kelly Pickerel — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:00:29 +0000

Solar and storage procurement platform Anza now has expanded capabilities that give buyers the ability to instantly organize and rank every technical, commercial, supply chain and risk-related aspect of equipment required to select the ideal modules for solar projects. Anza’s offering will introduce a new era of confidence and efficiency for developers, IPPs and EPCs…

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Fronius offers free tool to find replacement inverters for repowering situations

Kelly Pickerel — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:01:47 +0000

Fronius just released a new tool that enables solar installers to offer customers repowering options, regardless of the inverter brand used in the original solar system. Repowering is usually a performance-related replacement of inverters that are out of warranty, but may also occur if an older inverter model is no longer available or spare parts do…

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