Southern Company today announced the acquisition of the company’s first solar installation in North Carolina — the 2.5-megawatt (MW) Granville Solar Facility — by subsidiary Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy. The project represents the partnership’s fourth joint solar acquisition. [...]
North Carolina-based Strata Solar and JinkoSolar announced the addition of a 6.4-MW solar farm to Robeson County. The Watts solar farm is shining addition to Strata Solar’s “southern cluster” of solar power farms in North Carolina. Robeson County is home [...]
IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today officially plugged-in the solar energy system installed at its distribution center near Savannah, Ga. — the state’s largest private solar rooftop array. The 182,300-square-foot PV array consists of a 1,458.2-kW system, built [...]
Georgia Power Company yesterday proposed an initiative to create one of the largest voluntarily-developed solar portfolios by an investor-owned utility in the United States. The Georgia Power Advanced Solar Initiative (GPASI) would add 210 MW of additional solar capacity to [...]
O2 Energies is developing a 28-acre solar farm not far from one of the world’s largest Campbell’s Soup factories. From the site, located behind D&I Trucking, Progress Solar III will send clean, sustainable energy to Progress Energy’s electrical grid, serving hundreds of businesses [...]
A new solar-energy system was mounted Sept. 4 on a rooftop at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota, Fla., which is launching its new Sustainable Energy Initiative this month, building upon two generous donations of solar panels from members of the [...]
REC Solar established itself among the top solar companies in Florida’s emerging solar market with work on five installations on IKEA and U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Medical Center locations totaling nearly 5 MW. With ample sunshine, high-energy usage, [...]
Canadian Solar Inc. and Mortenson Construction broke ground on a 2.5 MW PV solar installation in Laurinburg, N.C., an agricultural community in Scotland County. The solar project is set to be completed in December 2012. Canadian Solar, the project owner is [...]
Mooresville, N.C. — a center for alternative energy? That’s the vision of Michael Bay. The innovator who bought and transformed three former mills into huge furniture retailing complexes has announced that his Merinos Home Furnishings in Mooresville will host a [...]
Preformed Line Products Company recently expanded its global renewable energy power generation by adding a PV solar array at its manufacturing facility located in Albemarle, N.C. The new 50-kW grid-tied photovoltaic system is divided into multiple arrays positioned on the [...]
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