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Ambassador Energy’s Southern California sales team is adding personnel in response to solar repayment programs such as property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing.

The first phase of Catalina Solar, EDF Renewable Energy’s 143MWp solar plant in Kern County, California, is to begin operation in December.

Utility-scale PV inverter specialist Advanced Energy Industries (AE) has reported record sales of US$60.7 million in Q3 2012, fuelled by growing demand from the North American large-scale commercial and utility markets.

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has joined local and company representatives to inaugurate 44MW of Peruvian PV plants.

From the heart of its R&D centre in Rochester, New York, Natcore Technology scientists have developed what they call the “first black silicon solar cell”.

Officials from Colorado-based Abound Solar are facing a criminal investigation over possible fraud, it has emerged.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved two amended BrightSource contracts, totaling 1,300,000MWh annually, with Southern California Edison (SCE).

Every megawatt of new electrical generation capacity in the US in September came from solar or wind power, official figures reveal.

School officials from Caroline County, Maryland, USA, joined representatives from Washington Gas Energy Systems and Kenyon Energy to unveil plans for the largest public school affiliated solar project on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) and Also Energy have teamed up in order to bring PVEL customers the ability to access their systems’ testing data online. This will allow customers to track the performance and energy yield, as well as download historical data and generate performance plots, of their system in real time with AlsoEnergy’ s PowerTrack energy management software.