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A new initiative in the US will take aim at the country’s US$1 per Watt soft costs for residential solar.

The fresh tariffs placed on Chinese solar inverters are unlikely to create major procurement challenges or have serious implications for those manufacturing in China.

Standard Solar is developing a 38MW community solar pipeline in New York through the acquisition of six projects from US Light Energy, formerly known as Solitude Solar.

Sol Systems and Nationwide Insurance’s Helios infrastructure joint-venture company has signed off on a deal to acquire a 135MW PV project portfolio in North Carolina. All of the installations were purchased from Cypress Creek Renewables.

Falling module prices in the US have triggered a pivot towards the use of higher efficiency modules in the country’s utility solar market, PV Tech has learned.

Inverter solution supplier Sungrow has supplied 80MW of PV inverters for the first utility-scale solar project in the state of Wyoming.

Global energy technology company Enphase Energy has signed off on a manufacturing agreement with Flex to include the company's facilities in Mexico.

Building Energy and Building Energy Holding US, through its renewable energy subsidiary Annapolis Solar Park, have inaugurated the largest PV project built on a landfill in the US.

Sweden’s first commercial wind power developer Eolus has entered the US solar-plus-storage market, announcing the acquisition of a mega-project currently in development.

California’s Governor Jerry Brown has passed the state’s 100% clean power target into law.