Across The Wire

  1. Planted Solar Secures $12M To Accelerate Solar Deployment 7/29/2025

    Planted Solar, the solar deployment platform helping project developers build faster, smarter, and more profitably, today announced a $12 million funding round anchored by Piva Capital, with participation from existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Team Builder Ventures.

  2. VDE Americas Verifies Successful Operation Of GameChange Solar's Genius Tracker™ HailStow™ 7/22/2025

    GameChange Solar (GCS) and VDE Americas, a global leader in technical advisory and catastrophic risk assessment services for the solar power industry, released a study on the use of GameChange Solar Genius Tracker'sTM hail mitigation function. 

  3. Bureau of Reclamation And HeroX Launch 'Seal Team Fix Challenge' To Safeguard Water And Power In The American West 7/22/2025

    HeroX, the leading platform and open marketplace for crowdsourced solutions, today announced the launch of the "Seal Team Fix Challenge" on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation, with support from the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL). 

  4. OPG And OSGE Strengthen Collaboration On Small Modular Reactors In Poland 7/21/2025

    Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) have signed a letter of intent (LOI) that paves the way for the Canadian company to provide pre-deployment, operations, maintenance, and other services to OSGE as Poland deploys small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs).

  5. JA Solar And Masdar Deepen Partnership With Landmark 1GW PV Projects In Azerbaijan 7/21/2025

    JA Solar, a global leader in the photovoltaic (PV) industry, was selected to supply one gigawatt (GW) of high-efficiency DeepBlue 4.0 Pro PV modules for the Banka and Bilasuvar solar power projects in Azerbaijan being developed by Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar, the UAE's clean energy leader.

  6. Primergy Announces The Commissioning Of Ash Creek Solar In Texas 7/17/2025

    Primergy Solar LLC ('Primergy') announced that the Ash Creek Solar project has reached commercial operation, located in Hill County, Texas.

  7. Geronimo Power Expands Portfolio In Wisconsin, Breaks Ground On 250-MW Portage Solar Project 7/15/2025

    Today, Geronimo Power (Geronimo) announced the start of onsite construction at its 250-megawatt (MW) Portage Solar (Portage) Project in Portage County, Wisconsin, within the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) market.

  8. OCI Energy LLC Announces Sale Of 120 MWac Project To Sabanci Renewables, Advancing Clean Power In Texas 7/15/2025

    OCI Energy and Sabanci Renewables are excited to announce the first collaboration between the companies whereby Sabanci has purchased Project Pepper from OCI Energy. 

  9. Trinasolar's Vertex Modules Revive The Gobi Desert, Expanding Clean Energy And Ecological Recovery 7/14/2025

    Amid the vast expanse of the Gobi Desert in Jinta, Gansu Province, rows of solar panels are transforming once-hostile sands into a thriving "blue ocean" of green energy, for which Trinasolar supplied 100MW of high-performance Vertex series modules to this project, helping drive both energy output and environmental renewal.

  10. The Festo North American Regional Service Center Embraces Clean Energy 7/11/2025

    Festo, a global leader in industrial automation controls and systems and industrial training systems, inaugurated today a rooftop solar power generating system, the largest of its kind in Mason, Ohio.