Kelly Pickerel
@SolarKellyP
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Solar reporter for over a decade. Editor in Chief of @SolarPowerWorld. I focus on solar panel manufacturing, energy storage systems and U.S. installers.
Cleveland, Ohio
Joined March 2011
This account is now only for the best AI images I can generate.
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Toyo Solar, the Japanese company affiliated with VSUN (Vietnam Sunergy), the Viet-manuf location once for China's Sunergy, says it is moving forward with a 2-GW solar panel assembly plant somewhere in the USA. I'm always deep in the weeds.
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RT @SolarPowerWorld: Submissions for our inaugural Top Products contest are now being accepted online! This competition will be judged by i….
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It's out! The 2024 Top Solar Contractors List is now on our website. We have a new No. 1!
solarpowerworldonline.com
The United States installed more solar in 2023 than ever before — 32.4 GW total and 51% more than the previous year. That significant expansion of the
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Didn't even have this anywhere near my 2024 solar bingo card. Thin-film manufacturer First Solar has crystalline silicon patents and will investigate TOPCon patent infringement.
solarpowerworldonline.com
First Solar, a thin-film solar manufacturer, is starting a patent infringement investigation based on tunnel-oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) technology
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I have no concept of what is real money anymore.
Quanta Services pays $1.5 billion to acquire Cupertino Electric
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"manufacturer" might be too strong of a word here.
Troubled thin-film solar panel manufacturer Toledo Solar ceases operations
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Interesting. LG is pausing construction in Arizona on its battery plant for ESS, but is continuing construction on its battery plant for EV.
utilitydive.com
The firm said it's adjusting the pace of its investments but remains confident the facility will play an important role in its operations.
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RT @SolarKelseyM: We're now accepting applications for our new Top Products contest. Check out the details here ⤵️
solarpowerworldonline.com
Solar Power World, the premier media outlet for the U.S. solar market and publisher of the annual Top Solar Contractors List, is proud to unveil a new
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I have another in-the-weeds question, possibly: I was once told that ingot pulling is temperamental and you want to do it in an area with few major vibrations. Isn't being next door to an international airport kind of against this logic?.
Waiting for the official word on this, and now we have it: NorSun will make silicon ingots and wafers at new 5-GW factory in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Waiting for the official word on this, and now we have it: NorSun will make silicon ingots and wafers at new 5-GW factory in Tulsa, Oklahoma
solarpowerworldonline.com
Norwegian silicon wafer manufacturer NorSun announced it will build a new 5-GW silicon ingot and wafer manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The
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Solar panel production begins at Meyer Burger plant in Arizona
solarpowerworldonline.com
Swiss solar technology pioneer Meyer Burger has started solar module assembly production at its new plant in Goodyear, Arizona. A factory audit was
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Hey. When animals are used for vegetation management on solar projects, is that considered "agrivoltaics" ??. I'm so deep into the weeds on this, I need help.
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Ope.
In today’s @latimes: My column calling out Gavin Newsom for flying to the Vatican to talk about being a climate champion and then flying home to gut community solar incentives. Can’t put climate first only some of the time. It has to be our defining lens:
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I kind of get into the weeds on solar panel stats, so here are the important bits (to me) of the news that LONGi launched a module with new M11 wafer size: the new wafer is rectangular and the panel is about four inches longer than the previous big boy
solarpowerworldonline.com
Solar panel company LONGi has launched its latest design, the Hi-Mo X6 Max series, which uses the industry-compromised new wafer size of 182.2 × 191.6 mm
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What it's like to live in Ohio. 🙃
dispatch.com
Mark Forrest had a choice: Save his political career or support a solar power project that he saw as an economic bonanza for his county.
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New domestic content bonus info revealed today
solarpowerworldonline.com
Today the Dept. of the Treasury has released long-awaited further guidance concerning the domestic content bonus within the Inflation Reduction Act. Solar
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Big tariff news week, more coming. Bifacial solar panels are no longer exempt from Sec. 201 tariffs
solarpowerworldonline.com
The Biden Administration today put imported bifacial solar panels back under Sec. 201 tariffs, after the specialty solar panels enjoyed a two-year
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#BREAKING .AD/CVD Round 2: Southeast Asian solar panel players will again be investigated for unfair practices.
solarpowerworldonline.com
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) and the Dept. of Commerce today announced they will investigate claims made by the American Alliance for
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Bigger Sec 301 tariffs on Chinese solar panels and other solar/storage/EV-related products, but solar panel manufacturing equipment from China gets a pass.
Revised 301 tariffs hone in on Chinese solar products, with some exceptions
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