Enphase Energy Signs Supply Agreement With PetersenDean
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PetersenDean Roofing & Solar has signed a supply agreement with Enphase Energy under which PetersenDean will specify Enphase micro-inverters in its residential and commercial installations.The deal furthers PetersenDean's Solar4America initiative to specify U.S.-source solar products in its projects. The Enphase systems used will come from its contract partner's assembly facility in Milpitas, Calif.
The goal is for all PetersenDean solar installations to includes panels, inverters and racking that comply with the Buy American provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The company has an existing agreement with SolarWorld for solar panels."We made a decision at PetersenDean to only source products made or assembled in North America," says Jim Petersen, founder of PetersenDean. "Once Enphase opened an assembly line here, we made the decision to source supplies through them so we can continue to deliver products made or assembled here to our customers."
The board of directors at EnerWorks, a solar thermal technology provider, has agreed to sell 100% of EnerWorks' shares to Proterra Solar, a solar thermal firm based in Woodstock, Ontario.Finalizing the deal is subject to due diligence and other typical closing matters. Proterra Solar is part of a group of companies that includes Trigon, a construction management firm that has expertise in the solar field.Proterra Solar has already established itself in the solar thermal industry as a distributor and consultant for evacuated-tube solar thermal systems, including Canada's largest solar cooling project at Oxford Gardens, the companies note. The bringing together of EnerWorks' flat-plate technology with Proterra Solar’s evacuated-tube solar thermal products is intended to allow the companies to offer the best product for each application. The deal is targeted to close on or before March 31. The new company will operate under the EnerWorks name and will be based in Woodstock, Ontario.
The Hertz Corporation has launched a solar initiative, the first phase of which will entail the installation of 2.3 MW of solar PV systems at 16 locations across the U.S.Hertz has already completed the construction of a 235 kW solar electric system located at Denver International Airport. The company says that by the third quarter of this year, it will have completed the construction of 15 additional facilities across the U.S. in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.Companies participating in the Hertz solar program include Martifer Solar, which is scheduled to engineer, procure and install 14 of the solar systems, and Samba Energy, which will provide its enterprise software platform - Samba SunSpotter - for solar and investment analysis and project management of installation.For much more info:off grid system