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Classes Begin at New Green Job Training Center in Chicago
Chicago’s new Sustainability Hub will train and employ 10,000+ local Illinois residents for solar careers. Participants complete harness training to install solar panels at heights. Chicago, IL (May 2, 2023) — The Sustainability Hub, a new Chicago job training center jointly developed by Power52’s Ecademy and 548 Enterprise (548), has proudly welcomed the first twenty trainees to […]
Summit Ridge Energy and Qcells Announce Largest Community Solar Partnership in the U.S.
Adam Kuehne, Brian Dunn, HG Park, Steve Raeder, Justin Lee, Chris An, Sungbong Nam The 1.2 GW announcement marks the biggest domestic community solar purchase in history, the agreement also includes 20 MWh of energy storage Vice President Kamala Harris visited Qcells Dalton Factory to announce this historic order made possible in part because of […]
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PV Tech: Summit Ridge Energy, Osaka Gas expand solar PV partnership with 100MW pipeline in Virginia
A rooftop community solar project from Summit Ridge in Maryland. Image: Summit Ridge Energy US community solar owner-operator Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) and Japanese energy firm Osaka Gas USA (OGUSA) have expanded their partnership to construct, own and operate more than 100MW of solar PV in Virginia, the US. The joint venture represents a nine-figure […]
Reuters: FEATURE-US cities risk losing out on clean-energy incentives, jobs
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a church on Chicago’s West Side near where he grew up, Marques Jones Jr. is hoping to earn more money and help his family by learning how to install and maintain the solar panels he now sees everywhere he goes. Jones is midway through an inaugural 11-week […]
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