- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that an elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has won the annual Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. Teams from more than 3,000 buildings across the country spent the past year competing to obtain the greatest reduction in energy use. Claiborne Elementary School won by cutting its energy use nearly in half.
- Locus Energy, a solar monitoring and analytics company, has announced that it has signed an agreement with Amicus Solar Cooperative to be its preferred vendor of solar monitoring hardware, software and solar data analytics.
- OneRoof Energy, Inc., has announced that Valerie Iwinski has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Operations. She will be charged with overseeing company operations, product development, logistics, customer service, and information technology (IT) systems.
- Victron Energy has announced the launch of EasySolar, an integrated, smart, total power solution. EasySolar combines an Ultra-fast BlueSolar charge controller (MPPT), an inverter/charger and AC distribution all in one enclosure.