Grand Canyon West Microgrid Project

Grand Canyon West Microgrid Project Peach Springs, Ariz. | 884.5 kW solar + 2.14 MWh storage The 2023 Solar Builder Microgrid Project of the Year Award winner, as voted on by our readers, is the Grand Canyon West Solar + Storage system in Peach Springs, Ariz. This 884.5 kW fixed-tilt ground-mounted solar + 770 kW…

Arrow Canyon

Arrow Canyon Moapa, Nev. | 200 MW solar + 375 MWh storage The Solar Builder Utility-Scale Project of the Year Award winner, as voted on by our readers, is the Arrow Canyon Solar and Battery Energy Storage System. The Arrow Canyon project is a 200 MW solar array and 375 MWh battery energy storage system…

Seneca Nation Residential Solar Program

Seneca Nation Residential Solar Program Irving, N.Y. | 200+ kW The 2023 Residential Solar Project of the Year, as voted by the readers of Solar Builder, is the Seneca Nation Residential Solar Program in Irving, New York. The short story: The Seneca Nation received a grant to use toward renewable energy projects and contracted with…

MSD Wayne

MSD Wayne Indianapolis | 845 MW The 2023 C&I Ground-Mount Solar Project of the Year, as voted by the readers of Solar Builder, is the Metropolitan School District (MSD) of Wayne Township in Indianapolis, Ind. It’s a reminder that the best solar projects often involve much more than just plopping down some PV. But, let’s…

Badia Spices Warehouse

Badia Spices Warehouse Sweetwater, Fla. | 3.24 MW The 2023 C&I Rooftop Solar Project of the Year, as voted by the readers of Solar Builder, is the Badia Spices Warehouse in Sweetwater, Fla. Engineered and installed by SALT Energy, this self-financed solar project is the largest privately owned solar project in Florida as of August…

Editors’ Choice 2024

Editors’ Choice Awards Not everyone who submits a nomination for the Project of the Year Awards gets recognized. This year we saw close to 40 entries, among which we selected 24 across six categories for the online vote, leading to the six winners we just featured. So no, not everyone gets a trophy … but…

Editors Choice Awards

Editors Choice

Editor’s Choice Awards Not everyone who submits a project to the Project of the Year Awards gets recognized. This year we saw close to 50 entries, among which we selected 27 across six categories for the online vote, leading to the six winners we just featured. So no, not everyone gets a trophy … but…

Community solar HERO

Extra Space Storage | 500 kW

Extra Space Storage Neptune, N.J. | 500 kW (6.5 MW across 10 sites) Solar Landscape won the Project of the Year award for Community Solar last year as well, and that’s no fluke. Solar Landscape itself is a pre-eminent community solar installer, but some of those props are due in part to its state. New…

Mililani Solar 1 Plant

Mililani Solar I plant O‘ahu, Hawai‘i | 39 MW + 156 MWh The stakes were high for the Mililani Solar I plant: O‘ahu is the most populous Hawaiian  island, urgently needed an infusion of clean energy to replace power provided by a 180-MW coal plant (the last such plant on the island), which Hawaiian Electric…