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What’s the right amount of flashing to use for waterproof solar installs?
Generations of builders have installed asphalt shingle roofing on homes with chimneys, side walls and other structures that introduce a vertical surface above the roof line. To preserve the integrity...
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POWERSTATION offers alternative storage solution to Tesla Powerwall
Its manufacturers say the POWERSTATION, available now, is the first storage solution on the market that’s fully integrated and UL certified with all components produced by one company. The solution is...
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6 tools turning website visitors into solar customers
An online presence is crucial to business success in the 21st century—especially in the booming field of solar power. But to make sure your solar website produces real results, you have to include the...
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Why microinverters are a safer design for solar
By: Christopher Barrett, APsystems Solar power is gaining a coalition of fans, their numbers growing as PV spreads around the globe. But many emergency responders aren’t yet sold, and understandably...
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Ginlong Solis inverters compatible with Tigo smart modules
Ginlong, a global leading string inverter manufacturer, announced that its Solis string inverter products are now compatible with smart module platforms from Tigo Energy, a smart module market leader....
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How to get the most ROI out of your solar+storage system
Designing and justifying the cost of a solar array with battery storage can be challenging. Here are three steps to consider when designing a solar+storage system to ensure the most ROI. Step 1: Choose...
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Vista Solar installs 1.4 MW for Classic Salads
Vista Solar announces the completion of a 1.1-MW solar solution for Classic Salads in Watsonville, California. The solar solution at Classic Salads is one the largest ground-mount system in Monterey...
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Rapid brewery openings are an opportunity for solar development
Beer at one of Maine’ s top breweries just got a little sweeter thanks to two solar trackers and a rooftop array now powering the brewery and tasting room for The Maine Beer Company, in Freeport,...
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Solar FlexRack announces first installation of its new ballasted ground-mount
Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in photovoltaic mounting solutions, announced today the installation of the first solar power generation system which...
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PVWatts can be used to model power optimizers
PVWatts is an online simplified modeling tool to calculate PV system performance based on the array’s geographic location, orientation and other inputs. While the default settings for PVWatts are...
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140-year-old horse track installs solar on stable roofs
The board of directors for the Dresden Raceway may have won big. The historic Dresden Raceway, which has enjoyed great popularity among Ontarians since its beginnings back in the late 1880s, had been...
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Cypress Creek Renewables signs 150-MW module agreement with Solar Frontier
Solar Frontier, the world’s largest CIS solar energy solutions provider, announced it has entered into a 150-MW module supply agreement with Cypress Creek Renewables (CCR), a leading solar company...
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12-MW solar ground-mount now Arkansas’s largest
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc., Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC) and Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corporation (OECC) will announce the full...
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With ITC extension, solar tracker companies express pleasant surprise and...
Photo: Sun Action Trackers The biggest boom and bust story of 2016 won’t happen, thanks to the extension of the solar federal investment tax credit. And if there is one sector in solar counting its...
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EnTech convergence: The next era in mounting system evolution
By Kate Trono, vice president of products, SunLink EnTech convergence is driving mounting systems to integrate business intelligence technologies that continuously improve project performance, such as...
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Why brownfields need an online marketplace for solar redevelopment
The landscape is dotted with the remains of bygone developments—places where factories churned out products and ships docked to receive them, for instance—which today are often considered brownfields....
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Alectris and Next Energy form Asia solar market joint venture
Atsushi Ito, CEO Next Energy Resources (Left) with Vassilis Papaeconomou, Managing Director, Alectris (Right) at signing ceremony for Alectris Japan Ltd. Alectris, a global solar asset care innovation...
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Yaskawa – Solectria Solar inverters power 1-MW Goodyear Rubber manufacturing...
Yaskawa – Solectria Solar, the leading U.S. commercial PV inverter manufacturer, announced today that its three-phase, transformerless PVI 28TL inverters were installed at the Goodyear Rubber...
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Detroit to develop solar project on 10-acre vacant property
DTE Energy received approval from the Detroit City Council today to develop one of the largest urban solar power arrays in the country on a 10-acre vacant parcel of land in Detroit at the former O’Shea...
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Conergy completes 201-MW solar pipeline in the Philippines
Conergy disclosed in 2015 that it had won 201 MWp of solar projects in the Philippines. Conergy is now proud to announce the culmination of these projects in various parts of the country, all 201 MWp...
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