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Practice safe installation techniques to prevent battery short circuits
Whether you are a veteran or installing your first battery-based system, it’s important to avoid taking shortcuts when installing batteries. There is a real danger in creating a short circuit by...
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77-kW Costa Rican solar installation to assist space exploration tech company
Costa Rican solar photovoltaic energy company Sibo Energy inaugurated along with Ad Astra Rocket Company a 77-kW project in Liberia, Costa Rica, built with 252 305-watt modules and Kaco new energy...
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Solect Energy announces expansion to Rhode Island
Solect Energy, the leading full-service commercial-scale solar company in Massachusetts, announced today that the company is expanding its business into the state of Rhode Island. Solect has operated...
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UpSolar Partners with Wunder Capital to provide customers with access to...
Wunder Capital, an online solar lending platform, and UpSolar America, a leading international developer, manufacturer, and distributor of PV modules, announced a partnership today that will bring...
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts solar industry dominance in six years
Ray Kurzweil Futurist Ray Kurzweil made a thought-provoking presentation at a recent trade show for medical device companies, MD&M, in Anaheim, California. At one point during his 45-minute talk he...
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Optimizing solar projects with NSY, LCOE and IRR metrics in mind, and how...
Article by Santanov Chaudhuri, chairman; Rudy Roy, president; and Jason Spokes, director of electrical engineering, HST Solar As a result of the ITC extension, a flurry of utility-scale solar...
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Mounting Systems supplies Sigma I Steel ground mounts for a 3-MW solar...
Mounting Systems is proud to announce the completion of a 3 MW solar system at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. Consumers Energy collaborated with electrical contractor, J Ranck Electric...
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New NEC 2017 brings clarity to solar PV labeling
By Todd Fries, marketing manager—identification systems, HellermannTyton As we move closer to September, the new NEC 2017 will be published and released, giving the industry a glimpse into many new...
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Net metering inaction stalls more than 500 solar projects in Massachusetts
Inaction on raising net metering caps and reforming the Commonwealth’s Solar Renewable Energy Credit (SREC) program has stopped construction of more than 500 solar projects valued at $617 million,...
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How to apply lean construction practices to optimize solar installation speed
The installation of solar mounting structures is a repetitive and time-sensitive process, making it a perfect setting for applying the principles of lean construction. Of course, some basic steps to...
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Fronius focuses on making energy systems more intelligent and efficient
Fronius is already planning for the Intersolar Europe trade show in June in Munich, which is often a foreshadowing of what’s the come at Intersolar North America in July. The company plans to present...
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Heyco offers solar components with 20-year warranty
Heyco offers a wide range of solar products including Heyco SunBundlers and HEYClip SunRunner CT Cable Tie Mounting Platforms. Heyco said its design and pricing are superior to the competition, and its...
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Allied Moulded Products expands line of polycarbonate solar enclosures
Allied Moulded Products, Inc., a leader in nonmetallic electrical boxes and enclosures, is expanding its POLYLINE AMP Series of polycarbonate enclosures. The POLYLINE AMP Series of injection-molded...
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sonnenBatterie to enter Australian market
Australian households looking to use renewable energy to power their homes will soon have the choice of Europe’s leading producer of smart lithium-ion battery storage systems, Germany’s sonnen....
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Vista Solar to install 305-kW expansion at California site
Walters and Wolf, a west-coast leader in premier cladding services, has elected to proceed with a 305 kilowatt expansion to their existing solar facilities at their Fremont location. Vista Solar...
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Puerto Rico’s largest PV plant powered by JinkoSolar
JinkoSolar Holding Co. will supply METKA-EGN USA with 57.65 MW of PV solar modules for the largest solar PV plant in Puerto Rico. JinkoSolar will deliver the 57.65 MW of PV solar modules for the...
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SunPower awarded almost 500 MW of solar in Mexico’s first electricity auction
SunPower Corp. announced that, under Mexico’s first electricity power auction, the company has been awarded power purchase agreements with CFE, Mexico’s state-owned electric utility, to deliver one...
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Three key points to consider in brownfield redevelopment for solar projects
A typical brownfield. As available greenfield sites suitable for solar are used or developed in other ways, renewable energy companies are looking to brownfields as alternative locations for...
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Under-the-radar U.S. panel manufacturers finding success in competitive market
Although the United States was listed as the world’s fifth-most attractive country for module manufacturing by GTM Research’s Global PV Manufacturing Attractiveness Index (PVMAX), there aren’t many...
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OutBack power showcases easy-to-install solar equipment during NABCEP
OutBack Power Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of advanced power electronics for solar energy, will participate in an energy storage panel on April 5 at 1:00 p.m. PT and will showcase its...
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