Tag: 30 Day Campaign to Attack the Solar Tariff

  • How a Virginia Tech researcher plans to use smart inverters to change the grid

    The U.S. power grid, after faithfully delivering electricity to our neighborhoods for generations, is facing significant changes to how it operates — thanks to solar installations, wind farms, new energy storage systems and electric vehicles. As utilities meet the challenges of incorporating distributed energy sources on the low- and medium-voltageRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Financial floodgate: This new exchange opens up a $5 billion C&I solar financing network

    The C&I solar stalemate — with massive development potential on one side, and available but complex financing on the other – might finally be ending thanks to a clearer path to action. That path is the first finance exchange platform for C&I solar, which will allow developers and installers toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Assess solar + storage’s value in terms of facility resilience

    The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) updated its publicly available online solar+storage optimization tool, REopt Lite, which can be used to determine the sizing of resilient power technologies designed to support critical services. Recent disasters in places such as Puerto Rico, where widespread outages contributed to devastating loss of life, underscore howRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Award-winning solar site idea: Reducing one pound of steel per foot length of every pile

    Subtract one pound of steel per foot length from every pile used to support a solar photovoltaic panel, and you may save millions of pounds — and a lot of money. The idea, which involves changing the way photovoltaic ground mount piles are designed, came from a partnership between HDRRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Upgrading C&I rooftop solar installations with spray polyurethane foam

    As we have continued our expansion in the commercial and industrial solar market (which includes commercial, industrial, municipal, university, school, cold storage, food-processing and hospital buildings), we’ve discovered something. If commercial building owners are not overly familiar with how solar arrays are installed, they have legitimate concerns about the potentialRead More — Solar Builder magazine