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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • UL Solutions adds Frequency Regulation Modeling to battery system design tool

    UL Solutions released the new 1.0 version of HOMER Front software, adding expanded performance and financial forecasting capabilities for designing complex utility-scale energy storage, solar, wind and hybrid systems. Battery energy storage system (BESS) stakeholders can model most electricity markets worldwide, including frequency regulation, capacity markets, real-time energy markets, and contractual power purchase agreements with……

  • Takeaways from NABCEP 2024 CE: Crucial code insight, solar installer ethics

    The NABCEP CE conference is the best annual info dump and networking event for solar nerds. Last week, I wandered around the 2024 edition in Raleigh, N.C., ingesting an overwhelming amount of code updates, product info, and coffee. Lots to relay from my notebook over the coming weeks and months in more depth, but here……

  • Milestone decision by Calif. regulators approves DER schedules to avoid interconnection upgrades

    The California Public Utilities Commission just issued a significant decision allowing renewable energy systems to be approved to interconnect to the electric grid using an energy export schedule (known as a Limited Generation Profile or LGP) that is designed to avoid grid impacts. This approach, which leverages California’s public grid data, can reduce the need……

  • Trojan Battery adds new AES AGM batteries

    Trojan Battery Co. continues to address the needs of the global battery market with the addition of two DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) German Industrial Standard-sized batteries to its Trojan AES family. The new batteries – TE35 and 5SHP – feature the inherent advantages of the Trojan AES AGM batteries, including up to 3x the……

  • Schneider Electric, Mainspring Energy promote new hybrid energy microgrid solutions

    At the annual CERAWeek Conference, Schneider Electric and Mainspring Energy announced that they are partnering to offer a new hybrid-energy technology that combines Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Microgrid Solution and turn-key design-build services with Mainspring’s Linear Generator. The combination provides power and fuel-flexibility as well as energy resiliency for commercial and industrial customers, such as data……