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  • A Home Made Out of Cardboard

    The Holland-based firm Fiction Factory have recently unveiled a modular home, which is built out of layered cardboard. While the latter is not quite the top choice of building material, the architects claim that the home will last for up to 100 years, which is quite a bold statement. The home is called Wikkelhouse (which…

  • Arcadia Power wants to deliver community solar subscriptions to anyone who wants one

    Arcadia Power, an online renewable energy company, says it is launching the first nationwide community solar platform that would give people around the country the opportunity to support solar energy and get savings on their bills – no matter where they live. Arcadia Power says its technology platform can connectRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • O&M news: MaxGen Energy Services acquires commercial services of Next Phase Solar from Enphase

    MaxGen Energy Services, an independent operations and maintenance (O&M) company in the U.S, serving a large fleet of distributed generation (DG) and utility-scale solar power plants, has acquired the commercial services unit of Next Phase Solar, a provider of solar O&M services to a wide range of owners, equipment manufacturers,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • FG Fortis Groep USA sets plans for new net-zero building projects

    The Fortis Groep is an international builder of sustainable and net zero building projects around the world and it has new sustainable and net-zero building project it is ready to debut world-wide. As of now, these net zero systems will be installed in residential building projects in Florida and NorthRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Researchers exceed the theoretical limit of silicon solar cells (hit 30.2 percent)

    So, get this: Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE together with the Austrian company EV Group (EVG) say they have successfully manufactured a silicon-based multi-junction solar cell with two contacts and an efficiency exceeding the theoretical limit of silicon solar cells. Tell me more! For thisRead More — Solar Builder magazine