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  • Solar Roof Tiles as Imagined by Tesla

    Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and SolarCity chairman recently unveiled a new type of roofing tiles, which are also solar panels. It’s no secret that the Tesla company is rapidly developing new ways of establishing a more sustainable future, and these roofing tiles are a great idea. They would be used to cover a roof just…

  • Construction of largest Massachusetts solar rooftop install underway

    Green Street Solar Power, a solar sales, finance and installation company located in the Bronx, NY, has begun construction on a 4.1-megawatt high efficiency PV system in West Bridgewater – the largest single rooftop installation in Massachusetts. The system will be used to offset the electric bills for the entireRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Alencon Systems debuting new version of its DC-DC optimizer

    Alencon Systems LLC will showcase its newest generation of its DC-DC optimizer at the PV Operations & Maintenance USA conference Dec. 6 and 7 in San Francisco. Alencon’s String Power Optimizer, the SPOT, is a powerful and versatile DC-DC optimizer for large commercial and utility scale applications. The latest version ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Panasonic, Younicos working on solar+storage project in Denver

    Energy storage company Younicos has signed an agreement with strategic partner Panasonic to design and build a solar-plus-storage system at Peña Station NEXT in Denver, Colo., which includes the operations hub for Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company and Panasonic CityNOW. The system will make use of multiple Younicos Y.Cubes, the innovativeRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Details on the world’s largest microgrid install, via Sungrow

    Sungrow says that it has help install the world’s largest PV & energy storage microgrid power plant with 13 MW of PV inverters and 7 MW of energy storage inverters, in Shuanghu, China, the highest region in the world located in China’s Tibet province. The 20 MW microgrid power plantRead More — Solar Builder magazine