Author: LEED Blogger
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Report: Rooftop solar provides even more value than retail rate metering
Net metering is often seen as a good deal for solar installers and their customers, but a negative for utilities and their customers — the non-solar taxpayers in the community. It is said that those others are subsidizing all the great benefits the solar adopters receive. Is it true? A reportRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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TimberRock explains 3 achievements of new energy storage platform REH-FLEX
TimberRock Energy Solutions, the R&D and product development subsidiary of TimberRock Advanced Energy, announced a new energy storage platform called REH-FLEX. Although solar panels, electric vehicles and battery storage are transforming the electrical grid into a bi-directional energy network, the inverters used to move energy in-between these resources and theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Eco-Friendly Modular Prefab Tiny Home
Prefab homebuilder GreenPod Development, based in Port Townsend, Washington, makes cozy tiny homes, which are factory made and can be constructed in just six weeks. One of these is their Waterhaus model, which would make a great vacation cabin, or even a full-time home. The home measures 450 sq ft, and is made from structural…
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Check out this livestream of a 2-MW Farmers Electric Cooperative solar install
Follow Farmers is the story of how Farmers Electric Cooperative in the small Iowa town of Kalona installed nearly 2 MW of solar. The entire construction of this historic solar array is currently streaming live at followfarmers.solar or just sit back and watch it above. Farmers Electric Cooperative partnered withRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Global microgrid lessons will be shared at upcoming New York conference
HOMER Energy will host its fourth annual Microgrid Conference at Columbia University in New York, Nov. 7-8 2016, drawing experienced microgrid developers from all over the world with the theme “Microgrids Lessons from Global Markets.” HOMER Energy founder and CEO Peter Lilienthal will elaborate on that theme as a keynoteRead More — Solar Builder magazine