Author: LEED Blogger

  • Meet Princeton Power’s new Energy Storage IQ system (big for microgrids)

    Princeton Power Systems announced the launch of its Energy Storage IQ (ESIQ) technology platform at Intersolar. The ESIQ platform, implemented by Princeton Power’s experienced team of energy storage experts, streamlines the delivery of turnkey energy storage systems, microgrid operations and electric vehicle charging solutions to customers and partners worldwide. TheRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • San Francisco Restaurant is Sustainable to the Core

    The Perennial, a restaurant that recently opened in San Francisco, truly is sustainable through and through. It’s the brainchild of husband and wife Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz and boast of it’s own aquaponic greenhouse, uses only responsibly-reared meat, and was decorated using recycled materials. The latter is only the tip of the iceberg as…

  • Woman Converts Van Into an Awesome Solar Powered Home

    When seeking a mobile home, converting a van into one makes a lot of sense. And that’s exactly what Christine On thought. She completed the entire conversion by herself and it took her 32 months, but the end result is a cozy mobile home, which is exactly how she wanted it. She used a 2004…

  • TerraSmart expansion: New manufacturing facility, team members

    TerraSmart, a leading turnkey mounting solutions company in the solar industry, has grown more than 200 percent in the past two years — and the astounding growth shows no signs of slowing. The company projects even more record growth in 2016, thanks to ever-increasing trust in its solutions and continualRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Roses Inspire a More Efficient Solar Cell

    Breakthroughs big and small are important in the quest towards greater reliance on renewable power, of which solar power is at the top of the list. And one such breakthrough was recently achieved by a team of scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg…