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  • Trailer Based Tiny Home

    A British Columbia-based homebuilder Nelson Tiny Houses recently completed this unique 380-square-foot house. They used a fifth-wheel utility trailer as the base for it and created a comfortable and spacious dwelling. The home is called V House and it features a comfortable sitting area, kitchen, a bedroom, and a bathroom. There is also a wide…

  • Utility-scale solar is about to explode in Texas

    When Texans do something, as we know, they do it big. Kicking off the year with record growth across all solar sectors, Texas is on track to become the fastest-growing utility-scale solar market in the U.S. within the next five years, according to the recently released U.S. Solar Market Insight,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Stellar Solar offering $2.99 per watt residential deal

    Stellar Solar, one of California’s leading commercial and residential solar installers since 1998 is now offering residential solar at $2.99 per watt, their first move of several that will cut the cost of going solar by up to 30% in most cases and enable more homeowners than ever to powerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How California’s Rule 21 inverter requirements expand grid capacity, limit energy (revenue) generation

    A multi-year effort has been ongoing in California to update technical requirements for connecting Distributed Energy Resources (DER) to the grid, known as Rule 21. The experience of Germany was cited as one reason to take action. In Germany, significant grid destabilization problems arose when high penetration levels of solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunPower boasts new solar panel efficiency of 22.8 percent

    SunPower has again set a new solar power panel efficiency record, as validated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). After achieving 22.8 percent efficiency for its X-Series solar panel earlier this year, SunPower has reached 24.1 percent efficiency – surpassing the previous world record forRead More — Solar Builder magazine