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  • Students Build Cozy Vacation Cabins

    Not long ago, a team of architecture students from the Colorado Building Workshop built 14 cozy small cabins in Leadville, Colorado. The cabins were prefabricated, and will serve as dormitories of the Colorado Outward Bound School. The cabins are called Colorado Outward Bound Micro Cabins and were built on a rather steep hill in the…

  • NEXTracker opens project management, field operations office in Nashville

    NEXTracker is further expanding operations by opening a sales, project management and field operations office in Nashville, Tenn., to address growing regional demand for the company’s high-performance solar trackers. By placing key personnel and a warehouse in this additional location, NEXTracker is well-positioned to provide excellent, real-time customer service andRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Midwest utility builds out center for solar research, education and collaboration

    Midwest utility Alliant Energy announced the opening of its Madison Solar Demonstration Project — an initiative that will study different types of technologies in a Midwest climate to provide the utility with valuable insights into the best-suited solar technologies for the region. In collaboration with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI),Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar Frontier modules selected for variety of agricultural, residential projects in Mexico

    Solar modules from Solar Frontier Americas are going to be installed in a pipeline of residential, agri-business and agro-industrial solar power generation projects in and around Sonora, Mexico, by Enilso. The solar projects range from 5-10 kW residential projects to 200-500 kW agricultural installations and are scheduled to be installedRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Problem Solvers: Solar site issues solved by the right mounting solution

    ASSA ABLOY Location: Berlin, Conn. Size: 1.3 MW International door and hardware manufacturer ASSA ABLOY had been making significant strides in environmental stewardship and was ready for its own clean energy installation. But there was a problem — the selected site had difficult topography, with slopes as steep as 20Read More — Solar Builder magazine