Author: LEED Blogger
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Sustainable Local Community Garden Architecture
A team of architecture students from the California State Polytechnic University have designed a sustainable community garden, which will be constructed using a combination of recycled shipping containers and rammed earth. It will also run entirely on solar power. They are currently raising funds through a KickStarter campaign to begin making this innovative plan a…
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SEPA comments on Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization funding
The solar industry is ready to expand at a ridiculous rate, but if the grid lags behind, progress will fall short of potential. Hopefully, the Department of Energy’s latest announcement of up to $220 million in new funding will keep grid modernization moving the right way. The funding is forRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Improving the National Electric Grid
New DOE projects to modernize, improve grid resiliency. More…
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Solar FlexRack appoints new CEO
The Board of Directors of Northern States Metals, a full service provider of custom-designed, engineered and extruded aluminum products and owner of Solar FlexRack, a ground mount solar racking system to the commercial and utility scale solar industry, appointed Jeff Gwinnell as the company’s new president and CEO. Gwinnell will alsoRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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New Mexico, Affordable Solar bring 24-MW of solar to replace coal-fired systems
Solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm Affordable Solar, has partnered with Array Technologies, Inc. (ATI) to bring clean solar energy to thousands of New Mexicans in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas. Industry pioneers Affordable Solar and ATI are both locally owned and operate out of Albuquerque. The SantaRead More — Solar Builder magazine