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  • EDF’s 6-MW Lancaster Solar Project Reaches Commercial Operation

    EDF Renewable Energy today announced that the 5.86-MW Lancaster Solar Project has reached commercial operation. EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) and Urban Green Technologies LLC (UGT), a utility-scale solar developer, signed the Membership Interest Purchase and Sale Agreement (MIPSA) in October 2013 and subsequently started the construction phase in December 2013.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Philips Introduces OneSpace Ceiling Lighting

    Philips has recently introduced OneSpace, which is basically a luminous ceiling that can be used to replace other lighting fixtures. According to the company, one of the main aims of designing OneSpace was to create a lighting fixture that could become a design element for architects to work with. In other words, using OneSpace lights…

  • enACT Systems Launches Mobile Software for Solar Sales

    Solar and energy efficiency installers and developers spend up to 30 percent of their revenue in sales and customer acquisition costs. To reduce transaction costs and connect providers to more customers, enACT Systems is launching from beta its new open-source software-as-a-service platform. The simplistic, yet robust, software platform integrates the entire salesRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • IKEA Completes Expansion on Maryland’s Largest Rooftop Solar Array

    IKEA today officially plugged-in an expansion of the solar array completed last April atop its Perryville, Maryland, distribution center, the state’s largest such solar energy system. Installation of the new panels began Fall 2013, and since then have nearly doubled the size of the original project, which already was theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Rethinking Microinverters

    APS America changes the game with microinverters that power multiple PV modules. The microinverter market is turning into a pretty competitive place. Enphase is a dominating force, and multi-megawatt inverter manufactures — like SMA America and Power-One (now doing business as ABB) — have recently launched their own mini converters.Read More — Solar Builder magazine