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  • Small House That is Huge on Sustainability

    One of the winners of this year’s American Institute of Architecture’s Small Project Practitioners Knowledge Community 8th annual Small Project Awards is Small House in an Olive Grove designed by Cooper Joseph Studio. The home is located in the Dry Creek Valley near Sonoma, California and functions almost completely off-the-grid. The house is a 3-storey,…

  • NRG Energy, Boeing Complete 6-MW Solar Project in California

    NRG Energy Inc. today introduced the NRG Community 1 Solar Generating Facility. Through an innovative, community focused program – among the first of its kind in the United States – the project was developed by Sol Orchard in collaboration with the Center for Energy Sustainability at San Diego State University’s (SDSU)Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • 1.85 GW of NEXTracker Solar Trackers to be Used in Future SunEdison Projects

    SunEdison today announced that it has awarded a master services agreement to NEXTracker Inc. for the purchase of up to 1.85 GW of trackers for the company’s ground-mounted projects worldwide over the next three years, tied to an aggressive cost reduction roadmap. “NEXTracker has developed a truly innovative tracker,” said AhmadRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Residential Energy Generation and Storage to Reach $71.6 Billion Annually by 2023

    Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are the most visible form of the broad disruption caused by distributed energy resources (DER). The growing affordability of DER technologies is altering utilities’ traditional relationship with residential customers by giving customers greater control of their energy consumption. According to a new report from Navigant Research, worldwide revenueRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Suniva Solar Modules Power Florida Water Treatment Plant

    Suniva Inc. today announced that it is powering Florida’s first-of-its-kind solar powered water treatment plant. The city of Coleman, Fla., together with engineering firm Mittauer and Associates, general contractor ECO-2000 Inc., solar installer JSG Solar, and module manufacturer Suniva will celebrate the commencement of its solar powered water treatment center withRead More — Solar Builder magazine