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  • FranklinWH ESS approved for fast-tracked permitting in Honolulu

    FranklinWH has received the Materials and Methods (M&M) Certification from the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP). Solar energy storage system (ESS) installers on the island of Oahu can now reference the Franklin Home Power M&M Certification to fast-track the standard residential permitting process and generally avoid annoying permitting delays….…

  • Google Nest, General Motors headline RMI’s Virtual Power Plant Partnership

    Virtual power plants (VPP) are an intriguing path to a more efficient and cost-effective electric grid. VPPs involve the aggregation and coordination of distributed energy resources (like homes with solar + battery storage or smart thermostats or even EVs) to work together as an asset on the grid. Customers themselves or their authorized energy management……

  • Fronius Symo Advanced inverters now UL 3741 certified with PanelClaw, IronRidge

    The Fronius Symo Advanced inverters are UL 3741* certified for use with two racking manufacturers, IronRidge BX and PanelClawFR. UL 3741 is a path to comply with the NEC 690.12 rapid shutdown inside the array boundary requirement without adding module-level shutdown equipment. With this certification, module level rapid shutdown devices are no longer required on……

  • SolarReviews renews SEI partnership to support U.S.-based Spanish speakers in solar

    SolarReviews and Solar Energy International (SEI) renewed their awesome partnership for 2023. In 2022, SolarReviews successfully funded the SolarReviews Scholarship, which provided solar training for U.S.-based Spanish Speakers. 2023 will see an expansion of this scholarship to support native Spanish speakers through SEI’s Hispanic and Latin American program with scholarships and program management support, along……

  • Trina Solar starts 2023 with production of i-TOPCon cells for Vertex N modules

    P-type PERC solar cells are nearing their efficiency limits, which means production of n-type cells is stepping up across the industry. As 2022 drew to a close, Trina Solar‘s 210mm n-type i-TOPCon cells rolled off its 8 GW factory production lines in the Suqian, Jiangsu province. These n-type cells will be used to produce the……