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  • SunPower, KB Home debut OneRoof — a solar PV system designed for new homes

    KB Home will be the first homebuilder to offer SunPower’s new OneRoof product at its Ashbury new-home community in the San Francisco Bay Area. The first-of-its-kind SunPower OneRoof system is being pitched as a durable, attractive and cost-effective solar roofing product for the new-home market. KB Home has been intoRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Vivint Solar customers can now be a utility resource via EnergyHub partnership

    EnergyHub has partnered with Vivint Solar to make their residential storage systems available as cost-effective grid-edge resources for utilities. Utilities can now use EnergyHub’s Mercury DERMS platform to manage behind-the-meter batteries from Vivint Solar customers for grid services, expanding efforts to improve grid health and incentivize the adoption of residential storage.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Pure Safety Group debuts new fall protection system — Guardian Retractable HLL

    Pure Safety Group, a company dedicated exclusively to fall protection for workers at height, introduces the Guardian Retractable HLL (horizontal lifeline). Available July 8 in North America, the HLL is for use in either fall arrest or fall restraint applications. During a fall, the Retractable HLL will deploy an extendingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Wildfire response: Citadel Roofing and Solar opens new office in Santa Rosa, California

    Citadel Roofing & Solar has opened an office in Santa Rosa, Calif., in response to growing demand for its products from area homeowners and homebuilders, Executive Vice President Aaron Nitzkin announced this week. “Wildfires have sent interest in solar energy systems and energy storage systems skyrocketing in the Santa RosaRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • IEEFA: Outdated Bureau of Land Management policies hinder solar development

    The largest property owner in the U.S.—the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)—has acreage set aside for utility-scale solar development on only 0.03% of the roughly 100 million acres it manages across the sun-rich Southwest, finds a report published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. The report notesRead More — Solar Builder magazine