Author: LEED Blogger
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Meet Fellowship Energy, a company financing solar systems for faith-based organizations
Sustainability is often an important aspect of a faith-based community’s mission, but churches, parochial schools and other nonprofits have been left out of the solar revolution due to their inability to take advantage of federal solar tax incentives and other challenges. Places of worship was one segment highlighted in thisRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Vivint Solar gets lease option approved for Florida customers
The Florida Public Service Commission has approved Vivint Solar‘s solar lease product proposal, and they are immediately available in the St. Petersburg and Orlando areas. New Vivint Solar customers in other markets in Florida may also have the option to qualify for a solar lease. Vivint Solar expanded into FloridaRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Meet SMA’s Sunny Highpower PEAK3 inverter — a scalable 1,500 Vdc option for large-scale projects
SMA America‘s new Sunny Highpower PEAK3 inverter is now available for ordering in North America and will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2019. Designed for larger distributed generation and utility-scale projects, the Sunny Highpower PEAK3 can be used as modular building block for deveoplers in need of aRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Shadow costs: How outdated local processes stifle the true solar market
While PV technology has made considerable gains in terms of cost reduction and increased efficiency over the last decade, many authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) around the country have not. Government often gets credit for growing the solar market through subsidies, but this ignores regulatory hurdles in the way of projectRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Setting an example: Three ways for U.S. jurisdictions to make solar energy a priority
In our cover feature for Sept/Oct, we look at the inefficiencies in local permitting and interconnection processes that are holding back solar energy adoption in pockets across the country. Check out the full feature here. On the flip side of the issues noted are communities making an effort to reviseRead More — Solar Builder magazine