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  • Woman Converts Van Into a Cozy Full Time Home

    Atli, a transit bus driver from Vancouver, Canada has converted a van into a comfortable full-time home. Her main reason for the decision to ditch a regular home for a van home were the rising rents. The home Atli lives in now is a converted 2016 Ford …

  • Duke Energy denied in attempt to raise fixed rates on customers in North Carolina

    Duke Energy had big plans in North Carolina for a $13 billion capital reinvestment plan to modernize the grid and requested a $472 million rate hike to fund it (about 8.5 percent on average). The details of the plan and the increased rates didn’t sound too “modern” to North CarolinaRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • PCI Solar develops solar 1.8-MW project at brownfield site in Wasco, Calif.

    PCI Solar has completed construction of a 1.8-MW solar array for the City of Wasco in California. The project, developed by Siemens, is part of California’s RES-BCT program, which allows a local government with one or more eligible renewable generating facilities to export energy to the grid and receive generationRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sky Management installs 600 kW rooftop solar system at N.J.-based Checkpoint Systems

    Sky Management Services and Sky Power sent word of a 600 kW rooftop solar installation at Checkpoint Systems Corporate Headquarters in Thorofare, N.J. Sky Management purchased the 104,000 square foot building in March 2016. “Checkpoint has made a commitment to continue the global headquarters in Thorofare, NJ. The year longRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Upgrading C&I rooftop solar installations with spray polyurethane foam

    As we have continued our expansion in the commercial and industrial solar market (which includes commercial, industrial, municipal, university, school, cold storage, food-processing and hospital buildings), we’ve discovered something. If commercial building owners are not overly familiar with how solar arrays are installed, they have legitimate concerns about the potentialRead More — Solar Builder magazine