Author: LEED Blogger
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Details on PV Kit 2.0 from S-5!, updated to improve installation time
S-5! sent word of its new PV Kit 2.0 EdgeGrab and PV Kit 2.0 MidGrab, offering solar panel installers significant improvements and easier installation. S-5! introduced the original direct-attachment solar panel system 11 years ago. The updates in PV Kit 2.0 are a result of solar installer feedback to solveRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Vivint Solar closes on $811 million in new financing (largest securitization of residential PPAs ever)
Vivint Solar has closed on $811 million aggregate principal amount of debt financing comprised of two separate transactions. The first is a capital markets issuance by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vivint Solar Financing V, LLC, of $466 million aggregate principal amount of Solar Asset Backed Notes, Series 2018-1. The offering wasRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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This ‘drainage’ solar module is designed to avoid dust accumulation
Small scale and scattered geological locations of distributed PV power stations make operation and maintenance tasks difficult. CECEP Solar Energy Technology Co. says it has a solution inherent in its new solar module to solve the O&M pain of clearing dust on the surface of PV modules. The impact wouldRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Power factor boost: Make sure to maximize revenue in design, data monitoring
Remember the Seinfeld episode where the rental car company took Jerry’s reservation, but still didn’t have a car for him? “You know how to take the reservation, you just don’t know how to hold the reservation. And that’s really the most important part: the holding. Anybody can just take them.” That’sRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar was more than half of all U.S. electricity capacity added in Q1 — here’s how it happened
Showing resiliency in spite of the new tariffs on imported modules, the U.S. solar market added 2.5 gigawatts of solar PV in the first quarter of the year, representing annual growth of 13 percent (and a 37% quarter-over-quarter decrease), according to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight Report from GTMRead More — Solar Builder magazine