Author: LEED Blogger

  • Watch the solar eclipse on SolarEdge’s monitoring platform

    SolarEdge Technologies says it will be sharing a live broadcast tracking the total solar eclipse from its monitoring platform. The live view is possible with the company’s PV monitoring platform, which leverages its nearly 300,000 monitored solar energy systems across the United States to track the path of the totalRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • EnSync shares insight on Hawaii solar + storage market

    The Hawaii solar +storage market is its own unique beast. Hawaiian Electric Company, the state’s energy utility, faces many modern grid challenges. It has the largest proportion of renewable and distributed energy out of any other utility in the country. In 2016, 26 percent of customer’s electricity demand came from renewableRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Energy regulation news round up: Massachusetts, Montana, Rhode Island and Idaho

    Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the Department of Energy Resources updated the final regulations in the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program, which was mostly met with praise from the solar industry. Specifically, DOER eliminated the hard cap on adders, increased the competitive procurement ceiling price and made positive changesRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Chilicon Power debuting combo solar monitoring, home security unit at SPI

    Chilicon Power has modified one of its core products to function as both a solar monitoring unit and a home security center. The Cortex Gateway communicates with home and office devices through existing wiring, eliminating the need for costly re-wiring. Inside the Monitoring System The multi-rate monitoring technology allows installers to programRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Fun Little Home

    The French firm Baluchon recently unveiled a unique, fun new tiny home on wheels, which packs a lot into a small space. The home is very colorful, and would be a lot of fun to live in, I’m sure, especially given the fact that the interior is very well laid out. The home is called…