Category: Green & Clean
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Trina Solar’s Vertex PV module tests over 510 Watts (could hit 600 W in the future)
After an independent evaluation, TÜV Rheinland has concluded that Trina Solar’s Vertex module is able to reach 515.8W power output. The Vertex is one of the first ultra-high power modules to be certified by international testing institutions. It has passed the TÜV Rheinland photovoltaic module IEC test and been grantedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Extensible Energy tells us how to reduce commercial demand charges with just solar (no batteries)
Solar PV systems for commercial buildings seem like a no-brainer considering the roof space, but growth has been slow in this segment in part because solar on its own doesn’t solve a commercial building’s biggest energy cost: monthly demand charges. Solving for demand charges usually means coupling the solar withRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar Distancing: Sizing a storage system based on an energy bill
Sizing out a PV system is somewhat simple. Sizing the storage element to pair with it is much more nuanced and complex depending on whether the battery is just for backup (and how much back up) or for daily cycling (or both!) and what the ROI would be based onRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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FYI: OpenSolar is a free solar project design and proposal tool (started by the co-founder of Sungevity)
The team that started the first remote solar sales business, Sungevity, more than a dozen years ago is launching OpenSolar, a comprehensive suite of new, free tools to fully digitize the solar installer business, from phone or other remote sales to design, finance and customer relationship management. “With the COVID19Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Big news: California PUC adds ‘avoided transmission costs’ to value of distributed energy resources
In a big win for clean local energy in California, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has agreed to include avoided transmission costs as part of the valuation of distributed energy resources (DER). The CPUC uses the Avoided Cost Calculator (ACC) as a key tool to calculate the valueRead More — Solar Builder magazine