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Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • SolarCity completes 4.7-MW solar project for Army family housing

    More than 18,000 solar panels were installed at Army family housing thanks to Balfour Beatty Communities and SolarCity. The solar panels are installed on multi-family housing, community centers and maintenance facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland and Fort Carson, Colo., to provide power to approximately 1,200 housing units across the twoRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Fronius initiates industry standard for NEC 2017 Rapid Shutdown

    Fronius USA has recently initiated a working group to define an open industry standard for NEC 2017 Rapid Shutdown communication. The standard is now established together with several industry leaders and the SunSpec Alliance. Fronius believes that the best module-level rapid shutdown solutions are not single vendor solutions. Therefore, theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Report: Oil companies should get into energy storage, distributed generation

    Amid falling profits and long-term questions, global oil “supermajors” need to follow in the footsteps of Total – which recently bought energy storage company Saft for $1 billion – and explore opportunities not only in battery but also solar and distributed generation, according to Lux Research. Even though good batteryRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • The next big product push from SolarCity? Solar roofs

    Following its merger with Tesla, there’s been renewed interest in the direction of SolarCity. The obvious next step is a big push to solar-plus-storage solutions and installations, but on the company’s second quarter earnings call this week, Chairman Elon Musk announced that SolarCity will start to produce solar roofs asRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunPower CEO on layoffs in power plant segment, focus shift to distributed generation

    SunPower reports that its distributed generation business performed well — and plans to continue focusing on that segment — but at the cost of its power plant segment, which fell short of its lofty 2016 goals. The company plans to cut 15 percent of its workforce as a result. AsRead More — Solar Builder magazine