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Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • Stellar Solar offering $2.99 per watt residential deal

    Stellar Solar, one of California’s leading commercial and residential solar installers since 1998 is now offering residential solar at $2.99 per watt, their first move of several that will cut the cost of going solar by up to 30% in most cases and enable more homeowners than ever to powerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How California’s Rule 21 inverter requirements expand grid capacity, limit energy (revenue) generation

    A multi-year effort has been ongoing in California to update technical requirements for connecting Distributed Energy Resources (DER) to the grid, known as Rule 21. The experience of Germany was cited as one reason to take action. In Germany, significant grid destabilization problems arose when high penetration levels of solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunPower boasts new solar panel efficiency of 22.8 percent

    SunPower has again set a new solar power panel efficiency record, as validated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). After achieving 22.8 percent efficiency for its X-Series solar panel earlier this year, SunPower has reached 24.1 percent efficiency – surpassing the previous world record forRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Details on CyboEnergy’s Dual-Output Off-Grid inverter strategy

    Rapid deployment of distributed PV is causing new issues for the grid that will require some new regulatory considerations and new product solutions. CyboEnergy thinks it has one such solution with the release of its Dual-Output Off-Grid CyboInverter that can run two distinct types of AC loads such as anRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sungevity challenges presidential candidates to add solar to their homes

    Nothing like a good challenge to get a conversation going. Sungevity has issued a Solar Throwdown — a clean energy challenge– to the presidential candidates. First candidate to put solar panels on their home wins. Sungevity’s campaign hopes to shine a light on the economic and environmental benefits of going solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine