Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • Sunvalley Solar acquires Rayco Energy to expand into residential, multifamily

    Sunvalley Solar just acquired of Rayco Energy Inc., an established northern California company that specializes in providing cost-saving and efficient energy solutions, including LED lighting, Solar Thermal and Solar Electricity, to local communities and business units. Rayco Energy combines energy efficiency measures with renewable energy sources and services the multifamilyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SEIA names interim president to replace Resch

    Tom Kimbis, general counsel and vice president of executive affairs for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), will serve as the association’s interim president starting June 1, SEIA’s leadership announced today. Kimbis has worked at SEIA since 2010, acting as the primary liaison for the U.S. solar industry to theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar groups trying to raise grid-supply cap in Hawaii

    A notable group of solar industry installers and associations filed a request to the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission to increase the capacity for its grid-supply option. This grid supply option is one of two tariffs (the other being self-supply) that replaced net metering in the state; it provides customers theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Hammer Time: What to look for in your next pile-driving machine

    Before driving your piles into the ground, you have one huge decision that could be the key to delivering the project on time, on budget and possibly at a reduced cost: What machine will be driving those piles? The brute force of a hammer might not be the one-size-fits-all toolRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Signal Energy goes with AISG security platform for two California solar sites

    American Integrated Security Group (AISG) installed an integrated security platform at Tranquility Solar Generating facility in Fresno, Calif. The AISG Critical Infrastructure group is now moved on to Garland Solar Farm, Mojave, Calif., the second solar site recently awarded AISG by Signal Energy, where work gets underway on a huge-scale security project.Read More — Solar Builder magazine