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Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • More Nevada solar layoffs: Priemier Solar, Radiant Solar make cuts

    Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but solar companies are laying off workers in Nevada and looking for business out of state. Following the now infamous decision to slash net metering buyback rates and add high fees for solar customers in Nevada, Las Vegas-based Radiant Solar Solutions of NV wasRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How inverters are changing PV systems with bundled services

    There’s that joke about smartphones that’s kind of a cliché now: Why are they called “phones” still? The phone part is like 1 percent of its usefulness. Inverters are kind of trending in that direction, too. Defining an inverter as merely a device that converts direct current from a solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • 8 improvements in three-phase string inverters

    Three-phase string products have dominated the distributed generation application space while central inverters are starting to be displaced. With this transition, CPS Americas says developers have seen the following improvements: 1. Cost per watt vs. central down from $0.25 to $0.13 2. Cost per watt with 600 Vdc to 1,000Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • A commercial PV storage solution? Austin Energy, Ideal Power think so

    Ideal Power Inc. has partnered with Austin Energy in a federally funded research program as part of the “Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV” (SHINES) program. The Austin Energy led projects are partially funded by a $4.3 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShotRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • World’s largest floating solar power plant on the way in Japan

    In a joint venture, Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation announced that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has started construction of the world’s largest 13.7-MW floating solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir, managed by the Public Enterprises Agency of Chiba Prefecture in Japan for industrial water services. ScheduledRead More — Solar Builder magazine