LEED Points

Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • ITC extension hope? SEIA gives update, calls out Sunnova

    The Investment Tax Credit discussions are heating up. We brought you the opinions of two notable solar CEOs last week to broaden the perspective, and now we bring you the most recent comments from Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Resch sent out anRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Innovative Solar Systems looking for investors to expand

    One of the largest developers of utility scale solar farm projects in the United States, Innovative Solar Systems LLC, is seeking to raise capital to expand operations. ISS has a portfolio of projects that total over 2 GW and has plans to increase its portfolio to over 5 GW by 2018.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • The case for the adhered-ballast solar rooftop attachment system

    Inventor Allen Gezelman asserts that ballast-only solar attachment systems (BOSAS) are sub-optimal for high wind areas such as Florida and  seismic-active areas such as California. As a result, Gezelman decided to come up with his own solution that he calls an adhered-ballast solar attachment system (ABSAS) that is designed forRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Power optimizers v. microinverters: What’s different about these approaches to PV architecture?

    There are three main types of inverter topologies currently used in PV systems: traditional string inverters, microinverters and power optimizers. Since the traditional string inverter topology has a number of significant drawbacks, the industry is moving forward to distributed PV system architecture. The two leading technologies for distributed PV systemRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunEdison to construct 4.5-MW solar project in Dighton, Mass.

    SunEdison has started construction on a 4.5 MW DC solar project in Dighton, Mass., for the Brockton Housing Authority. The housing authority, which serves around 7,000 low and very low income residents, signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with SunEdison last year, and anticipates saving more than $14 million onRead More — Solar Builder magazine