Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • GameChange Pour-in-Place system used 2.5 MW Mass. landfill install

    Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy II, a former Member of Congress, joined with Westfield, Mass., Mayor Daniel Knapik in the ceremonial flipping of a switch in western MA featured in WWLP 22 NEWS. The 2.5 MW Solar Landfill Installation utilized the GameChange Racking Pour-in-Place Ballasted Ground System, and isRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Is Standardized Solar Permitting Our Next Industry Breakthrough?

    Cutting costs has been the key to solar’s rapid expansion this decade. The lion’s share of cost reductions in the solar industry has come from reductions in module prices. The $4 per watt you’d have paid in 2006 just for modules alone will now get the entire residential solar systemRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Confirming the Strength of Residential Roof Structures for Solar Installations

    The rooftop solar PV permitting process involves a number of steps and varies greatly, even between neighboring cities. Jurisdictions follow state or national codes, but each may interpret the codes in their own way and insert additional requirements. In some locations, a rooftop structural analysis conducted by a professional engineerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • ViZn Energy Systems partners with Jabil to manufacture redox flow batteries

    ViZn Energy Systems Inc. (ViZn), a provider of energy storage systems for microgrid and utility applications, has entered into a strategic relationship with Jabil Circuit Inc., a design, manufacturing and supply chain management service provider, to manufacture ViZn’s redox flow batteries in its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. Jabil will help ViZnRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • AET selected by SolarCity for 400 kW ground mount install in Maryland

    Applied Energy Technologies, (AET) a supplier of commercial and utility-scale racking systems, announced the successful installation of its Rayport G ECO for a 400 kW solar PV ground mount system at the Queen Anne’s County Board of Education building in Grasonville, Md. The project, in partnership with SolarCity, a full-serviceRead More — Solar Builder magazine