Category: Solar Power & Energy
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Duke Energy Florida installed its one-millionth solar panel, previews the next hundred thousand
Duke Energy Florida is crowing about recently installing its one-millionth solar panel in the state at the company’s Columbia Solar Power Plant in Fort White, Fla. It’s a somewhat arbitrary big round number, but it does gives us a reason to check in on the heights Duke Energy Florida isRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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REC now producing Alpha 72 Series, pitched as ‘most powerful 72-cell panel on the market’
REC Group is now producing its 72-cell REC Alpha Series solar panel, which is being billed as “the world’s most powerful 72-cell panel available on the market,” reaching 450 Wp with a module efficiency of 21.3 percent or 213 watts/m², ensuring higher energy yields driving down solar electricity generation costs forRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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KiloVault debuts pure lead carbon deep-cycle battery aimed at residential solar
KiloVault is promoting a new PLC series of advanced, pure lead carbon, sealed AGM, deep cycle batteries. Designed for optimum performance in Partial State of Charge (PSoC) applications, the PLC series is ideal for residential or light commercial off-grid, backup, or self-consumption applications. PLC batteries use a specially formulated carbonRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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JPMorgan Chase commits to more clean energy and less coal, oil and gas funding
During its Investor Day today, JPMorgan Chase announced a slew of clean energy commitments while also placing restrictions on any further coal and Arctic oil and gas funding. This announcement follows similar commitments made by a number of European banks and by Goldman Sachs, the first U.S. bank to announceRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Russelectric debuts customizable SCADA for solar plant monitoring
Russelectric, a Siemens Business and manufacturer of power control systems and automatic transfer switches, has debuted a new customized Russelectric supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. This will enable users to monitor system operation, acknowledge alarms, and review PLC setpoints and alarm history. All screens are custom-designed for eachRead More — Solar Builder magazine