Category: Solar Power & Energy
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Virginia Senate votes for 100 percent clean energy by 2050 (in a close vote!)
The Virginia State Senate passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) this week, a bill that puts Commonwealth on a historic path for 100 percent clean energy by 2050, by a narrow 21-19 vote. It is expected that Gov. Northam will sign the bill as he set the goal originallyRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar Support, SEMIKRON team up to service, replace failing solar inverters on large-scale legacy sites
Engineering services company Solar Support has launched a new component replacement program for PV asset owners, operators and O&M providers to service failing inverters, one of the solar industry’s biggest O&M issues. The integrated solution combines diagnostics, repair, training, and refurbishment services to replace damaged inverters with brand-new components at aRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Six solar investment trends: Energy storage and shorter PPAs (and oil companies?) lead the way
Corporate investors in solar energy are modifying their expectations and demands for future utility-scale solar projects, bolstering the profile of the industry as a long-term asset class, and altering PPA and contract terms that make more deals possible, said financiers at Intersolar 2020 in San Diego. The impact ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Fault Busters: A field technician’s guide to troubleshooting solar inverter issues
You’ve got a fault code or even a whole series of fault codes, and it looks like something has gone wrong with an inverter. Downtime is expensive, so a technician needs to hop in a truck and go fix that faulty inverter pronto, right? Hold on there. Effective troubleshooters neverRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Safety lessons from large-scale energy storage deployments
It is well understood that large scale energy storage is the key to allowing us to achieve our clean energy utilization goals in the effort to fight back against climate change. Energy storage helps us overcome the biggest drawback to renewable sources of generation like solar – the issue ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine