Category: Solar Power & Energy
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Former SolarWorld U.S. production facility now producing SunPower P-Series panels
In October 2018, SunPower acquired the SolarWorld Americas facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, making good on its commitment to invest in American manufacturing. Just four months later, SunPower is assembling its 19 percent efficient Performance Series solar panel (P19 or P-Series) for commercial customers in the U.S. factory, leveraging U.S.-made automatedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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REC Solar hypes new solar panel as its most power dense yet
REC Group, the largest European brand for solar panels, is hyping a new solar panel making its debut at Intersolar Europe. REC says this will be the world’s most powerful solar panel for rooftop customers, emerging from REC’s half-cut cell technology. The new panel combines heterojunction cells (HJT) with advancedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Lead-acid replacement Tydrolyte named an emerging battery technology by a national battery organization
Tydrolyte has been selected as one of the top emerging battery technologies of 2019 by the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt). The novel electrolyte is a less toxic drop-in replacement for sulfuric acid in lead batteries that enables significant performance improvements. Lead acid batteries are the oldest andRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Snowlar Builder: We look at the opportunity of solar development in Northern latitudes
Solar power is starting to bolster the energy capacity in northern climes, especially across Canada and Alaska where diesel generators take the cost of electricity sky high. Both fixed-tilt and tracker installations are expanding rapidly in this region, as advancing solar technology helps cope with bitter cold and erratic daylight.Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Snowlar Builder: We look at the opportunity of solar development in Northern latitudes
Solar power is starting to bolster the energy capacity in northern climes, especially across Canada and Alaska where diesel generators take the cost of electricity sky high. Both fixed-tilt and tracker installations are expanding rapidly in this region, as advancing solar technology helps cope with bitter cold and erratic daylight.Read More — Solar Builder magazine