Category: Solar Power & Energy
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MCE Solar One, Bay Area’s largest publicly owned solar project, now complete
Built on an old refinery, MCE Solar One is a new 60-acre, 10.5 MW ground mount solar farm in Richmond, Calif., brought to life by Cenergy Power and sPower. The project deployed approximately 80,000 ground mounted modules using both a fixed tilt rack as well as single axis trackers, withRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Ask a Distributor: We ask distributors for their purchasing advice, products to watch in 2018
Solar is now the No. 1 new source of capacity being added to the grid, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and solar installer is the fastest growing job in the country according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And what’s the reason for the rise of this newRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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This Innowatts, mPrest integration looks to improve utility forecasting behind the meter
If the government is going to inflate the cost of solar, it’s time to turn to even smarter solutions to bring them back down. mPrest, a provider of control software for grid modernization and Innowatts, a self-learning retail energy platform, for example, formed a partnership to integrate customer/ behind-the-meter intelligenceRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Perovskite breakthrough: NREL gains new insight into how the cells degrade
Perovskite solar cells are the most tantalizing research category in the solar industry because of their efficiency and versatility, but thus far haven’t budged outside a lab setting. A microscopic analysis conducted by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has revealed new insight into how the devices degrade— huge information forRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Survey: 12 percent of broadband households plan to install solar in 2018
New energy research announced by Parks Associates reveals 12% of U.S. broadband households that do not currently have solar PV panels are likely to purchase them in the next year. The IoT research firm notes the most popular energy-efficiency equipment for 2018 is a backup generator, with 19% of currentRead More — Solar Builder magazine