Category: Solar Power & Energy
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This community solar ‘Solutions Toolbox’ looks to grow the shared-solar market
Noted in our top feature this week, community solar is a growing opportunity in various markets across the country. One big effort in its expansion, the Community Solar Value Project (CSVP), an effort co-funded by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative, has launched a new Solutions Toolbox for utilitiesRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar for All: How to incentivize community solar projects to benefit low-, middle-income customers
Community solar has taken off within the renewable energy development leagues, melding the interests of residential and commercial or industrial customers, as well as the local utilities. While the inclusion of low- and middle-income (LMI) residential customers are widely enabled by state legislation on community solar, specific carve-outs or percentageRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Pile Problems: How Landwehr mounted 10-MW of community solar after 80 percent pile refusal
The team at Landwehr Construction encountered one of its toughest community solar installs in Eastern Minnesota thanks to 25-plus ft of weathered sandstone underneath 18-in. of top soil. Landwehr Construction started pounding pile on the larger of the two sites but had a refusal rate of about 80 percent onRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Michigan solar market gains new level of certainty after commission ruling
Progress continues to come in the Midwest solar industry. What many Midwest markets lack in higher, conducive rates, they are starting to gain in certainty. The Michigan Public Service Commission issued an order setting rates for renewable energy developers from Consumers Energy that will create the certainty necessary to spurRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar-Tectic earns patent for CIGS thin-film tandem solar cell
A patent application for Solar-Tectic LLC’s CIGS thin-film tandem solar cell has been allowed by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent is the first ever for a CIGS layer on crystalline silicon thin-film (CSiTF), and covers all inorganic materials, including germanium, for the bottom layer. More on CIGSRead More — Solar Builder magazine