Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Power optimizer for PV plants from Alencon Systems achieves ETL certification

    Alencon Systems successfully gained ETL certification for its newest SPOT – String Power Optimizer and Transmitter – family of products. The ETL Mark from Intertek is proof that the product has been tested by an independent laboratory and meets the requirements of the applicable product safety standard. The new SPOTRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Yingli modules chosen for Europe’s largest bifacial PV plant

    Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. says that Tempress Systems B.V. part of the Amtech Group has begun to construct the Europe’s largest bifacial PV plant with a capacity of close to 400 kilowatt (KW). The project is located next to the headquarters of Tempress in Vaassen in the Netherlands andRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • JinkoSolar promotes long-term solar project financing through new PACE program

    JinkoSolar (U.S.) Inc., is partnering with CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital to offer long-term project financing to US commercial project customers through the SolarPACE program. SolarPACE is designed to maximize solar energy cash flow to commercial and industrial (C&I) property owners. CleanFund fully funds the installation of the system, while endRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How to optimize performance and profit through O&M monitoring

    As the solar industry matures well past the early adopter stages, smart asset management and operations and maintenance (O&M) practices have increasingly become the focus of savvy solar plant owners and investors. Optimizing uptime has now become a critical foundation of ROI, and one of the keys to achieving optimizedRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • MLPE boom: Analysts expect big things from module-level power electronics market

    The module-level power electronics industry is witnessing an intense growth phase. Demand is driven by increasing solar photovoltaic (PV) installations across the globe and modernization of grid infrastructure capable of accommodating module-level power electronics (MLPE) technology within the system. “With movement towards renewable power and distributed power sources, the MLPERead More — Solar Builder magazine