Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Fronius explains streamlined software updates for its inverter lineup

    Fronius is really focused on streamlining its software updates these days. Now Fronius customers are able to remotely update the software of inverters over the web. All you need is a Fronius SnapINverter that has an internet connection and the inverter or system is registered on Fronius Solar.web, Fronius’ freeRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar market to triple in size over the next five years

    As we’ve already reported, the U.S. solar market had its biggest year ever in 2016, nearly doubling its previous record and adding more electric generating capacity than any other source of energy for the first time ever. That was just a peek at what GTM Research and the Solar Energy IndustriesRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • 2017 Solar Inverter Buyer’s Guide

    Inverters are the brains of the PV system, and if you want to tease out this metaphor (and I do), the comparison is deeper than just “the part that does the thinking.” Really, looking at the latest studies in neuroscience, you could flip the cliché — brains are maybe theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Putting advanced energy economic impact in perspective — equal to pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics

    National business group Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) released the latest industry data that shows advanced energy is a $200 billion industry in the United States and $1.4 trillion worldwide. To put this in perspective, U.S. advanced energy revenue for 2016 is nearly double beer sales, equal to domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Schletter Group completes three solar projects in the Dominican Republic

    The Schletter Group has completed three further solar projects in the Dominican Republic: in collaboration with the market leading local project developer Trace Solar SRL, Schletter installed three ground-mounted plants with a total capacity of more than 2.2 MWp. The largest solar power plant in the entire Caribbean region hadRead More — Solar Builder magazine