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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Quick look at Trump’s planned changes to the Clean Power Plan

    Much of our musings about whether a Donald Trump presidency would be good or bad for the solar industry fell back on the “he’s a business man, so maybe he will see the positive business case and job creation story to be told shifting to solar technology.” Well, today, theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Panasonic releases three new modules to HIT lineup (all-black look)

    Panasonic Eco Solutions North America introduced three new photovoltaic module HIT: the N320K, N315K and N310K. These new models are able to produce 320, 315, and 310 watts of power, respectively, and are a continuation of Panasonic’s line of high-efficiency residential solar panels. Boasting module efficiency of 19.1% with aRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Details on new CAD software design tool from PVComplete

    PVComplete is debuting PVCAD, a comprehensive computer-aided design (CAD) tool, powered by Autodesk technology, that could dramatically accelerate solar project design and deployment. How does it work? Solar designers, drafters and engineers use PVCAD to create comprehensive project designs for ground-mounted, rooftop, carport and sloped roof solar projects. For monthly subscription, designers leverage allRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Arc fault detection is still a problem for PV systems – meet a possible solution

    Arc fault events are a pain point in the solar industry for the threat they pose to PV systems and, maybe more so, for the detection headaches they cause. Everyone reading this is nodding along, thinking of the times a system they installed was falsely tripped or, even worse, whenRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Enphase now shipping its sixth generation microinverter system

    You may remember first reading about this around SPI last year, but now you can officially install them: Enphase Energy is shipping its Enphase IQ Microinverter System — its sixth generation of microinverters. Like all previous generations of their technology, the Enphase IQ System is a complete AC solution thatRead More — Solar Builder magazine