Category: Green Building LEED News

  • SunLink grows executive roster with VP of operations, head of electrical engineering

    SunLink Corp. continues to grow its executive bench strength with the addition of Vincent Sang as vice president of operations and Daniel Grill as head of electrical engineering. “As an energy solutions company, SunLink is focused on optimizing every factor that contributes to making an energy project successful,” explains SunLinkRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • 3 reasons Donald Trump won’t kill the solar industry

    On the campaign trail, Donald Trump made it clear that he favored coal and natural gas, wanted to kill energy regulations, and that he thought wind and solar power were too expensive. In fact, at a May 2016 press conference Trump said, “I know a lot about solar, the problemRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New England Solar buys two large-scale Sunpower projects in California

    New Energy Solar acquired a substantial majority interest in two large-scale solar projects developed/designed by SunPower, totaling over 134 MW, located in Kern County, Calif. SunPower will retain an ownership interest in the projects, which each having a capacity of 67.4 MWs, and provide ongoing operation and maintenance services. StanfordRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Thin-Film in 2016: Don’t look now, but thin-film PV is positioned for growth

    A narrative has formed around thin-film PV modules that doesn’t totally match the reality. Initially neck and neck with crystalline silicon as the solar industry grew in the ‘90s, some high-profile big bets, headlined by Solyndra, did not pay off. We won’t rehash that old territory, but where previous technologyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Trina Solar says it hit a new mono-crystalline PERC cell efficiency record

    Feels like its been awhile since a module manufacturer touted an efficiency record. The wait is over: Trina Solar Limited announced that its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China set a new world conversion efficiency record of 22.61 percent for a high-efficiency p-type mono-crystalline silicon (c-Si)Read More — Solar Builder magazine