Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Details on three new inverter models from KACO

    The German inverter manufacturer, KACO new energy GmbH, has made new three-phase devices available. The blueplanet 8.6 TL3 and 10.0 TL3 are suitable for residential and commercial-scale PV arrays; the blueplanet 20.0 TL3 fits commercial systems as well as large-scale, industrial-sized power plants. All three inverters enter the market withRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • MetaShield boasts 1.2 percent efficiency boost for triple junction solar cells

    MetaShield LLC, a company focused on advanced glass-based coating technology, announced an independent research study indicating its proprietary MetaSOL nanotechnology coating can provide a 1.2 percent (absolute) efficiency boost for triple junction solar cells. “The enhancement provided by MetaSOL represents a five-year technological leap forward based on recent yearly averageRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Meet Totem: A platform that combines distributed generation, comm and EV into one product

    Hold on to your socks — Totem thinks it has reimagined and redesigned the smart utility with its new platform. “Totem believes design can fundamentally change the world. We’re on a mission to realize the full potential of energy’s transformation by providing communities and corporations with intelligent, experiential and engagingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How a community (solar) comes together: Details on Idaho’s first 500-kW community solar install

    The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is approving an Idaho Power application to build a 500-kilowatt community solar project in southeast Boise. The $1.16 million single-axis solar project on the southwest corner of Amity and Holcomb roads will allow up to 1,093 residential customers and 470 non-residential customers to buy oneRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • EnergySage beefs up financing options in its system with BlueWave, Renew, Wunder

    As solar equipment and installation costs continue to fall, system ownership has become more accessible thanks to increasingly attractive solar loan options. Today, most solar loans quoted in the EnergySage Marketplace are conveniently offered to consumers via the installers themselves. However, since not all installers offer all loan products, someRead More — Solar Builder magazine