Category: Green Building LEED News
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Ideal Power completed prototypes for its innovative B-TRAN semiconductor
Ideal Power Inc. is an innovator of power conversion technologies and just announced that its semiconductor foundry partner has successfully completed prototypes of its Bi-Directional Bi-Polar Junction TRANsistor (B-TRAN). We dove into the unique properties of its B-TRAN semiconductor when it was first introduced. Ideal Power holds over 20 patents onRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Report: Rooftop solar provides even more value than retail rate metering
Net metering is often seen as a good deal for solar installers and their customers, but a negative for utilities and their customers — the non-solar taxpayers in the community. It is said that those others are subsidizing all the great benefits the solar adopters receive. Is it true? A reportRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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TimberRock explains 3 achievements of new energy storage platform REH-FLEX
TimberRock Energy Solutions, the R&D and product development subsidiary of TimberRock Advanced Energy, announced a new energy storage platform called REH-FLEX. Although solar panels, electric vehicles and battery storage are transforming the electrical grid into a bi-directional energy network, the inverters used to move energy in-between these resources and theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Check out this livestream of a 2-MW Farmers Electric Cooperative solar install
Follow Farmers is the story of how Farmers Electric Cooperative in the small Iowa town of Kalona installed nearly 2 MW of solar. The entire construction of this historic solar array is currently streaming live at followfarmers.solar or just sit back and watch it above. Farmers Electric Cooperative partnered withRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Global microgrid lessons will be shared at upcoming New York conference
HOMER Energy will host its fourth annual Microgrid Conference at Columbia University in New York, Nov. 7-8 2016, drawing experienced microgrid developers from all over the world with the theme “Microgrids Lessons from Global Markets.” HOMER Energy founder and CEO Peter Lilienthal will elaborate on that theme as a keynoteRead More — Solar Builder magazine