Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Hammer Time: What to look for in your next pile-driving machine

    Before driving your piles into the ground, you have one huge decision that could be the key to delivering the project on time, on budget and possibly at a reduced cost: What machine will be driving those piles? The brute force of a hammer might not be the one-size-fits-all toolRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Signal Energy goes with AISG security platform for two California solar sites

    American Integrated Security Group (AISG) installed an integrated security platform at Tranquility Solar Generating facility in Fresno, Calif. The AISG Critical Infrastructure group is now moved on to Garland Solar Farm, Mojave, Calif., the second solar site recently awarded AISG by Signal Energy, where work gets underway on a huge-scale security project.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Bombard Renewable Energy goes with Solectria inverters for 17-MW community solar install

    Bombard Renewable Energy chose Yaskawa – Solectria Solar’s SGI XTM utility-scale inverters and SolrenView monitoring for a 17.5-MW community solar installation in the Mojave Desert town of Pahrump, Nev. The project is an undertaking by the Valley Electric Association (VEA), a member owned non-profit electric cooperative. Bombard Renewable Energy is theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SimpliPhi Power makes big push into Australian solar, storage market

    Ojai, Calif.-based SimpliPhi Power continues to gain traction in the Australian market with its cobalt-free lithium-ion storage solutions now incorporated as part of GSES (Global Sustainable Energy Solutions Pty Ltd) training courses. GSES is a renewable energy engineering, training and consultancy and has recently launched the grid-connect PV with batteryRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solaria releases new PowerXT modules (both residential and commercial solutions)

    Solaria just introduced its PowerXT 330Wp and 400Wp modules optimized for residential and commercial rooftops respectively– offering high efficiency for this rapidly-growing sector of the clean energy market. Solaria’s high output modules are built on the company’s proprietary technology, which utilizes an advanced cell interconnect and module production processes. SolariaRead More — Solar Builder magazine