Category: Green Building LEED News
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Low-income Nevada elementary schools adding solar thanks to Open Energy, Black Rock Solar
More nice solar news from Nevada: Open Energy, a commercial solar debt finance provider, closed a construction solar loan totaling $500,000 with Nevada-based Black Rock Solar that will enable construction of a 550-kW project portfolio, consisting of four elementary schools serving low-income communities across northern Nevada. This project is supported by the LowerRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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17 States Join to Make Clean Energy Future A Reality
The goal is to pick up the pace of efficiency, renewables, clean transportation and smart grid.
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PV system operators get precise energy regulation with WEB’log
meteocontrol North America, Inc., a subsidiary of meteocontrol GmbH and a provider of solar performance monitoring software, services and hardware, has upgraded its WEB’log data logger with a new intelligent control algorithm that gives photovoltaic (PV) system operators a higher degree of flexibility in regulating what proportion of self-generated energyRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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What you need to know about 1500-volt inverters
Seems like just yesterday that large-scale PV systems moved to 1,000 Vdc in the United States, but another sea change to the 1,500-volt system is imminent. The analysts at GTM Research believe the transition will begin in earnest this year, and so do many of the inverter manufacturers we surveyedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Apple Issues $1.5 Billion Green Bond
Projects will lower Apple’s climate footprint, even transforming its products to recycled and bio-based materials.