Category: Green Building LEED News

  • SEPA comments on Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization funding

    The solar industry is ready to expand at a ridiculous rate, but if the grid lags behind, progress will fall short of potential. Hopefully, the Department of Energy’s latest announcement of up to $220 million in new funding will keep grid modernization moving the right way. The funding is forRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Navy’s Great Green Fleet Deploys With Biofuels

    The first Navy ships running partially on biofuels as part of everyday operations are at sea after leaving San Diego.

  • Solar FlexRack appoints new CEO

    The Board of Directors of Northern States Metals, a full service provider of custom-designed, engineered and extruded aluminum products and owner of Solar FlexRack, a ground mount solar racking system to the commercial and utility scale solar industry, appointed Jeff Gwinnell as the company’s new president and CEO. Gwinnell will alsoRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New Mexico, Affordable Solar bring 24-MW of solar to replace coal-fired systems

    Solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm Affordable Solar, has partnered with Array Technologies, Inc. (ATI) to bring clean solar energy to thousands of New Mexicans in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas. Industry pioneers Affordable Solar and ATI are both locally owned and operate out of Albuquerque. The SantaRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • ViZn Energy receives 128 kW battery system order from Idaho National Laboratory

    ViZn Energy Systems Inc., a provider of energy storage systems for microgrid and utility applications, received an order for a 128 kW/320 kWh redox flow battery system based on its zinc-iron chemistry from Idaho National Laboratory (INL), part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) complex of national laboratories. ViZn’s flowRead More — Solar Builder magazine