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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Apex Solar achieves company-wide NABCEP accreditation

    Apex Solar Power has achieved a milestone shared by a select few solar companies in the United States: company-wide NABCEP accreditation. The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) is self-described as “the most respected, well-established and widely recognized certification organization for North American solar professionals.” NABCEP is theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Town rejects solar farm because it will ‘suck up all the energy from the sun’ and other concerns

    North Carolina is one of the more progressive, up-and-coming states for solar energy development. We even started a slow clap when it hit 1 GW. But word of this has not yet spread to the town of Woodland, which just voted to reject a proposal to rezone a section ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Do you need a solar snow management system?

    In North America, over 75 percent of the roofs installed on residential construction projects are asphaltic composition shingles. If you live in an area that receives snow and ice, and your roofing material is composition shingle, you’ve probably never experienced a significant roof avalanche. The reason for this is theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • PVComplete, REC Solar team up to accelerate solar project design

    PVComplete, a solar design software provider, announced that it has selected by REC Solar as their PV project design platform. REC Solar, a national provider of commercial solar and energy solutions based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., serves customers nationwide in the retail, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, government and nonprofit sectors.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How The Paris Agreement Falls Short

    Without a global carbon tax, we can’t bring emissions down fast enough to avoid catastrophy.