Category: Green Building LEED News

  • North Carolina sees sustainable energy consumer push

    Solar is still a fledgling industry in North Carolina, but two local entities are making a push to better inform consumers about the real costs of their utility energy and their options for implementing their own soar solutions. First, the NC Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to shapingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Utah gets second largest solar array thanks to Affordable Solar, Sun Edison

    Affordable Solar and Smith’s Food & Drug Stores have completed another project together, this time installing the second largest rooftop solar system in Utah on a Smith’s Food & Drug Stores distribution center in Layton, Utah. This is the fourth time Affordable Solar, a N.M.-based company, has designed and installed a solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunEdison awarded 33 MW deal to modernize SoCal grid

    As part of Southern California Edison’s (SCE) latest round of solar procurement to upgrade and modernize its grid, SunEdison, Inc., a renewable energy development company, was awarded contracts to build 33 MW DC of rooftop solar. The solar systems will be built on rooftops throughout the Orange County and Inland EmpireRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • CalCom Solar starts 1.1 MW install at Medeiros and Son Dairy

    CalCom Solar has started the installation of a new 1.1 MW solar power system at Medeiros and Son Dairy in Hanford, Calif. The project will be completed this summer. “CalCom Solar is making solar energy work for us, both operationally and financially,” said Brian Medeiros. “The dairy business takes constant evaluationRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • AET Provides Roof Ballast System for GM Facility

    Applied Energy Technologies (AET), a supplier of commercial and utility-scale racking systems and one of the top 10 solar racking companies in the United States, was selected by Empower Energies to provide its Rayport-B roof ballast mounting system at GM’s Baltimore Operations facility in White Marsh, Md. This manufacturing campusRead More — Solar Builder magazine