Category: Green Building LEED News
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Greenskies energizes 3 MW of solar for N.J. public school district
Greenskies Clean Focus has completed 10 solar systems totaling 3 MW for the Township of Union Public Schools in New Jersey. The energy generated by these projects is expected to offset 74% of the schools system’s annual electrical use, resulting in more than $370,000 in annual energy cost savings. “Greenskies is excited to support the……
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PVcase secures $100M investment to solve data risk challenge
EU-based solar project design software provider PVcase has secured a joint investment of $100 million. The funding will support the company’s efforts make solar project design faster, more efficient and precise while solving the industry’s growing problem of “data risk.” Despite considerable resources already invested in the solar market, the solar engineering industry lacks the……
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Benefits (and tradeoffs) of large-format PV modules
This is an excerpt from the Q2 2023 issue of Solar Builder magazine, written by Cherif Kedir, president and CEO at the Renewable Energy Test Center (RETC), an accredited testing laboratory for solar photovoltaic and energy storage products. Subscribe to Solar Builder magazine for free (print or digital) right here. Lowering costs, improving performance, and……
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Incentive financing enables solar, battery storage at low-income community in Calif.
A California-based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing clean energy to communities has secured financing to deploy affordable energy storage in low-income homes. The financing is part of The Energy Coalition’s (TEC) development of the Bassett Avocado Heights Advanced Energy Community (BAAEC) project, in partnership with Perl Street and Urban Us Capital. As part of the……
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Need laser-focused C&I solar design? Time to check out LIDAR
This post comes via Aurora Solar. For more C&I design insight, check out this How to qualify a project site in 20 mins using HelioScope webinar. Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) uses lasers to measure the size, shape, area, and other physical characteristics of proposed building sites. These measurements can then be used to generate highly accurate……