Category: Green Building LEED News
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UGE to break ground on 2 community solar projects in Oakland, MD
Community solar developer UGE has received the go-ahead to begin construction on two new ground-mount solar projects in Oakland, Maryland. The two projects will have a combined capacity of 5.4 MW — enough to power roughly 1,300 homes. By subscribing to a community solar farm, homeowners, renters, businesses and institutions are able to access the……
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Miami-Dade library gets county’s first large-scale solar roof investment
Advanced Green Technologies (AGT) and Advance Roofing have completed the first large-scale county-owned solar project in Miami-Dade, Florida, at the North Dade Regional Library in Miami Gardens. The 475 kW project was developed under a DMS contract and energy service agreement, and it marks the first of three pilot larger-scale solar projects being implemented in……
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Former Uber, Casper execs launch Haven Energy to simplify home battery sales
Home battery systems could be the next big thing, especially considering that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) extended the 30% solar investment tax credit (ITC) to standalone home battery systems. But still, the current return on investment of a home energy storage system is confusing for homeowners, and the installation / system design is complex……
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Baltimore rooftop solar farm to offset energy consumption for Jewish community groups
MD Energy Advisors (MDEA) recently collaborated with Luminace to provide a rooftop solar energy system for a group of Jewish community organizations in Baltimore. MDEA identified an opportunity to maximize existing structures and solar energy to power multiple properties and offset energy consumption for buildings connected to The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, an organization……
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LGES launches Prime+ home energy storage system with new inverter
LG Energy Solution is debuting a new residential energy storage system this month called Prime+. It will include, of course, LGES batteries but also, for the firs time, a new inverter that LGES is launching in the North American market under its own brand name. LGES is hosting pilot sites with installers across multiple locations……