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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Non-metal flashings vs. traditional metal flashings

    This piece was contributed by K2 Systems. In the early 2000s, the norm for waterproofing roof attachments was a simple L-Foot put directly onto the roof surface with sealant added to keep water out. K2 Systems’ Senior Director of Training, Johan Alfsen, was pivotal in changing this bad practice, which is often referred to as……

  • The rise of FranklinWH in home energy storage

    The home energy storage (ESS) marketplace is crowded, including brands familiar to solar installers (SolarEdge, Enphase, Canadian Solar) and to homeowners (Panasonic, Duracell, Generac, Briggs & Stratton), as well as roughly 1 zillion more. When a completely new name like FranklinWH made its initial U.S. rollout at Intersolar 2022, touting a true “whole home solution,”……

  • 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……

  • 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……

  • 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……