Category: Green Building LEED News

  • VPP software provider Shifted Energy closes $4.3M funding round

    Shifted Energy provides utilities, property managers and owners of multi-family housing with distributed energy resource (DER) control and monitoring systems, machine-learning data analytics, and dispatch optimization software. Shifted Energy’s platform essentially creates virtual power plants. This is a complex part of the renewable energy market that is growing in importance. “We started Shifted Energy with……

  • Seraphim S4 series modules earn low-carbon certificate

    Seraphim Energy Group Co. announced that it has received the “low-carbon” certificate from CERTISOLIS for its S4 series modules, which evaluates carbon emission impact along the manufacturing chain starting from silicon production to module production. This is an inevitable prerequisite to participate in the French Energy Regulation Council (CRE) auctions, but is also becoming important……

  • Home solar + storage is really a sale of software

    Installers face a difficult task in educating and selling a solar + storage system to a prospective residential or commercial customer, but that task is becoming much more manageable, thanks to an evolving host of software programs and integrated software suites. “New and evolving solar and storage economic variables are going to make it very……

  • Savant adds to Power System distribution roster

    Smart home power company Savant Systems added Zonna Energy and Stellavolta.com as U.S. distributors for its Savant Power System energy management solutions. “Savant is excited to expand our brand reach across the US through partnerships with Zonna Energy and Stellavolta.com,” said JC Murphy, President of Savant. “Homeowners are showing a marked increase in demand for,……

  • GAF Energy Timberline Solar roof shingles now available in Virginia

    GAF Energy’s Timberline Solar roof is now available for sale throughout Virginia. Billed as the world’s first nailable solar shingle, the Timberline Solar Energy Shingle (ES) is the only system to directly integrate solar technology into traditional roofing processes and materials. This announcement follows others in Hawaii, Florida and New Jersey. Timberline Solar singles are……