Category: Green Building LEED News
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Watch: Automated solar panel installation validated at Mortenson, Array project site
With equipment costs down about as low as they can go, and with constant remarks of “labor shortages,” the next step-change in solar construction CAPEX is likely to be automated panel installation. We have profiled a few such strategies over the years. The latest is coming via advanced robotic systems company Sarcos Technology and Robotics……
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OpenSolar integrates EagleView solar site assessments
OpenSolar, the only entirely free solar design and sales platform, is adding EagleView’s aerial imaging and property data as an option. Available now in public beta, installers can order and import EagleView data directly into the OpenSolar platform, adding an additional layer of site assessment accuracy and expected solar performance validation. “EagleView represents a strong,……
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CertainTeed debuts new Solstice solar shingle, all-black panel
Sustainable building materials supplier CertainTeed launched the next generation of its solar panel and building-integrated PV (BIPV) products at the International Roofing Expo this week. CertainTeed, like GAF Energy, is trying to develop products from a roofer’s perspective that also deliver the aesthetics that homeowners require. “CertainTeed has supported generations of builders, roofers and contractors……
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PV Pro Cures | How Inxeption simplifies solar module buying, logistics
Solar module procurement has been precarious the last few years. The Section 201 tariffs of the Trump Administration. The Auxin petition to expand the bounds of the anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariffs. The allegations of forced labor in China’s Xinjiang province and the resulting Withhold Release Order (WRO) and Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act……
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USCE launches clean energy platform with US Solar as first operating business
US Clean Energy LLC (USCE) has launched a new platform aimed at the growing need for clean energy infrastructure, capital and technology that support and facilitate the evolving energy transition. USCE will act as the holding company and corporate resource center for its clean energy operating businesses, with US Solar as its first operating business….…