Category: Green Building LEED News
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Google Nest, General Motors headline RMI’s Virtual Power Plant Partnership
Virtual power plants (VPP) are an intriguing path to a more efficient and cost-effective electric grid. VPPs involve the aggregation and coordination of distributed energy resources (like homes with solar + battery storage or smart thermostats or even EVs) to work together as an asset on the grid. Customers themselves or their authorized energy management……
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Fronius Symo Advanced inverters now UL 3741 certified with PanelClaw, IronRidge
The Fronius Symo Advanced inverters are UL 3741* certified for use with two racking manufacturers, IronRidge BX and PanelClawFR. UL 3741 is a path to comply with the NEC 690.12 rapid shutdown inside the array boundary requirement without adding module-level shutdown equipment. With this certification, module level rapid shutdown devices are no longer required on……
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SolarReviews renews SEI partnership to support U.S.-based Spanish speakers in solar
SolarReviews and Solar Energy International (SEI) renewed their awesome partnership for 2023. In 2022, SolarReviews successfully funded the SolarReviews Scholarship, which provided solar training for U.S.-based Spanish Speakers. 2023 will see an expansion of this scholarship to support native Spanish speakers through SEI’s Hispanic and Latin American program with scholarships and program management support, along……
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Trina Solar starts 2023 with production of i-TOPCon cells for Vertex N modules
P-type PERC solar cells are nearing their efficiency limits, which means production of n-type cells is stepping up across the industry. As 2022 drew to a close, Trina Solar‘s 210mm n-type i-TOPCon cells rolled off its 8 GW factory production lines in the Suqian, Jiangsu province. These n-type cells will be used to produce the……
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Solar Landscape energizes award-winning Extra Space Storage community solar project in New Jersey
Solar Landscape has connected the first of its award-winning community solar projects to the grid in Neptune, New Jersey. Located on the Extra Space Storage facility, the project is the second of 46 approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) in Year 2 of the Community Solar Energy Pilot Program. The Neptune……