Category: Green Building LEED News
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Solar and energy storage product trends to watch in 2023 | Power Forward!
In the year-end episode of Power Forward! we discussed notable solar and storage product innovations from 2022 and what product trends we can expect to change the industry in 2023. Here is that part of our wide-ranging 2023 outlook with David Dunlap, VP of product strategy with U.S. solar distributor BayWa r.e. We also discuss……
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Georgia PSC approves Georgia Power’s $100 interconnection fee for new solar customers
The hits against rooftop solar keep coming. Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) voted on a final order in the Georgia Power Company (GPC) rate case. The order fails to expand the successful rooftop solar pilot program that the PSC created in 2020. Instead, the PSC adopted GPC’s anti-solar proposals to retain an instantaneous netting structure……
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TÜV Rheinland, CFV Labs team up to serve North American solar market
TÜV Rheinland and CFV Solar Test Laboratory signed an exclusive partnership agreement to provide solar PV components and power plant testing, inspection, and certification services for the North American market. This agreement was signed six months after the U.S. Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) decided to expand the scope for TÜV Rheinland’s testing……
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Canadian Solar to start TOPCon solar module production in 2023
Solar module manufacturers are moving away from mono PERC solar technology and toward tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) and heterojunction (HJT), which both boast higher levels of power and efficiency. Canadian Solar is the latest to announce a TOPCon model. Its majority-owned subsidiary CSI Solar Co. will start mass production of high efficiency n-type TOPCon……
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Can U.S. energy storage bank on sustainability?
This article originally appeared in the Q4 issue of Solar Builder magazine. Two notable U.S. battery manufacturing announcements have been made since. The ABF gigafactory and the DOE’s loan to GM and LG. The U.S. battery energy storage industry is moving rapidly toward a comprehensive adoption of sustainability practices, inspired by the Biden administration’s new……