Category: Green Building LEED News
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Meet Panasonic’s top solar and storage installers from 2022
Panasonic Corporation of North America announced recipients of its 2022 Customer Appreciation Awards that highlight the national Installer of the Year as well as regional recipients in the following award categories: Residential Installer of the Year, EverVolt ESS Installer of the Year, Fastest Growing Installer of the Year and Fastest Growing EverVolt ESS Installer of……
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FranklinWH ESS approved for fast-tracked permitting in Honolulu
FranklinWH has received the Materials and Methods (M&M) Certification from the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP). Solar energy storage system (ESS) installers on the island of Oahu can now reference the Franklin Home Power M&M Certification to fast-track the standard residential permitting process and generally avoid annoying permitting delays….…
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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……