Category: Green Building LEED News
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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……
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Tigo Energy acquires data analytics company FSIGHT
Tigo Energy announced the acquisition of FSIGHT, an energy data analytics software company based in Hod HaSharon, Israel. With FSIGHT, Tigo expands its ability to use energy consumption and production data for solar energy producers. The transaction was signed on Nov. 29, 2022. The two companies will structure the new operation to expand their combined……
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Shikun & Binui Energy completes Brazoria West solar project in Texas
Shikun & Binui Energy has completed construction on the 260 MWdc Brazoria West solar project, acquired from Savion in 2021. “The completion of Brazoria West is a significant milestone for the group and paves the path to our goal of becoming an integrated IPP in the U.S.,” said Didi Paz, CEO of Shikun & Binui……
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U.S. solar wafer manufacturing coming online via CubicPV
The United States has a pretty good amount of domestic solar module manufacturers. What the U.S. lacks is the on-shore supply of the components that comprise those modules, like silicon wafers, which are needed to create solar cells. Currently there is no high-volume silicon wafer production in the United States. The hope is the domestic……