Category: Green Building LEED News

  • FTC adds tracker clamp for First Solar Series 6 modules

    We got an up-close look FTC Solar’s new 1P solar tracker at RE+, Pioneer, which had several clever design ideas. The solar tracker and engineering service provider is still in tweaking mode is seems, developing a novel clamping solution specifically for easing the installation of First Solar Series 6 and Series 6 Plus modules on……

  • How large-format solar modules disrupt off-grid design

    The following article was sent by the charge controller experts at Morningstar Corp. We are hosting a Morningstar webinar on Nov. 17, covering off-grid innovations. Sign up here to join us live or to watch on-demand. The “large format” 72 cell nominal 24 V solar module has been a staple of industrial and other off-grid……

  • REC N-Peak 3 Black Series for U.S. rooftop solar market now in production

    REC Group has started production of the REC N-Peak 3 Black Series for the U.S. rooftop market, the third generation of its n-type TOPCon cell-based solar panels. Production is happening at REC’s Industry 4.0 manufacturing site in Singapore, with first U.S. shipments planned to arrive in January 2023. The new N-Peak has improved power density……

  • Connecticut manufacturer goes solar (and finances partial reroof) via Greenskies PPA

    Greenskies Clean Focus completed the installation of a 698.87 kW rooftop solar array for Lyman Products headquarters and manufacturing facility in Middletown, CT. Lyman anticipates this solar installation will satisfy an estimated ninety-six percent of the facility’s annual electricity needs. Lyman partnered with Greenskies to develop, finance, construct, own, operate, and maintain the system under……

  • PWRcell – A Battery Storage Option for New or Existing Solar Installs

    The latest feature of the PWRcell Solar + Storage solution is here!  The Generac PWRcell Solar + Battery Storage solution, traditionally a DC coupled system for maximum efficiency, can now be AC Coupled to existing PV and Generac Home Standby Generators.  In residential solar today, 70% of solar installations are ‘solar only’ where solar panels……