Category: Green Building LEED News
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Black & Veatch completes assessment of Boviet’s Gamma and Vega Series PV modules
Black & Veatch completed an independent assessment of Boviet Solar Technology‘s Gamma Series Monofacial and Vega Series Bifacial PV Modules, manufactured at Boviet’s facility in Vietnam. Black & Veatch is a leading engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and consulting company. Its independent PV module assessments are often relied upon by industry stakeholders to evaluate PV modules……
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FERC Order 2222 implementation ‘gaps’ present serious challenges, says Guidehouse Insights
In 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 2222 with the intent of opening regional transmission organization (RTO)/independent system operator (ISO) wholesale markets to aggregations of distributed energy and demand response resources (DER). Doing so would vastly expand the tools system operators can use to balance the transmission grid. Order 2222 also meant……
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Code crisis averted: ICC ready to designate solar, storage as Risk Category 2
In a release of preliminary results on the 2024 ICC Building Code online governmental vote, the International Code Council’s (ICC) members have approved two compromise proposals from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) that designate solar and storage projects as Risk Category 2 infrastructure. Without SEIA’s proposals, S79-22 and S81-22, a proposal from the Federal……
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Four takeaways from California NEM 3.0 remix
California is taking a new shot at designing residential solar incentives after a revision proposed in December 2021 raised the ire of nearly everyone in the solar industry and, coincidentally, almost no one at the major utilities. The critique of last year’s Net Energy Metering proposal, known as NEM 3.0, centered on concerns that the……
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Check out SunModo’s new logo
SunModo Corp., a solar mounting solutions provider, launched of its new logo and tagline this week. While the name remains the same, the company says the refreshed logo and tagline better represent their aggressive new position in the market. The “O” in the logo has been updated to include a lightning bolt to capture the……