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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Russelectric debuts Advanced Microgrid Control Solution

    Russelectric, A Siemens Business, announced its Advanced Microgrid Control Solution, adding value to a facility’s infrastructure through power quality, resiliency, cost reduction, carbon minimization and grid market transaction participation. At the core of the Advanced Microgrid Control Solution, Russelectric’s transfer switches, switchgear, and power controllers provide hardware, data, and controlRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Buyer Beware Webinar: Lessons Learned from Inverter Testing

    Register here Tue, Apr 6, 2021 2 p.m. EDT Can you trust an inverter datasheet? Results from independent testing show that datasheets can mislead buyers: reported efficiency may be impossible to achieve in real-world conditions, and certifications do not guarantee safe operation. With independent testing, inverter buyers and system ownersRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar Support debuts end-of-warranty solar plant and equipment assessment service

    Solar Support, a specialized engineering company with a broad portfolio of reliability solutions, now offers independent plant and equipment end-of-warranty assessment services for utility-PV asset owners. The services include onsite review of system and equipment performance as well as detailed documentation owners can use to secure support before EPC andRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Global PV on track to lose $14.5 billion a year in fixable issues by 2024 says Raycatch report

    Raycatch, a start-up that has developed an AI-driven digital asset management system of solar PV assets, analyzed raw data derived from 75 geographically diverse utility-scale solar plants with a total capacity of 1.2 GW, and its findings are fairly startling: • 65% of the plants have disconnected strings, 55% have invertersRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Time to revisit standalone solutions to solve rapid shutdown system design

    Rapid shutdown probably feels like old news at this point, but the product market is just now hitting its stride. Initially, the NEC 2017 and 2020 code changes directly favored the technology of certain module-level power electronic brands, and early versions of inverter-agnostic rapid shutdown devices that paired with stringRead More — Solar Builder magazine