Category: Green Building LEED News
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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
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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
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How JinkoSolar faired in a national assessment of PV Modules Testing Accuracy
JinkoSolar‘s R&D Center module laboratory obtained satisfactory results in the latest national assessment of PV Modules Testing Accuracy. Organized by the National Institute of Metrology, China (NIM) and China Building Material Test & Certification Group (CTC) – results of the “Monofacial/ Bifacial PV Module’s Electrical Parameter Testing Capability Verification” wereRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Nexamp secures $440 million for community solar portfolio of nearly 100 projects
Nexamp has emerged as the largest owner-operator of community solar assets across the sector’s fastest growing markets, and a financing deal announced today hammers this home: Nexamp Inc. closed a $440 million senior secured credit facility for a 380-MW portfolio of solar and energy storage assets, the largest debt financing ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Source Renewables planning two community solar projects on former Buffalo, New York landfill
New York solar developer Source Renewables announced plans to develop two community solar projects on the Marilla Street Landfill in South Buffalo. Source Renewables has submitted an application for rezoning with the City of Buffalo to rezone the Marilla Street Landfill property to a distributed generation solar farm, which would consist ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine