Category: Green Building LEED News
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Why ‘Maine won’t wait’ on climate action and what the rush means for solar developers
In 2019, Maine’s Governor Janet Mills addressed the United Nations, laying out a plan for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2045. When compared to Maine’s sister states that have been working for the last decade to establish renewable energy markets to assist with reaching similar carbon neutrality goals,Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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UX Solar, Namasté Solar start on four Denver-areas community solar gardens
UX Solar, a joint-venture partnership between Excelsior Energy Capital and Unico Solar Investors LLC, along with co-development partner Namasté Solar, has broken ground on four new community solar gardens in the Denver metro area, totaling 8 MW of capacity. In 2019, Xcel Energy selected Unico Solar and Namasté Solar toRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Joliet Junior College adds solar array to power 22 percent of the campus via Pivot Energy
Pivot Energy and Joliet Junior College in Illinois (JJC) have completed and activated the 1.3-megawatt onsite solar system at JJC’s Main Campus. The solar array, with 3,542 solar panels, was installed by national solar developer Pivot Energy and will save the college more than $1.6 million in electricity expenses overRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Covid impact: Home electrical usage increased 9.3 percent through spring, summer 2020 says Sense
Based on an analysis of anonymized energy data in more than 5,200 homes that have the Sense home energy monitor, Sense found that, since Covid-19, average electrical usage increased 9.3% from April through August 2020 compared to 2019, a reflection of people using more electricity while they stayed home, combinedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Lock that box: Deadly hazard posed by switch disconnects in PV systems addressed in NEC 2020
While we’ve all been busy figuring out the various ways to comply with NEC 2017 and 2020 rapid system shutdown, NEC 2020 includes another PV system-specific code update that’s arguably more of an everyday potential safety hazard, specifically for children. Highlighted by world-renowned electric code guru Mike Holt in aRead More — Solar Builder magazine