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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • RatedPower automates engineering of substations for utility-scale solar in pvDesign

    To connect a solar PV plant to distribution or transmission networks, it is necessary to step-up the voltage level from medium to high voltage, which usually means a substation. Substations are used to accommodate new energy generation, maintain reliability requirements to address congestion in the power grids, satisfy load growthRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Schneider Electric Solar adds home, large commercial smart edge energy management devices

    Schneider Electric Solar announced InsightHome and InsightFacility last week, the newest additions to the company’s Insight Energy Management ecosystem. Both InsightHome and InsightFacility are smart edge devices that connect customers’ Schneider Electric solar and storage systems to the Insight app. InsightHome targets the residential solar and storage market globally. InsightFacilityRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Emera Technologies officially unveils BlockEnergy and first project with Lennar at NASEW

    The day has arrived: Emera Technologies LLC officially launched its new utility-owned residential energy system BlockEnergy. Emera Technologies is a subsidiary of Emera Inc., a $32 billion energy company based in Canada, serving approximately 2.5 million utility customers in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean. We were given the exclusiveRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • The Pitch: The business case for BlockEnergy’s community microgrid approach

    To conclude our exclusive look at BlockEnergy, just launched officially at North American Smart Energy Week, we examine the business case for utilities and developers. Quick refresher: Developed by Emera Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Emera Inc., the BlockEnergy Smart Platform is the world’s first utility-focused, front-of-the-meter, distributed renewable energy platform forRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Overview of redox flow battery chemistries, market players

      Two weeks ago, we explored how redox flow batteries (RFB) stack up to lithium batteries. Today we dig more into the main RFB technologies currently available or under development, beginning with the most adopted and investigated Redox Flow Batteries (RFB), the Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFB).  This analysis comes viaRead More — Solar Builder magazine