Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Electriq Power launches cobalt-free battery option with PowerPod LFP

    Electriq Power, a developer of intelligent and integrated home energy storage solutions, added the PowerPod LFP to its residential battery lineup — a high-performance, cobalt-free model. Electriq’s newest addition to the product line comes amid growing demand for longer-lasting, more sustainable battery alternatives. The non-toxic, non-hazardous solution features Lithium-Iron-Phosphate (LiFePO4)Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How to develop managers for your solar business (and why)

    Managing people is a difficult but rewarding job. At our own company, EnerBank, we like to develop and promote people from within whenever possible. We spend a great deal of time developing employees at all levels, in fact, because we view them through the lens of their potential, knowing theyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Catholic Energies helps entire Richmond, Virginia Diocese go solar (7 projects total)

    Seven Catholic communities in the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, which stretches across much of Virginia, have completed or nearly completed solar projects with Catholic Energies this summer, representing a substantial injection of solar power across the Diocese’s churches and schools. The combined projects will generate over 1.6 million kilowatt hoursRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Fast track solar projects with this cool, ‘Turbo-Tax’-simple Originator Engine, loan program

    Raise Green is an investment marketplace for green infrastructure and clean energy projects, and this week it has launched a ‘Turbo Tax-like’ platform that will simplify the paperwork to build a solar project and help crowdfund the financing to get it built. The solution, Originator Engine, was developed in partnershipRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Tigo’s newest rapid shutdown device is UL certified with the largest network of inverters

    Since announcing the TS4-A-2F, Tigo has seen significant demand for it as PV system owners, installers, and distributors look for reliable and cost-effective ways to fulfill National Electrical Code (NEC) requirements for module-level rapid shutdown. It is now reaching rooftops all across the country. “We’ve had more demand for theRead More — Solar Builder magazine