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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Solar + Whatever: Different ways installers can provide home energy resilience

    It only takes one hurricane, tornado or wildfire for the value of a resilient home energy system to sink in. Add to such increasing natural disasters the unpopular new utility practice in California of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) — a preemptive shut down of swaths of the grid toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • LS Power turns on 250-MW Gateway Energy Storage project in San Diego County

    LS Power unveiled the largest battery energy storage project in the world (for the moment) with Gateway Energy Storage. The 250 megawatt Gateway project, located in the East Otay Mesa community in San Diego County, Calif., enhances grid reliability and reduces customer energy costs. In doing so, Gateway provides a valuableRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • This Vermont YMCA’s rooftop solar array will provide 25 percent of its energy needs

    Encore Renewable Energy completed a new rooftop solar array in downtown Burlington, Vt. Encore worked extensively with the Greater Burlington YMCA’s management team and construction contractors to integrate the solar project into the new facility that was constructed on a redeveloped property in downtown Burlington, Vermont. The new rooftop solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Roof-integrated solar boost: GAF Energy partners with Sunnova

      GAF Energy‘s roof-integrated solar solutions get another boost in the market place with Sunnova Energy International Inc. signing on to provide the DecoTech 2.0 solar roofing system with its other solar service offerings. The partnership leverages both companies’ reach in the new home and re-roof markets and exemplifies theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Trina Solar adds another 7.6 GW of 210 mm solar cell production capacity

    Trina Solar signed an investment cooperation agreement with the Management Committee of Yancheng Economic and Technological Development Zone in Jiangsu province to expand its manufacturing capacity of 210 mm solar cells. The company’s annual production capacity will reach 26 GW with 70 percent Ultra-High-Efficient 210mm cell by end of nextRead More — Solar Builder magazine