Category: Green Building LEED News
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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
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Pretty cool: Sunrun, GRID to provide free battery systems to low-income Californians in wildfire regions
Everyone in solar and storage is making their pitch to California homeowners to get ahead of wildfire season, and this deal from Sunrun and GRID Alternatives will be tough to beat. GRID, the non-profit leader in making renewable energy technology and job training accessible to underserved communities, is teaming withRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar stats of the week, including 50,000 California homes adding storage
With our Terminator vision turned on, we scoured the internet for solar market stats this week. Here’s what caught our eye. Loans outpace leases in 2019 The numbers are in and loans accounted for 54 percent of the U.S. solar financing market in 2019, according to WoodMackenzie’s new report — aRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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HOLT Renewables adds solar atop this industrial laundry facility in Texas
UniFirst, one of North America’s largest uniform and workwear services companies, is now generating solar power at its industrial laundry facility in San Antonio, Texas. HOLT Renewables, a local commercial solar contractor, performed the design, engineering, and construction of the 232.5 kilowatt rooftop solar system, which will offset more thanRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Win for clean energy: Minnesota PUC orders Xcel to provide more detail in HCA report
Two weeks ago, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ordered Xcel to make several changes to its 2020 Hosting Capacity Analysis (HCA) report, which it will file in early November. Whereas previous HCA maps from Xcel aggregated all the results and blurred out a lot of detail, future HCAs will showRead More — Solar Builder magazine