Category: Green Building LEED News

  • How to manage your solar company’s online reputation according to SolarReviews

    For better or worse, the internet is now a major part of every business. Many customers search for reviews about potential contractors before committing to a company, making what they find online about your business extremely important. In fact, upward of 90% of people make decisions based on what theyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Momentum Solar aligns with Generac to deploy solar + storage with whole home backup

    Momentum Solar, the largest privately-owned residential solar installer in the United States, forged a strategic relationship with Generac Power Systems to deploy its new solar + storage technology solutions to homeowners for seeking whole home clean back-up power. Here’s that news again if you missed it. Momentum CEO Arthur SouritzidisRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Explained: How PVCAD Mega integration enables PVSyst to model sites with varying terrain

      For nearly three decades, PVSyst has retained its place as the industry-standard software for modeling the yield of PV arrays. However, as one of the oldest photovoltaic software programs, even its greatest champions will admit that the user interface is cumbersome and some of the functionality can be clunkyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Blackstone, GSO commit to $300 million in residential solar loans via Loanpal

    Residential solar financier Loanpal announced last week that Blackstone has committed to invest in up to $300 million of residential solar loans originated and serviced on the Loanpal platform, through funds managed or advised by GSO Capital Partners LP. Those GSO funds will provide financing for solar systems for 10,000Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Paralleling power controls: onboard vs. centrally located

    Many facilities run several generators in parallel to ensure power reliability and guarantee sufficient emergency or backup power. Paralleling generators in this way improves reliability, increases load management flexibility, manages run time on engines and provides maintenance flexibility reducing generator costs. Synchronizing engine generators to a common bus, operators canRead More — Solar Builder magazine