Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Details on LG’s next generation NeON 2 solar panels (shipping next month)

    LG Business Solutions is launching a new generation of solar modules in the United States – the latest LG NeON 2 panels featuring even higher efficiency and greater performance characteristics than current models. Available for order now and shipping to the U.S. market beginning next month, the new series ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Details on LG’s next generation NeON 2 solar panels (shipping next month)

    LG Business Solutions is launching a new generation of solar modules in the United States – the latest LG NeON 2 panels featuring even higher efficiency and greater performance characteristics than current models. Available for order now and shipping to the U.S. market beginning next month, the new series ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sunpower spin-off Maxeon hypes new line of bifacial solar panels for large-scale plants

    Maxeon Solar Technologies, the planned spin-off from SunPower Corp., is bursting out of the gate with a new line of bifacial SunPower Performance 5 panels for large-scale power plant applications. Performance 5 panels will be commercialized and begin delivery in the fourth quarter of 2020. Among the first products toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Good news: NABCEP solar certifications now eligible for GI Bill benefits

    Exam fees for solar industry credentials are now eligible for reimbursement under the GI Bill thanks to work done by The Solar Foundation, the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP), and other partners in the Solar Ready Vets Network. With this approval from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Renewable energy now provides a quarter of all U.S. electricity

    Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) produced significantly more electricity than either coal or nuclear power during the first five months of 2020, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). In May alone, renewable sources accounted for moreRead More — Solar Builder magazine