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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Microdrones as a service? Professional drone LiDAR and surveying more accessible than ever

    Microdrones launched mdaaS (Microdrones as a Service) to make its survey equipment and solutions accessible to a broader market of surveyors and geomatics professionals. Could be a handy tool in the solar development toolbelt. MdaaS introduces drone surveying solutions, including everything needed to do drone LiDAR and surveying the rightRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Structural Solutions: Challenging solar sites solved by mounting and racking systems

    Giant, sprawling solar projects on flat landscapes are no longer the norm. For solar energy to proliferate across the country, PV systems need to affix to various unfriendly environments — rough terrains, oddly shaped parcels, confined city corners, obstructed roofs and so on. Luckily, there are more solutions for solvingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Toledo Solar opens first U.S.-based cadmium telluride solar PV panel plant

      Leading a $30 million initiative, The Atlas Venture Group has formed a new company that manufactures cadmium telluride photovoltaic (CdTePV) solar panels in Toledo, Ohio. Toledo Solar, Inc., will begin shipping its Tier 1 panels to customers worldwide in June, and they already have over $800 million in purchaseRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New Columbia Solar closes huge tax equity deal to finance Washington D.C. PV projects

    New Columbia Solar, a Washington, D.C., independent power producer, closed a $40 million tax equity partnership with Franklin Park Infrastructure to finance DC-based solar projects throughout 2020 and 2021. This investment is the largest known tax equity investment dedicated explicitly to solar projects in the District of Columbia. With overRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Quinbrook launches new solar development arm, Primergy Solar

    Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a specialist investor in renewable energy infrastructure, launched Primergy Solar this week, a new portfolio company that will focus on acquiring, developing and operating distributed and utility-scale solar PV and battery storage projects across North America. “The industry is recognizing the increasingly important role that solar-plus-battery storageRead More — Solar Builder magazine