Category: Green Building LEED News
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San Antonio’s Go Smart Solar wins award for its solar carport projects for Worth & Associates
The City of San Antonio Office of Sustainability has awarded Go Smart Solar and Worth & Associates with the SA Tomorrow Sustainability William R. Sinkin Solar Award for their work installing solar carports and electric vehicle chargers at four area Worth & Associates properties. The award recognizes local programs, projectsRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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As Illinois nears the end of net metering, solar installers make the case that it’s too soon
From the Energy News Network: Solar installers in Ameren Illinois’ territory have hit a key milestone, prompting a regulatory process with high stakes for the future of rooftop solar in the state. Illinois’ 2017 Future Energy Jobs Act calls for replacing retail net metering with a localized value-of-solar rate asRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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As Illinois nears the end of net metering, solar installers make the case that it’s too soon
From the Energy News Network: Solar installers in Ameren Illinois’ territory have hit a key milestone, prompting a regulatory process with high stakes for the future of rooftop solar in the state. Illinois’ 2017 Future Energy Jobs Act calls for replacing retail net metering with a localized value-of-solar rate asRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Humless adds super cool electricity management function to its energy storage system
When the grid shuts down, appliances fight for attention from the power grid. Integrating these different vendor appliances is critical for efficient use of an energy storage system. Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems to interact with each other, so the technical interfaces of each system areRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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The role of inverters in the rise of virtual power plants
A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of distributed energy sources aggregated into a single cloud-based point of control at the utility. When distributed energy generation sources are coupled with storage (like a group of solar homes), greater possibilities for cost reduction and revenue generation emerge. As part ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine