Category: Green Building LEED News
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Sense updates its Solar Home Energy Monitor app to show home vs. grid usage
Sense has updated the Sense app to track how much of a solar home’s energy is powered by the sun right now and how much is coming from the utility or going back to the grid. With this update, solar homeowners who have the Sense Solar Home Energy Monitor canRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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SEIA starts 2020 by reiterating its 20 percent of generation by 2030 goal
When energy and climate analysts look back on the 2020s, they will see a transformed energy landscape dominated by new solar energy generation, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) said in recognition of the start of the Solar+ Decade. “The 2010s were filled with more highs than lows, and theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Four notes on the rise of residential solar loans over third-party owned leases
According to the U.S. residential solar finance update: H2 2019 from Wood Mackenzie, solar loans are officially outpacing leases in the residential solar segment – hitting 55 percent market share in the first half of 2019. This equals 40 percent growth year over year in solar loans. 1. Expanding baseRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar tracker supplier Array Technologies partners with new logistics company
Phoenix Logistics, an affiliate of national private commercial real estate firm Phoenix Investors headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., announced a new multi-state contract with Array Technologies. Phoenix Logistics will provide logistics services to Array for approximately 1 million square feet in Coffeyville, Kansas; Mayville, Wisconsin; and Hooks, Texas. Array is anRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Renewable energy could top natural gas in new capacity added in U.S. in 2019
According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) for the first ten months of 2019, the mix of renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) is on trackRead More — Solar Builder magazine