Category: Green Building LEED News
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This Swedish PV production equipment provider is expanding into direct sales of solar roofs
Swedish solar energy technology leader Midsummer launched a new energy producing metal sheet roof “Midsummer solar roofs”. This signals a broader effort to expand from mainly selling production equipment for thin film solar panels into the end market for solar panels for various roofs, facades, vehicles etc through in-house productionRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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POWERHOME Solar to install solar panels at Cleveland Indians’ baseball stadium
Solar energy provide POWERHOME Solar will begin installing solar panels on the aptly named Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians, in the upcoming months. The Indians continue to be among the industry leaders in taking a proactive approach to supporting various environmental initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint atRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar Marketplace Report shows the power of one ITC and the weakness of another
The semiannual Solar Marketplace Intel Report from EnergySage shows that solar system costs continue to fall, despite the Trump tariffs, which so far, have not even produced more domestic module procurement. Here are four takeaways from this latest report, which is based on millions of transaction-level data points generated withinRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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IHS Markit: Global solar PV market will return to double-digit growth in 2019
The global solar photovoltaic (PV) market is set to bounce back from single-digit growth in 2018 to 25 percent growth in 2019, reaching 129 gigawatts of solar installations, according to global business information provider IHS Markit. This revived growth comes mainly from markets outside of China, which are forecast toRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Nevada has turned around its solar industry, led the nation in clean energy job growth in 2018
Remember when Nevada randomly tried to kill its residential solar industry? Since then, Nevada has reversed course and been a clean energy policy leader. As the Nevada Legislature considers legislation to advance clean energy, including a bill for the state to get half of its energy from renewable sources, aRead More — Solar Builder magazine