Category: Green Building LEED News
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7X Energy sells late-stage 100-MW solar project in Texas to Duke Energy
7X Energy, a leader in solar development in the U.S., announced the sale of the 100-megawatt (MW) Lapetus Solar Energy Project in Andrews County, Texas, to Duke Energy Renewables. 7X, the original owner and developer, will transition the last stages of development of the solar project to Duke Energy, which alsoRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Institutional investors to double renewable energy allocations globally over next five years, but hurdles remain
Institutional investors plan to almost double portfolio allocations to renewable energy over the next five years. An estimated $210 billion from investors surveyed for a new report launched by Octopus today, is expected to flow into the asset class over the period. The report, The green investor: why institutional investingRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Former SolarWorld U.S. production facility now producing SunPower P-Series panels
In October 2018, SunPower acquired the SolarWorld Americas facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, making good on its commitment to invest in American manufacturing. Just four months later, SunPower is assembling its 19 percent efficient Performance Series solar panel (P19 or P-Series) for commercial customers in the U.S. factory, leveraging U.S.-made automatedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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REC Solar hypes new solar panel as its most power dense yet
REC Group, the largest European brand for solar panels, is hyping a new solar panel making its debut at Intersolar Europe. REC says this will be the world’s most powerful solar panel for rooftop customers, emerging from REC’s half-cut cell technology. The new panel combines heterojunction cells (HJT) with advancedRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Lead-acid replacement Tydrolyte named an emerging battery technology by a national battery organization
Tydrolyte has been selected as one of the top emerging battery technologies of 2019 by the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt). The novel electrolyte is a less toxic drop-in replacement for sulfuric acid in lead batteries that enables significant performance improvements. Lead acid batteries are the oldest andRead More — Solar Builder magazine