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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Sunnova adds LONGi Solar to its approved vendor list

    Sunnova Energy Corp. has added LONGi Solar as an approved vendor for residential solar modules. Through this new partnership, Sunnova’s network of local installers can offer both style and substance to residential customers across the United States with LONGi’s 60-cell LR6-60PB family of black-on-black modules with power density up toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Florida Power & Light will install ’30 million solar panels’ by 2030 — how does this stack up in the Southeast?

    Florida Power & Light Company is the largest energy company in the United States as measured by retail electricity produced and sold, serving more than five million customer accounts or an estimated 10 million+ people across the state of Florida. The investor-owned utility announced plans to install 30 million solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Inside the upgrades to the most powerful microinverter on the market (now shipping)

    Today’s solar systems require a more robust communication architecture to manage significantly more data points and in-field software updates, and this need was the driving force behind APsystems’s newest microinverter, the QS1, which is now shipping in the U.S. Despite being the most powerful microinverter you’ll find on the market,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Data center energy consumption makes a strong case for solar

    A recent report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees above preindustrial levels by 2040. Fortunately, many companies that generate huge amounts of electricity, including dataRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SolarRoofHook continues to evolve, rebrands as QuickBOLT

    In response to the housing crisis of 2008, Quickscrews launched its first ever non-woodworking division: SolarRoofHook. Its team helped lead the charge to build a new market in solar residential mounting hardware. In 2012, the company’s received a patent for its QuickBOLT, securing ownership of the technology. Seven years later,Read More — Solar Builder magazine