Category: Green Building LEED News

  • California Gov. signs bills to incentivize energy storage installation

    California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 700 by Senator Scott Wiener (D-SF) keeping California in the driver’s seat of building a reliable and safe clean energy future. “If we are going to get to 100% clean energy, we need to be using solar power every hour of theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • BayWa partners with top solar distributor in Mexico for Latin America expansion

    As part of its ongoing global expansion and investment in North America, global renewable energy developer, service provider and wholesaler, BayWa r.e., is partnering with Mexico’s leading solar distributor, DMSolar. Established in 2012, DMSolar has quickly become the country’s leading wholesaler of PV products – and contributed to Mexico’s positionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SimpliPhi debuts new scalable energy storage unit to tailor project-specific voltage

      Building on nearly a decade of successful manufacturing and global deployments of high performance batteries, SimpliPhi is introducing a dynamic and scalable PHI High Voltage energy storage solution for commercial and industrial applications that offers the ability to tailor voltage, capacity and power output for project-specific performance. It supportsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Outback eliminates need for charge controllers with latest solar+storage product

    OutBack Power Technologies, Inc., launched the latest addition to its line of solar plus storage solutions at this year’s Solar Power International (SPI) convention in Anaheim, California. The SkyBox True Hybrid Energy System combines the benefits of grid-tied with the independence of off-grid, allowing system installers and owners to takeRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • EDF Renewables, EnterSolar form strategic partnership for C&I solar services

    EDF Renewables North America, a renewable energy developer, and EnterSolar, a provider of distributed generation solar solutions, formed a strategic partnership with EDF Renewables acquiring a 50 percent interest in EnterSolar. Together, the companies will offer C&I customers one of the most comprehensive arrays of behind-the-meter service. The partnership leveragesRead More — Solar Builder magazine