Category: Green Building LEED News
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Massachusetts bill passes to stop Eversource demand charge but doesn’t address net metering
Massachusetts lawmakers passed An Act to Advance Clean Energy yesterday that will pretty much do what it says, with one really important victory for the solar industry, and one potential setback. The victory was a call for Eversource to revise the demand charge it tried to impose (this was theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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North Carolina’s Sunfarm V and VI solar projects find their EPC
McCarthy Building Companies’ Renewable Energy Team was named the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor on the Sunfarm V and VI solar projects, which represent a total of 10 MWac of solar energy in Hertford, N.C. The projects – 5 MWac each – are owned by ET Capital Solar Partner Inc.,Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Protection Plan: Everything you need to know to protect a commercial roof during a PV installation
A long-term, problem-free commercial flat roof solar installation starts with knowing about the roof systems themselves and how to keep them protected. This isn’t easy. For one, there is an alphabet soup of acronyms: PVC, TPO, EPDM, SBS, APP, BUR, PUF, PIB, CSPE, EPS and XPS. The roof industry lingoRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Fresno school district breaks ground on 8.2-MW solar canopy project (and how it got here)
ForeFront Power and Fresno Unified School District broke ground on 8.2-MW of solar parking canopy systems across eight District facilities. This project dates back to Fall 2017, when the School Project for Utility Rate Reduction (SPURR) and Fresno USD conducted a statewide request for proposal process to select the bestRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Fruit wholesaler adds a third PV system to one of its facilities via Borrego Solar
Coast Citrus Distributors, a wholesaler of fruits and vegetables in the United States and Mexico since 1950, completed the latest solar system installation on one of its facilities — a 432 kilowatt (kW) roof-mount solar energy system in Union City, Calif. The company’s solar portfolio also includes a 1.1 megawattRead More — Solar Builder magazine