Category: Green Building LEED News
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Engineering Insight: Inside Solar FlexRack’s second generation tracker
Amid the solar market’s mad dash to offer tracker solutions, Solar FlexRack has been taking its time. The company launched its first offering, the TDP Turnkey Tracker in early 2016, with the focus on a total solution. In contrast to competitors that were providing stand-alone solutions, Solar FlexRack offered aRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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SMA America offers Sunny Tripower CORE1 inverter in two new commercial power classes
SMA America has new comprehensive commercial solar solutions now available for ordering. SMA’s popular Sunny Tripower CORE1 inverter is getting an upgrade with two new power classes. In addition to the currently available 50-kW CORE1 model, a new higher power 62.5-kW model is optimized for large projects utilizing higher efficiencyRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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How a Virginia Tech researcher plans to use smart inverters to change the grid
The U.S. power grid, after faithfully delivering electricity to our neighborhoods for generations, is facing significant changes to how it operates — thanks to solar installations, wind farms, new energy storage systems and electric vehicles. As utilities meet the challenges of incorporating distributed energy sources on the low- and medium-voltageRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Financial floodgate: This new exchange opens up a $5 billion C&I solar financing network
The C&I solar stalemate — with massive development potential on one side, and available but complex financing on the other – might finally be ending thanks to a clearer path to action. That path is the first finance exchange platform for C&I solar, which will allow developers and installers toRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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LG Electronics to open new solar module assembly plant in Alabama
LG Electronics announced plans for a new solar module assembly plant in Huntsville, Ala. Starting in early 2019, the new plant is expected to produce 500 megawatts of high-performance solar panels annually. The new factory will create about 160 new full-time jobs, increasing LG’s Huntsville employment by 60 percent toRead More — Solar Builder magazine