Category: Green Building LEED News
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Award-winning solar site idea: Reducing one pound of steel per foot length of every pile
Subtract one pound of steel per foot length from every pile used to support a solar photovoltaic panel, and you may save millions of pounds — and a lot of money. The idea, which involves changing the way photovoltaic ground mount piles are designed, came from a partnership between HDRRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Duke Energy denied in attempt to raise fixed rates on customers in North Carolina
Duke Energy had big plans in North Carolina for a $13 billion capital reinvestment plan to modernize the grid and requested a $472 million rate hike to fund it (about 8.5 percent on average). The details of the plan and the increased rates didn’t sound too “modern” to North CarolinaRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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PCI Solar develops solar 1.8-MW project at brownfield site in Wasco, Calif.
PCI Solar has completed construction of a 1.8-MW solar array for the City of Wasco in California. The project, developed by Siemens, is part of California’s RES-BCT program, which allows a local government with one or more eligible renewable generating facilities to export energy to the grid and receive generationRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Sky Management installs 600 kW rooftop solar system at N.J.-based Checkpoint Systems
Sky Management Services and Sky Power sent word of a 600 kW rooftop solar installation at Checkpoint Systems Corporate Headquarters in Thorofare, N.J. Sky Management purchased the 104,000 square foot building in March 2016. “Checkpoint has made a commitment to continue the global headquarters in Thorofare, NJ. The year longRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Upgrading C&I rooftop solar installations with spray polyurethane foam
As we have continued our expansion in the commercial and industrial solar market (which includes commercial, industrial, municipal, university, school, cold storage, food-processing and hospital buildings), we’ve discovered something. If commercial building owners are not overly familiar with how solar arrays are installed, they have legitimate concerns about the potentialRead More — Solar Builder magazine