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  • SolarEdge launches new web-based PV system design tool

    SolarEdge Technologies is launching a new Designer tool to enable faster, easier planning of solar energy system designs. The new web-based tool with an intuitive graphical interface helps installers lower PV design costs and increase conversion rates by creating compelling customer proposals. The free Designer tool is part of SolarEdge’sRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Saving costs with large-scale string inverter design, part 2

    During this first week of Attack the Tariff, we are looking at all of the efficiencies to be gained and costs to be saved through large-scale string inverter design. In part 1, we looked at the main economic argument for deploying string inverters in large-scale PV projects. Basically, now thatRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Saving costs with large-scale string inverter design, part 1

    String inverters are now a staple of the commercial and industrial and small utility-scale segments, which was solely the domain of central inverters once upon a time. The trend started about six years ago when string inverters souped-up to 1,000 volts and developers and EPCs saw the value in chasingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Research finds solar PV systems attached with adhesives actually improve building heating and cooling

    Attaching solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to roofs with high-performance adhesives can not only substantially reduce the cost and complexity of installing solar it can keep buildings cooler and reduce air conditioning expenses in the summer as well says new research from the Fraunhofer USA Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE, anRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Hanwha Q CELLS to open solar module manufacturing plant in Georgia

    Hanwha Q CELLS says it is building a new 1.6-GW solar module manufacturing facility in Whitfield County, Ga., that is scheduled to be completed in 2019. This news follows other domestic module moves from JinkoSolar, First Solar and SunPower (acquiring the SolarWorld facility in Oregon) following the imposition of tariffsRead More — Solar Builder magazine