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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Consumers Energy, SunPower team up on Michigan solar pilot program

    In a state expected to grow its solar installations by more than 500 percent this year, Consumers Energy and SunPower are collaborating to offer a full-service home solar solution to 100 Michiganders from 32 counties statewide. As part of the Solar Distributed Generation (DG) Pilot Program, SunPower will provide participatingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • This new residential battery management system is available via Open Source License

    The Digital Microgrid Initiative P.B.C. (DMI), is a public benefit corporation organized to provide clean, reliable and inexpensive electric power to remote areas where grid power is unreliable or non-existent. All profits are reinvested to provide more cost-effective solutions to further the company’s mission of providing clean, low-cost electric power whereRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SolarWorld Americas now decides to join Suniva’s 201 trade petition

    SolarWorld always agreed with the premise that Chinese competition was unfair for the U.S. solar module market, but it sounded to us like SolarWorld was still against Suniva’s 201 petition, noting that it preferred that “any action to be taken against unfair trade shall consider all parts of the U.S. solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Startup Forward Labs says it has a solar roof to compete with (beat?) Tesla’s

    Forward Labs, a Palo Alto-based start-up, has begun taking pre-orders for the company’s new solar roofing system in the San Francisco Bay Area that immediately stands out for its differentiation from Tesla’s solar roof product details. For example, while the current color scheme of other solar roofs is black, theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • This Nevada bill will reinstate net metering, revive residential solar business

    Nevada just can’t make up its mind. After incentivizing residential solar installations, and then turning around and killing them, and then grandfathering early adopters back in, well, the passage of Nevada Assembly Bill 405 (38-2 vote) could reinstate a net metering approach that will once again incentivize residential solar installations.Read More — Solar Builder magazine