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  • Report: Storage can reduce multifamily housing solar project payback by three years

      A new report demonstrates how battery storage combined with solar systems would lead to significant electric bill savings for both property owners and residents of multifamily affordable rental housing in California. The report is Closing the California Clean Energy Divide, and the findings are particularly important given the recently enactedRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Vermont Technical College adds 100 AllEarth Renewable trackers

    As we noted in a recent issue of Solar Builder, the education sector is primed for solar projects. Here is the latest to cross our news desk: Vermont Technical College has flipped the switch on a new solar farm that is projected to produce nearly 1 million kWh of clean,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New coalition hopes to empower companies to go solar (to deploy 60 GW by 2015)

    Four non-governmental organizations have come together to form the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), a new coalition to empower multinational companies to transform electricity systems with renewable energy. REBA aims to help facilitate and deploy 60 GWs of new corporate renewable energy in the United States by 2025. REBA is ledRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • San Francisco requires all new buildings add solar panels — an energy adviser’s perspective

    San Francisco’s decision to require solar panels on all new buildings starting in 2017 is more evidence of the growing role of rooftop solar in commercial real estate, says Roy Palk, Senior Energy Adviser for national law firm LeClairRyan. “No other major U.S. city has actually required that new buildingsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • PCI Solar to build systems for California school district

    Cinnabar school district, a public school district based in Sonoma County Calif., has chosen PCI Solar as the contractor to build a solar array for Cinnabar Elementary school. The decision to award PCI Solar was made through an RFP process hosted by Terra Verde Renewable Partners. The system to be constructedRead More — Solar Builder magazine