Tag: Featured
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Hoosier Efficiency: Walk through the solar decision-making process with this Indiana homeowner
Bloomington, Ind., isn’t a typical solar energy hub, but homeowner Karim Abdelkader and Alex Jarvis, president of Solar Systems of Indiana, prove that it can be with the right customer and PV solution. The goal for the Abdelkader family was to put panels on both their home and adjacent poolRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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10 solar stats to know from the U.S. Solar Market Insight Report 2017
The U.S. Solar Market Insight Report 2017 Year-in-Review from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) dropped today. Here are the 10 numbers to know. 10.6 GW That’s the new PV capacity in 2017, led by strong growth in the corporate and community solar segments. This is theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Podcast: How NEXTracker ‘decapitated the duck’ with its new solar-plus-storage tracker design
Being the No. 1 tracker worldwide according to GTM Research, I will assume you’ve heard of NEXTracker and its decentralized tracker design by now. What you may not know about is the company’s giant leap into the storage arena with two solutions — NX Drive, a standardized battery enclosure systemRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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DC decisions: Large-scale PV wiring trends are leaving behind DC combiners, cables
All large-scale PV projects will involve a ton of modules and only one grid connection, so all of the aggregation decisions made in between comprise a big chunk of a profitable project pitch. We asked two major eBOS suppliers for the trends leading the way in large-scale PV wiring inRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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PV Pointer: How to optimize PV system structural design for environmental hazards
According to a recent study by SolarPower Europe, new solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity installed worldwide in 2016 reached more than 76 gigawatts. This was largely due to dramatic growth led by the United States and China, with both countries almost doubling the amount of solar added from 2015. Globally thereRead More — Solar Builder magazine