Tag: Featured
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What you need to know about the DOE’s Energy Markets and Reliability Report
On the request of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, the Department of Energy conducted a big study on grid resilience and reliability. You can flip through the 181-page PDF here, or you can breeze through these handy bullet points below, which include our own two cents per kWh. Choose wisely. PerryRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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How one PV module manufacturer wants to meet the needs of homeowners
For all of the intrinsic value of solar, selling it on a wide-scale to homeowners might depend more on stuff like emotional appeal and aesthetics. This is driving the influx of black PV panels coming onto the market. LG’s NeON series comes in black. Panasonic just released all-black versions ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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How to find the perfect solar + storage projects (start by looking at the rates)
At the heart of a solar + storage system is a battery, but that heart can’t beat without its brain — the software layer telling it how to operate. For your customers, regardless of battery manufacturer, the software brain is driven by three possible value streams. Peak demand shaving. ThisRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar tracking system advances: What’s the impact over the life of a PV plant?
The goal of a solar tracking system is to boost the lifetime energy production of a given site, somewhere between 20 to 30 percent over a 30-year period. But this is not a “set-it-and-forget-it” proposition. Today’s tracker systems are more advanced than ever before, but they require an operations andRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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How do we solve the utility identity crisis? SEPA pushes for ideas
Disruption within the electric power sector has led to a changing, and sometimes unclear, role for U.S. utilities — uncertainty that has resulted in delayed investment in critical infrastructure for a 21st century grid and, sometimes, an unnecessary rift between utilities and renewable energy industries. So, instead of mapping outRead More — Solar Builder magazine