Tag: Featured
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The Holistic Home: We peer into the future of home energy generation, usage
The mid-term growth of the U.S. residential solar-plus-storage market will be nothing short of phenomenal, as the seamless melding of generation, storage and energy management emerges in single, overarching systems. Yes, we might finally be headed there — the 1950s vision of the all-electric GE kitchen of the future, butRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Thin-Film in 2016: Don’t look now, but thin-film PV is positioned for growth
A narrative has formed around thin-film PV modules that doesn’t totally match the reality. Initially neck and neck with crystalline silicon as the solar industry grew in the ‘90s, some high-profile big bets, headlined by Solyndra, did not pay off. We won’t rehash that old territory, but where previous technologyRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Driving pile in Minnesota: How Landwehr handles longer than normal piles up north
Large-scale solar projects are becoming more common in Minnesota, and as you might expect, installation of these projects requires a different approach than large-scale projects in those popular desert climates. An example would be a new 5 MW AC Project south of the Twin Cities. On approximately 20 acres, twoRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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2016 Project of the Year Editor’s Choice: No Energy Left Behind
We say it every year: When it comes to solar projects, we are all winners. We already announced the winners of our 2016 Project of the Year vote, but we at Solar Builder liked a bunch of the other submissions too. Here is the fourth and final entry in our series ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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PV Pointers: How dynamic systems increase the value of a solar project
The primary function of solar will always be to generate energy from the sun. Yet we are seeing impressive advances in how solar interacts with the environment in which it is installed. Evolutions in design approaches and integrating intelligent, connected software is opening up a new era for increasingly valuableRead More — Solar Builder magazine