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  • Is Standardized Solar Permitting Our Next Industry Breakthrough?

    Cutting costs has been the key to solar’s rapid expansion this decade. The lion’s share of cost reductions in the solar industry has come from reductions in module prices. The $4 per watt you’d have paid in 2006 just for modules alone will now get the entire residential solar systemRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Confirming the Strength of Residential Roof Structures for Solar Installations

    The rooftop solar PV permitting process involves a number of steps and varies greatly, even between neighboring cities. Jurisdictions follow state or national codes, but each may interpret the codes in their own way and insert additional requirements. In some locations, a rooftop structural analysis conducted by a professional engineerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Mounting Tech Trends: Slimming Down on Parts, Problems, and Prices

    The story of solar mounting technology is a familiar one, in which original technology is slowly replaced by newer options that improve upon certain aspects of the original. Where the initial equipment was focused on establishing a viable product to build an industry, the next wave of trends works toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Mounting Systems: MVPs of Industry Progress

    Welcome to the 2015 edition of the Solar Builder Mounting Guide. Within this year’s guide, we look at all of the advancements in mounting technology currently driving the industry forward and what additional trends are on the horizon; we discuss the effects of severe weather and what you can doRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Report: Clean Energy Investment Shifting to Developing Nations

    Clean energy was always a universal proposition, but certain parts of the globe just weren’t ready or able to make the investments necessary. According to some new research, that might be ready to change. The report, Power Shifts—Emerging Clean Energy Markets, from the Pew Charitable Trusts, examines clean energy investmentRead More — Solar Builder magazine