Tag: Featured
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Why ‘Maine won’t wait’ on climate action and what the rush means for solar developers
In 2019, Maine’s Governor Janet Mills addressed the United Nations, laying out a plan for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2045. When compared to Maine’s sister states that have been working for the last decade to establish renewable energy markets to assist with reaching similar carbon neutrality goals,Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Lock that box: Deadly hazard posed by switch disconnects in PV systems addressed in NEC 2020
While we’ve all been busy figuring out the various ways to comply with NEC 2017 and 2020 rapid system shutdown, NEC 2020 includes another PV system-specific code update that’s arguably more of an everyday potential safety hazard, specifically for children. Highlighted by world-renowned electric code guru Mike Holt in aRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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The Pitch: How carbon improves flooded lead-acid batteries in off-grid solar with Rolls Battery
On this edition of The Pitch, we look at how applying a carbon additive in traditional flooded lead-acid batteries significantly improves their performance in off-grid solar applications. Here to give us the details is Jeff Myles, marketing manager for Rolls Battery. First we get into the science behind the carbonRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Boosts and boasts: The latest data on solar tracker + bifacial PV module production yields
Improving the electricity yield in photovoltaic solar energy long has been a game of incremental additions of new technology. Over the past few years, bifacial panel adoption has been tested at a utility scale, and designs have been refined to the point that a high single-digit gain from a single-axis trackerRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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If you’re not concerned with utility-scale shrinkage, you should be
As greater numbers of utility-scale solar projects are built on challenging topography that includes hilly terrain, shrinkage in utility-scale layouts is becoming increasingly common and more problematic. Shrinkage can be best described as the amount the total length of a tracker or fixed-tilt row is shortened in a top downRead More — Solar Builder magazine