Tag: Featured
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How standardized solutions for rapid shutdown mitigate supply chain issues
Between COVID-19 and escalating trade tensions, especially between the U.S. and China, the global supply chain is experiencing a period of unsteadiness. But rethinking how the supply chain looks can be a challenge, especially for sectors in which the supply chain has been built up over the course of manyRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Battery capacity vs. operating temperature: Sizing a storage system when ambient temperatures vary
One of the most common questions asked by PV Installers, as well as customers, is how to properly size and charge a battery bank in places where ambient temperatures may vary considerably throughout the year. Temperature affects battery performance in two ways. The standard capacity rating of a battery isRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Rensselaer Lab has a new approach for testing smart inverter grid communications
The state of New York has plans to hit a 100 percent clean electric grid by 2040, with the larger goal of eventual economy-wide carbon-neutrality. New York’s “Green New Deal” will require a multitude of industry and academic research initiatives aimed at making that effort a tangible reality. The NewRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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It is time: Enter your best solar projects in our 2020 Project of the Year Awards
If you completed a solar project this year — the year of the coronavirus — congrats. That is no small feat. Reward yourself and all involved by submitting that project in Solar Builder’s Project of the Year Awards, where we highlight the most outstanding PV projects in the solar industryRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Is COVID-19 solar’s greatest challenge? Long Island’s solar pioneer puts it in perspective
Pivot. Reimagine yourself. Adjust. Plan B. Words and phrases such as these are all too familiar to those of us in the ever-changing solar industry. In the near-20 years of running my solar energy installation company, I’ve frequently faced the unexpected or seemingly unmanageable. So, when the COVID-19 crisis hit,Read More — Solar Builder magazine