Tag: News

  • Solect Energy expands into Rhode Island

      Solect Energy, a full-service commercial-scale solar company in Massachusetts, is ready to spread its wings and expand into Rhode Island. Solect has operated as a solar developer, installer and services provider in Massachusetts since 2009, and has completed a number of projects in Rhode Island to date. The company will maintainRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • UpSolar makes PV module financing available via lending platform Wunder Capital

    Wunder Capital and UpSolar America announced a partnership that will bring flexible-term equipment financing to UpSolar’s PV customers. Wunder Capital is a financial technology company that provides financing to solar projects throughout the country. Based in Boulder, Colo., Wunder allows accredited individuals, trusts, family offices, foundations, hedge funds and pension funds to investRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Inaction on net metering policy is killing solar industry, jobs in Massachusetts

    What happened to the power of job creation as a political tool? States and local jurisdictions seem to hang on to industries like coal, oil and fracking despite their potential harm to the environment and choose to rarely implement regulations that might adversely affect them because, you know: JOBS! Well,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Check out this Toledo Zoo solar site — featured at EPA’s Ohio Brownfield Conference

      Installing solar in a brownfield is just a big win for everyone, so it makes sense that the EPA’s Ohio Brownfield Conference 2016 from April 6 – 7 will be showcasing the Toledo Zoo’s solar array. We have a lot of photos below. The presentation will focus on theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Goodyear facility completes 1-MW install with Yaskawa-Solectria inverters

      Three-phase, transformerless PVI 28TL inverters from Yaskawa – Solectria Solar were installed at the Goodyear Rubber Manufacturing Facility in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. The 1-MW solar array is comprised of over 3,000 solar modules powered by 33 Solectria PVI 28TL inverters and cover the main manufacturing plant and five parking canopies. TheRead More — Solar Builder magazine