Tag: News
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After 75 years in electrical contracting, Baker Electric sees record growth thanks to solar
Baker Electric is reporting record growth for the company based on the success of its utility, commercial and residential solar businesses. Baker, which provides comprehensive pre-construction services and the planning, coordination, design/build, in-house electrical engineering and project management of any size project, showed a 202 percent YOY (2014 – 2015)Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Details on New York’s first solar school project
New York keeps the solar news coming. The New York Institute for Special Education in the Bronx will be the site of the state’s first solar schools project and will have solar panel arrays installed thanks to a power purchase agreement with SolarCity. This public-private partnership is the first suchRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Science nerds: New way of seeing electrons cool off discovered, has implications for solar cells
You care about solar technology, so it is possible you are a science nerd. This is OK to admit, and as one, you will find this interesting: Two University of California, Riverside, assistant professors of physics are among a team of researchers that have developed a new way of seeingRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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SEPA comments on Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization funding
The solar industry is ready to expand at a ridiculous rate, but if the grid lags behind, progress will fall short of potential. Hopefully, the Department of Energy’s latest announcement of up to $220 million in new funding will keep grid modernization moving the right way. The funding is forRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar FlexRack appoints new CEO
The Board of Directors of Northern States Metals, a full service provider of custom-designed, engineered and extruded aluminum products and owner of Solar FlexRack, a ground mount solar racking system to the commercial and utility scale solar industry, appointed Jeff Gwinnell as the company’s new president and CEO. Gwinnell will alsoRead More — Solar Builder magazine