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  • Residential Mounting and Racking Buyer’s Guide 2020

    For this year’s Residential Mounting and Racking Buyer’s Guide, we asked residential rooftop mounting and rail system providers to tell us exactly how one of their systems installs and what the advantages might be for certain roofs and solar installation companies. Here is what they had to say. SunModo’s NanoMountRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • FYI: Solar Investment Tax Credit safe harbor provision extended to Oct. 15

    New guidance from the Treasury Department confirms that the safe harbor provisions for the solar Investment Tax Credit will be extended until Oct. 15 as a result of the pandemic, giving solar companies more time to qualify for the important credit. IRS Notice 2020-41 provides an additional year for renewableRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar Data Systems brings iPLON India’s utility-scale PV monitoring tech to the United States

    Solar Data Systems Inc., an official provider of Solar-Log hardware-agnostic energy monitoring and management, has teamed up with iPLON India to offer its solar PV monitoring systems, controllers, and Total Life Cycle Management solutions in the U.S. for large-scale/utility solar projects. This is a big move by Solar Data SystemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Bifacial solar site enhancer Terra Pave Albedo is an American-Made Solar Prize finalist

    Terra Pave Albedo, made available via Beckett Solar Energy, (something we reported on here), was named a finalist in the AMERICAN-MADE SOLAR PRIZE competition from NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy. Each of the Finalist teams was awarded between $50,000 and $100,000 to be invested in further testing. Eco-EstatesRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar module quality concerns raised in PVEL’s annual PV Module Reliability Scorecard

    The 6th Edition of the PV Module Reliability Scorecard from independent test lab PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) shows several concerning quality, safety trends emerging  amid the rush of new PV module technology hitting the market. Something we were prepped to hear considering our Spring cover feature, “Mounting and Cracking”. “A diverseRead More — Solar Builder magazine