Tag: News
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Which utilities in the South are the most solar friendly? The Southern Environmental Law Center tells us
How do utilities grade our in terms of their solar friendliness? The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) launched a new website to tell us. The Rates of Solar website is an interactive site that provides simple, straight-forward information about how utilities across the Southeast United States are treating customers withRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Department of Energy awards $1.25 million to kWh Analytics to better quantify degradation rates
Understanding degradation rates is important for the PV industry, along the entire value chain. According to the 2018 PV Innovation Roadmap, a DOE-conducted survey of 89 companies and researchers, better understanding of the degradation rate was cited as the single biggest need under “Reliability and Durability,” which itself was theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Duke Energy launches plan to own, operate non-residential solar sites in North Carolina
Duke Energy is jumping into the non-residential solar business. The company recently filed to be a certified solar lessor with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) and plans to build, own and operate on-site solar facilities. DECER is not financially supported by either Duke Energy Carolinas or Duke Energy Progress,Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Internet of Energy update: Google, Stanford, SunTech to collaborate on new DER, customer load controllers
SunTech Drive is part of a new collaboration with both Stanford University and Google that is tied to the Department of Energy’s NODES (Networks of Distributed Energy Systems) initiative. The objective is to coordinate and control consumer loads and distributed energy resources (DERs) out to the absolute edge of theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar Foundation awarded $2 million to fund solar apprenticeships for military veterans
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) selected The Solar Foundation to receive a $2 million award to support its efforts in building an advanced and highly qualified solar workforce. The standout feature of this new program is its support of solar industry apprenticeships for hundreds ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine