Tag: News
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Battery showcase: Four solar + storage solutions for your next project
Recommending a battery to a customer in a solar + storage project is no less complicated than recommending a particular solar array solution. Depending on customer goals of low initial cost, ease of maintenance, frequency of use, depth of discharge, source of recharge energy, longevity and warranty, however, choices narrowRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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What makes a highly rated residential solar installer? Here’s three common attributes
SolarReviews.com has analyzed consumer data from more than 3,500 solar installations and has identified these three characteristics that they think define the most successful residential solar installers as expressed by the customers themselves. The most successful residential solar installers, based on information provided to the site by consumers themselves, are: EitherRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Five more community solar gardens now online in Minnesota
The community solar movement in Minnesota keeps on growing. During the previous four months, five new community solar gardens have been brought online in the southeastern part of the state, located as far north as Benton County and as far south as Dakota County. They are part of a largerRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Puerto Rico recovery: This solar + storage microgrid helps power off-grid school hurt by hurricane
A solar + battery storage microgrid at S.U. Matrullas, a K through 9 school that educates over 150 students in the remote town of Orocovis, Puerto Rico was commissioned via collaboration with Pura Energía and energy storage provider sonnen. This project serves as a model for the resiliency created byRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Largest shopping mall solar install in California possible because of bifacial PV panels
The largest commercial rooftop solar PV installation in Hanford, Calif., and the largest solar system to be installed, to date, on a shopping mall in the state, was completed via Blue Sky Utility, a California-based renewable energy developer, and Passco Companies, a national real estate investment firm. The 1.62-MW commercialRead More — Solar Builder magazine