Tag: News

  • Meet the Energy Storage Innovation and Champion award winners

    Energy Storage North America (ESNA), the largest gathering of policy, technology and market leaders in energy storage, today announced the winners of this year’s ESNA Innovation and Champion Awards. The ESNA Innovation Awards were presented to three energy storage projects that demonstrated excellence and impact in two categories: Centralized StorageRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SMA promoting a Power + Payday rebate program for solar installers

    SMA announced a new rebate program for its innovative Power+ Solution. With the Power+ Payday, residential installers can receive a $50 pre-paid debit reward card for each Power+ Solution that is installed and registered in Sunny Portal between August 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. Quantities will not be limited.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • OMG Roofing’s new PowerGrip aims to reduce need for solar rooftop ballast

    OMG Roofing Products has introduced PowerGrip Universal, a rooftop attachment anchor for mounting solar racking systems and other products to virtually any commercial roof. PowerGrip Universal is designed to reduce or eliminate the need for ballast in solar racking systems, so there’s less weight, material handling and labor on theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Tigo Skill connects your PV system to Amazon’s Alexa (enter to win one)

    Tigo is now offering its customers the benefits of Amazon Alexa technology via the new Tigo Skill, available on Alexa-enabled products. The Tigo Skill integration allows English- and German-speaking Tigo customers to use their voice to inquire about their PV production or other information collected by Tigo’s SMART website. How does itRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Appeals court eases pathway for utility-scale solar development in North Carolina

    In a unanimous decision issued June 6, 2017, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that the application for issuance of a conditional use permit (CUP) by Innovative Solar 55 LLC to construct a solar farm was wrongfully denied by the Robeson County Board of County Commissioners. This is onlyRead More — Solar Builder magazine