Tag: News
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What is next for the solar industry? Executives share their thoughts
Get a group of solar industry leaders on a stage in 2016, and all discussions tend to veer into the existential. This is our takeaway from this year’s Solar Power International conference, which took place in Las Vegas, Sept. 12-15. Obviously everyone on those stages agreed that solar power shouldRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Top 7 Solar Projects of the Week (Oct. 17 – Oct. 21)
Mt. Tom Solar to be one of the largest in Massachusetts Mt. Tom Solar, LLC, a subsidiary of ENGIE North America, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 5.76 megawatt solar farm on the property of the former coal-fired Mt. Tom Power Station in Holyoke, Mass. Beginning in January 2017, Mt.Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Ideal Power completed prototypes for its innovative B-TRAN semiconductor
Ideal Power Inc. is an innovator of power conversion technologies and just announced that its semiconductor foundry partner has successfully completed prototypes of its Bi-Directional Bi-Polar Junction TRANsistor (B-TRAN). We dove into the unique properties of its B-TRAN semiconductor when it was first introduced. Ideal Power holds over 20 patents onRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Report: Rooftop solar provides even more value than retail rate metering
Net metering is often seen as a good deal for solar installers and their customers, but a negative for utilities and their customers — the non-solar taxpayers in the community. It is said that those others are subsidizing all the great benefits the solar adopters receive. Is it true? A reportRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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TimberRock explains 3 achievements of new energy storage platform REH-FLEX
TimberRock Energy Solutions, the R&D and product development subsidiary of TimberRock Advanced Energy, announced a new energy storage platform called REH-FLEX. Although solar panels, electric vehicles and battery storage are transforming the electrical grid into a bi-directional energy network, the inverters used to move energy in-between these resources and theRead More — Solar Builder magazine