Tag: project
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Have a drink on solar: Castoro Cellars winery completes 625-kW install
Castoro Cellars has completed an installation of a massive new solar project that will allow the winery to run 100 percent on solar power. The 625-kW installation, which covers nearly three acres, will have an annual production of over 1 million kWh and eliminate an estimated $20,000 per month electricity bill. This marks theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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GRID Alternatives, SunPower bring solar to four low-income Texas homes
About 80 Austin-based employee volunteers from global solar innovator, SunPower, brought the transformative power of solar energy to four low-income families in Austin’s Blackland Neighborhood. Working with national solar nonprofit GRID Alternatives over two days, the volunteers installed four rooftop solar systems totaling 13 kW of generating capacity. The systemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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World’s largest floating solar power plant on the way in Japan
In a joint venture, Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation announced that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has started construction of the world’s largest 13.7-MW floating solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir, managed by the Public Enterprises Agency of Chiba Prefecture in Japan for industrial water services. ScheduledRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Details on New York’s first solar school project
New York keeps the solar news coming. The New York Institute for Special Education in the Bronx will be the site of the state’s first solar schools project and will have solar panel arrays installed thanks to a power purchase agreement with SolarCity. This public-private partnership is the first suchRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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New Mexico, Affordable Solar bring 24-MW of solar to replace coal-fired systems
Solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm Affordable Solar, has partnered with Array Technologies, Inc. (ATI) to bring clean solar energy to thousands of New Mexicans in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas. Industry pioneers Affordable Solar and ATI are both locally owned and operate out of Albuquerque. The SantaRead More — Solar Builder magazine