Tag: projects
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Micro Tiny Home is a Minimalist’s Dream
Italian architect and engineer Leonardo Di Chiara recently designed and built a prototype of a micro tiny home, which is seriously small yet still wonderfully functional. The so-called aVOID tiny house measures just 96 sq ft (9 sq) and is easily towable. Given its diminutive size, it also presents some unique downsizing solutions. The home…
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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
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Holland to Get Its Own Vertical Forest
Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale idea has really taken off. Now the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands will get it’s own vertical forest tower. Similar buildings have already been built in Paris, France and Lausanne, Switzerland. The tower in Holland will provide affordable inner-city social housing. The so-called Trudo Vertical Forest will be 246 ft (75…