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  • Bristol Community College shows off 3.2 MW solar parking canopy

    When students returned this fall to the campus of Bristol Community College they were met with a dazzling sight—New England’s largest solar parking canopy. The 3.2 megawatt solar array, which can produce enough power to meet half of the campus’ energy needs, covers 800 parking spaces on the Fall River,Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Strathcona Solar Initiatives details 140-kW community center project in Ontario

    One of the many virtuous elements of the solar industry is how it has the potential to bring a community together. As an example, we look north to Strathcona Solar Initiatives, a multiple award-winning full service integrator in Eastern Ontario, that recently completed a 140-kW solar  installation on the Virginiatown Community Centre inRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SPI highlight: Seeing the massive rooftop array that powered the convention

    Maybe the coolest, or most appropriate, aspect of Solar Power International this year was the location itself — the Anaheim Convention Center — which is maybe the most eco-friendly and solar-friendly in the country. (The uncoolest, or most ironic, aspect was the single morning of rain Anaheim will probably see allRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Maryland community goes to 100 percent renewable energy, thanks to SunEdison

    SunEdison Inc. announced a partnership with BITHENERGY leading into SPI (obligatory SPI coverage link!) that will help Columbia, Md., to offset 100 percent of its energy use from renewable sources. Columbia now sources 75 percent of its energy from wind renewable energy credits, and 25 percent from a newly completed 2 MW DCRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Exosun to supply solar trackers for huge 146-MW project in Chile

    Exosun, a major provider of solar tracking technologies for utility-scale, ground-mounted solar plants, has been selected by EDF energies Nouvelles, a global market leader in green electricity production, to equip two thirds of a 146 MWp PV plant in the Chilean Atacama desert with its trackers, and to provide aRead More — Solar Builder magazine