Tag: Residential Solar

  • Live at Intersolar: Sunrun CEO points toward solar+storage revolution

    Every year, Intersolar North America takes places in San Francisco, which always provides the perfect backdrop for a show that wants to discuss and show the solar industry’s path forward globally. We in America obviously recognize the leadership position San Francisco has taken in solar here, but as we wereRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • sonnen’s new residential storage unit offered at 40 percent lower price

    We’ve had our eye on sonnen since it finally jumped into the U.S. residential market last year. The company’s latest announcement, just in time for Intersolar, is a new energy storage at a significantly reduced price: up to 40 percent the cost of its other products. The sonnenBatterie eco compactRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Stellar Solar offering $2.99 per watt residential deal

    Stellar Solar, one of California’s leading commercial and residential solar installers since 1998 is now offering residential solar at $2.99 per watt, their first move of several that will cut the cost of going solar by up to 30% in most cases and enable more homeowners than ever to powerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How California’s Rule 21 inverter requirements expand grid capacity, limit energy (revenue) generation

    A multi-year effort has been ongoing in California to update technical requirements for connecting Distributed Energy Resources (DER) to the grid, known as Rule 21. The experience of Germany was cited as one reason to take action. In Germany, significant grid destabilization problems arose when high penetration levels of solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Details on CyboEnergy’s Dual-Output Off-Grid inverter strategy

    Rapid deployment of distributed PV is causing new issues for the grid that will require some new regulatory considerations and new product solutions. CyboEnergy thinks it has one such solution with the release of its Dual-Output Off-Grid CyboInverter that can run two distinct types of AC loads such as anRead More — Solar Builder magazine