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Tag: Residential Solar

  • Do you need a solar snow management system?

    In North America, over 75 percent of the roofs installed on residential construction projects are asphaltic composition shingles. If you live in an area that receives snow and ice, and your roofing material is composition shingle, you’ve probably never experienced a significant roof avalanche. The reason for this is theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Roof Tech adds 72-cell module to residential rail-less applications

    Roof Tech Inc., a leader in rail-less rooftop PV mounting systems, has added engineering to support 72-cell PV modules, or modules up to 21 sq. ft. The new engineering data was added to the company’s already extensive engineering reports created by Starling Madison Lofquist, Inc., a third-party firm that createdRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar franchisor REPOWER appoints SVP to build new partnerships

    Founded in 2007 in Livermore, Calif., REPOWER by Solar Universe is a residential solar integrator that offers franchising opportunities. The company operates a network of 40 offices and has installed more than 50 MW of solar to date. Across the network, more than 1,000 team members are dedicated to delivering clean solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sungevity expands online solar platform into Rhode Island

    Sungevity is a technology-driven solar energy company focused on making it easy and affordable for homeowners and business owners to benefit from solar power. They do this by leveraging proprietary remote solar design technology to deliver a quote without a site visit and provide prospective customers with visibility to potential savings onRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Power optimizers v. microinverters: What’s different about these approaches to PV architecture?

    There are three main types of inverter topologies currently used in PV systems: traditional string inverters, microinverters and power optimizers. Since the traditional string inverter topology has a number of significant drawbacks, the industry is moving forward to distributed PV system architecture. The two leading technologies for distributed PV systemRead More — Solar Builder magazine