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Tag: Residential Solar

  • Michigan PSC doubles rooftop solar cap, but cuts payback rate

    The Michigan Public Service Commission issued its Order in the Consumers Energy rate case last week, and the result is fairly disappointing from a solar and public point of view, and it also falls short of the recommendations in Judge Sally Wallace’s October Proposal for Decision. The positive: Consumers hasRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New DER planning model shows why local solar-for-all costs less

    The grid of the not-so-distant future will be clean, distributed and co-optimized. What that means is that generation and other resources on transmission and distribution lines will be designed and built to work together for maximum efficiency and savings for individual customers and the system as a whole. The FederalRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • CleanSpark, Symmetric Energy team up to build residential, commercial microgrids in California

    Advanced software and controls company CleanSpark partnered with Symmetric Energy to target new microgrid projects in Northern California. The objective will be to provide reliable back-up energy or off-grid power using a combination of solar PV and energy storage for both commercial and estate-level residential microgrids. Symmetric is designing solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Residential solar segment beats COVID recovery projection in third quarter

    U.S. solar companies installed 3.8 gigawatts (GW) of new solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in Q3 2020, a 9% increase from Q2 installations as the industry experienced a recovery from the worst impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q4 2020 report, released today by theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • At a glance: NEP rapid shutdown product, 800-W microinverter

    Northern Electric Power Technology Inc. (NEP)’s PVG-4 is an easily installed standalone rapid shutdown product, proving NEC-2017 and NEC-2020 compliance at lower cost and with some added safety features. Cool things to note: You can connect four PV modules to one device to achieve that lowest cost (with three to oneRead More — Solar Builder magazine