Tag: Attack the Tariff
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Power factor boost: Make sure to maximize revenue in design, data monitoring
Remember the Seinfeld episode where the rental car company took Jerry’s reservation, but still didn’t have a car for him? “You know how to take the reservation, you just don’t know how to hold the reservation. And that’s really the most important part: the holding. Anybody can just take them.” That’sRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar carport developers find low-cost opportunity despite the tariffs
“But whatever the reason [for the tariff], the consequences probably won’t be severe. The solar revolution is happening so fast that the tariff will make little difference.” — Noah Smith, Bloomberg. This quote from Bloomberg is certainly true, but the immediate effect has unquestionably caused some projects that were “onRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Saving costs with large-scale string inverter design, part 1
String inverters are now a staple of the commercial and industrial and small utility-scale segments, which was solely the domain of central inverters once upon a time. The trend started about six years ago when string inverters souped-up to 1,000 volts and developers and EPCs saw the value in chasingRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Crowd Sourced: Details on a plan for drastic cost reductions, wide deployment of community-scale solar
Community solar to this point has been more of a riddle than a segment. Generally referring to shared solar development that accepts capital from and provides output credit to subscribers and other investors, the potential of the community solar segment is massive. Removing roof and space constraints from the equation,Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Attack the Tariff launches in June to highlight solar industry ideas, innovations
Projections show decreases in solar installations and job growth for the next four years because of the #TrumpTariffs. The good news is: the solar industry thrives at squashing projections, and we at Solar Builder would like to help in that effort. Starting in June, we are launching a mini-series onlineRead More — Solar Builder magazine