Tag: Featured
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The rise of FranklinWH in home energy storage
The home energy storage (ESS) marketplace is crowded, including brands familiar to solar installers (SolarEdge, Enphase, Canadian Solar) and to homeowners (Panasonic, Duracell, Generac, Briggs & Stratton), as well as roughly 1 zillion more. When a completely new name like FranklinWH made its initial U.S. rollout at Intersolar 2022, touting a true “whole home solution,”……
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PV Pro Cures | CHERP wants to build mini U.S. solar module factories and a circular economy
Solar module procurement has been precarious the last few years. The Section 201 tariffs of the Trump Administration. The Auxin petition to expand the bounds of the anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariffs. The allegations of forced labor in China’s Xinjiang province and the resulting Withhold Release Order (WRO) and Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act……
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Stracker Solar: Passion leads to prosperity for dual-axis tracker manufacturer
The roots of Stracker Solar were formed in the mid-1970s when founder and COO Jeff Sharpe began designing and installing “bread box” solar water heaters with his father in Southern California’s San Joaquin Valley. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ashland, Oregon, Stracker Solar grew out of the community-based energy engineering business Sharpe founded a……
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Differences between SLA and LiFEPO4 batteries
This piece was contributed by Lawrence Zhou, CEO of Nature’s Generator Batteries are central to the advancement of clean energy, but concise, accurate information about the pros and cons of different battery types can be hard to come by. For that reason, Nature’s Generator put together a quick primer on two of the most significant……
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Industry audit finds problematic solar racking designs at RE+ 2022
Mature industries are characterized by well-developed engineering practices, standards, quality management processes and highly reliable systems. The solar PV industry has generally not achieved this level of maturity in its structures and fastener technology. During the 2022 RE+ event in Anaheim, Calif., this past September, a research team walked the Exhibit Hall and found many……