Tag: Featured

  • Solar and tariffs for all: Recapping the Biden administration’s busy Earth Month

    Earth Month has been full of solarized news from the White House. First and foremost, President Joe Biden announced $7 billion in federal grants for the Solar For All program. In addition, the Biden administration announced a host of clean energy manufacturing investments, while Reuters has reported that the White House is expected to reverse……

  • Solar inverter manufacturer financial health rankings | Q1 2024

    Success in solar often comes back to product procurement — and the long-term viability of the company standing behind those products. In our upcoming Q2 edition of Solar Builder magazine, we have an exclusive look at quarterly financial rankings produced by Sinovoltaics, a quality assurance, ESG & traceability firm for the solar and battery energy……

  • The case for pollinator habitats in solar parks

    By Sara Weaver, CWB, PhD, Principal and Natural Resources Director for Bowman When it comes to solar power, there’s little question that producing clean energy benefits the environment. A rarely talked about consequence of the solar parks, however, is the adverse effects they can have on ecosystems if not developed responsibly. Solar parks take up……

  • Smart home installation ideas for solar pros

    Interest in home electrification is growing. Same goes for the product ecosystems that — much like the rug in The Big Lebowski — tie the whole electric home together. Given the ebbs and flows of the solar market, solar installers might be wise to incorporate some of these ancillary “home electrification” services and “smart home”……

  • Digitizing deployment: Enhancing solar development

    By Emily Obenauer | Sitetracker Thomas Edison’s pioneering generation facility — the granddaddy of all central station power — would today be considered a distributed energy resource. After all, it served just a single New York City neighborhood when it fired up back in 1882. Today, DERs and advanced energy systems proliferate, with distributed solar……