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  • Citadel Roofing & Solar opens new office, adds generator services

    Citadel Roofing & Solar is growing both its service territory and service offering, having opened an office in Fresno, Calif., to meet the growing demand for solar + storage from Central Valley homeowners and homebuilders, and by adding home generators for residential power outage protection. “Solar energy has of courseRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Meet PWRzone: Generac’s solution for simplifying, optimizing, solar PV installations

    Something we touched on in our Solar Distancing series with Generac Power Systems is now being rolled out: PWRzone. Here is that initial discussion: Generac is calling PWRzone a total system innovation that is a more efficient approach to PV system design and optimization, using fewer complex components than moduleRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar Distancing: Sizing a storage system based on an energy bill

    Sizing out a PV system is somewhat simple. Sizing the storage element to pair with it is much more nuanced and complex depending on whether the battery is just for backup (and how much back up) or for daily cycling (or both!) and what the ROI would be based onRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Watch: Generac explains its Power Zoning solar PV approach

    What is Power Zoning? Your guess is as good as ours, so we asked Jeff McAndrew, director of sales, for clean energy solutions at Generac to tell us. This concept, coming soon from the Generac Clean Energy team, is their approach to solar PV optimization and shade mitigation using fewerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Watch: What is round-trip efficiency?

    The performance of a solar + storage system is tied to the round-trip efficiency of the entire system — how many electrons are captured and then lost along the journey from the sun to the batteries to the outlets of a home? The efficiency of that system can vary dependingRead More — Solar Builder magazine