Tag: January February 2018 Print Issue
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Context Clues: Know where to find the value when selling commercial solar solutions
Land in any airport, and the view tells the story. Commercial buildings with fresh paint and no solar panels on them yet. Residential customers may commit to solar for a variety of personal and ethical reasons, but nonresidential property owners tend toward the pragmatic. They make business decisions based onRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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DC decisions: Large-scale PV wiring trends are leaving behind DC combiners, cables
All large-scale PV projects will involve a ton of modules and only one grid connection, so all of the aggregation decisions made in between comprise a big chunk of a profitable project pitch. We asked two major eBOS suppliers for the trends leading the way in large-scale PV wiring inRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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PV Pointer: How to optimize PV system structural design for environmental hazards
According to a recent study by SolarPower Europe, new solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity installed worldwide in 2016 reached more than 76 gigawatts. This was largely due to dramatic growth led by the United States and China, with both countries almost doubling the amount of solar added from 2015. Globally thereRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Battery chemistry matters: What to know before installing solar + storage systems
The days when a residential or commercial solar installer did not need to know the difference in performance between lead-acid and lithium-based batteries are over. Battery storage has emerged as an unavoidable complement to solar, slashing peak charges and outwitting utility time-of-use charge games, not to mention saving microgrids fromRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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The LONGi-term play: Get familiar with this record-breaking Chinese manufacturer
Even amid the tariff uncertainty, China-based LONGi Solar is ready to establish a bigger presence in the U.S. and intrigues us in the (ahem) long-term. Wholly owned by LONGi Group, there was speculation that in a punitive tariff scenario the company might consider establishing its own U.S. manufacturing line, butRead More — Solar Builder magazine