Tag: News
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Trina Solar hosts sneak peek at Texas solar manufacturing facility
On December 1, Trina Solar, a global leader in smart solar products and energy solutions, hosted a celebration for its new 1.35 million square foot solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing facility with community members, partners, and local and state officials in Wilmer, Texas. The company is investing more than $200 million in property and equipment and……
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Scanifly debuts prelim PV design tool
Scanifly announced integrations with Nearmap, LiDAR and other remote data sources as part of its new preliminary design solution, Scanifly Prelim. Along with Scanifly Mobile’s site survey and field operations tools released in early 2023, Scanifly now unifies a variety of data sources to nail down PV designs. Scanifly Prelim will offer contractors a budget-conscious……
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Ampt configures i50 string optimizer to boost solar tracker ROI
The DC optimizer experts at Ampt released the i50 String Optimizer earlier this year. The i50 features enhanced capabilities for utility-scale solar power plants that use high-power PV modules and solar trackers to lower the total cost of PV power plants. Ampt String Optimizers are DC/DC converters that deliver full available power from the PV……
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LONGi reports on carbon emissions reduction efforts
The embodied carbon of a solar panel is a metric of interest for many clean energy buyers. In its 2023 Climate Action White Paper, released at COP28, LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., reports that it slashed operational emissions per revenue unit by nearly 40 percent in 2022. Additionally, 47 percent of LONGi’s total electricity consumption……
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CPS adds 25A fuses to 1500 V solar inverters
As the solar PV industry moves toward larger module power generation capacities and short circuit current ratings, many large PV system DC circuits now require 25A rated fuses. To meet this need, CPS America is now producing its 100/125kW inverter standard/distributed wire-boxes and 250/275kW V2 inverters with 25A fuses installed. This product improvement/change is now……