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Tag: PV modules

  • Burns & McDonnell Completes 250 MWac of solar projects for Alliant Energy in Wisconsin

    Burns & McDonnell has completed engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three Alliant Energy solar projects in Wisconsin, totaling 250 MWac. Representing part of Alliant Energy’s Clean Energy Blueprint, the energized projects are: Bear Creek — 50-MWac North Rock — 50-MWac Wood County — 150-MWac Despite tariffs on Asian-manufactured solar panels that caused many developers to pause their projects between……

  • Is it feasible? Is it legal? Sunnova micro utility plan explained as CPUC mulls decision

    With all eyes on the California Public Utility Commission’s (CPUC) net energy metering (NEM 3) decision last year, and how that decision might devalue solar systems for homeowners, national solar installer and service provider Sunnova set its sights on an entirely different distributed energy framework for California homeowners. In September, Sunnova Community Microgrids California LLC……

  • Trina Solar tapped for rooftop PV system to serve affordable housing non-profit in Austin, TX

    Affordable-housing nonprofit Foundation Communities partnered with Spear Commercial & Industrial and Trina Solar US to commission a rooftop solar PV system at its Waterloo Terrace apartment complex in Austin, Texas. Foundation Communities owns and operates 23 affordable-housing communities across Austin and three in North Texas. Currently, the organization plans to open three new facilities in……

  • Risen Energy starts mass production of HJT Hyper-ion solar modules

    China-based Risen Energy says mass-produce of its heterojunction (HJT) Hyper-ion solar modules has begun. The company plans to increase the production capacity of the HJT Hyper-ion solar cell and module to 5 GW by the first half of 2023, and then triple it to 15 GW in the following six months. Since 2019, Risen Energy……

  • NEC 2020 | 705.11 | Load and Supply Side Connections

    The National Electric Code allows for a few different ways to interconnect PV systems to utility systems. In two editions of Code Corner, Ryan Mayfield with Mayfield Renewables, explain busbar, load side interconnections in 705.12 (B)(3)(1) and (2), and then supply side connections in 705.11(C) and (D). 705.12 (B)(3)(1) The sum of 125 percent of……