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Tag: solarcity

  • How new solar module technology lifts efficiency, limits price

    A whirlwind of new technology improvements are appearing in solar modules made by the world’s leading manufacturers, with common goals of improving performance and efficiency, while holding costs down to the bare bone. Many of these advances were touted during the recent SPI show in Anaheim, where manufacturers vied forRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SolarCity claims to have built world’s most-efficient rooftop solar panel

    SolarCity sent out a press release claiming to have built the world’s most efficient rooftop solar panel, with a module efficiency exceeding 22 percent. SolarCity says the panel generates more power per square foot and harvests more energy over a year than any other rooftop panel in production, with its eye onRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SolarCity announce new Smart Energy Homes Pilot Project

    SolarCity announced a smart energy homes demonstration project in partnership with the SunSpec Alliance and Southern California Edison, where SolarCity will install rooftop solar PV, batteries, controllable thermostats and smart inverters on 50 homes in the Southern California Edison territory. The team will demonstrate how smart energy homes, combining numerousRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New website formed to urge Congress to extend the Investment Tax Credit

    Despite all of the hoopla the Obama Administration is making about solar these days, the sudden drop of the Investment Tax Credit still sits as a chilling event for the red hot industry. No one is quite sure what’s going to happen, and that’s why the solar industry is comingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SolarCity heads into Vermont

    SolarCity is making its solar service available to Vermont homeowners for the first time. Vermont residents can now install solar with no upfront cost and pay less for solar electricity than they pay for utility power, even without local incentives. Customers can go solar for as little as $30 per month,Read More — Solar Builder magazine