Tag: South
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Solar Site Spotlight: Custom engineering for flood plain levels with AET
The Rayport-G ECO mounting system from Applied Energy Technologies (AET), a preferred supplier of commercial and utility-scale racking systems, was selected by Swinerton Renewable Energy for a 30 MW-DC project in North Carolina. AET’s engineering team provided substantial support for the system due to the unique site conditions. Extensive custom engineeringRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Report: Average residential solar prices $3 to $4 per watt, commercial $2 to $3
The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) completed a new state-level analysis of close to 11,000 solar price quotes and found that, despite some outliers, average residential solar prices in 2014-2015 clustered around $3-$4 per watt, while prices for nonresidential and utility-scale projects came in lower at $2-$3 per watt. TheRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Town rejects solar farm because it will ‘suck up all the energy from the sun’ and other concerns
North Carolina is one of the more progressive, up-and-coming states for solar energy development. We even started a slow clap when it hit 1 GW. But word of this has not yet spread to the town of Woodland, which just voted to reject a proposal to rezone a section ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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New 25-MW project pushes SunLink’s Southeastern footprint past 350 MW
A new 27-MW DC solar project in Georgia propels SunLink Corp. beyond 350 MW DC of projects in 2015 in the southeastern United States and cements the company’s position as the ground-mount market leader in the region. Georgia recently celebrated the new 135-acre solar facility, located in Jeff Davis County nearRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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The case for the adhered-ballast solar rooftop attachment system
Inventor Allen Gezelman asserts that ballast-only solar attachment systems (BOSAS) are sub-optimal for high wind areas such as Florida and seismic-active areas such as California. As a result, Gezelman decided to come up with his own solution that he calls an adhered-ballast solar attachment system (ABSAS) that is designed forRead More — Solar Builder magazine