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Project Profiles
Vine Fresh Produce received a 2 MWac feed-in tariff (FIT) contract and selected Sentinel Solar as the project’s EPC.
Project Profiles
Sungevity designed the system and financed it through its residential leasing program. SunnyMac Solar was responsible for system installation.
Finance & Economics
One of our installation crewmembers recently walked over a solar panel and the glass cracked. Is this covered by warranty?
Product Launches
Solectria Renewables has released its next generation of SMARTGRID-series utility-scale inverters, the SGI 500XTM and SGI 750XTM.
Product Launches
Developed for price-sensitive pitched-roof projects, the new E-Mount product from Quick Mount PV is compatible with composition asphalt shingle roofs.
Product Launches
The FLEXcoupled system from OutBack Power utilizes an AC-Coupling Center (GSLC 175-AC-120/240) to provide stable electro-mechanical coupling of grid-direct string and microinverters with OutBack’s Radian GS8048 battery-based inverter.
Product Launches
Panasonic has redesigned and rereleased its HIT Double bifacial module.
Product Launches
Burndy recently released a new family of Wiley electrical bonding washers.
Product Launches
Fronius USA has introduced four new string inverter models for residential installations.
Product Launches
SolarBOS’s new line of ETL listed arc-fault detection (AFD) and arc-fault circuit interruption (AFCI) source-circuit combiners meet 2011 and 2014 NEC Section 690.11 arc-fault circuit protection requirements.
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Project Profiles
Jeff Spies, the senior director of business development at Quick Mount PV, contracted American Solar to install a PV system at his residence.
Project Profiles
PPC Solar worked closely with the project’s architects to design a visually attractive array composed of roof- and awning-mounted modules installed on the dwelling’s attached garage and workshop.
Project Profiles
Sungevity designed the system and financed it through its residential leasing program. SunnyMac Solar was responsible for system installation.
Solar Heating
A fundamental challenge with implementing financing models in the solar water heating market segment is quantifying the energy a given system produces or offsets. Unfortunately, measuring the energy residential and commercial solar heating systems produce is not always a...
Solar Heating
Thermal imaging cameras, also referred to as infrared (IR) cameras, are very well suited for diagnosing performance issues in solar water heating (SWH) systems.
Project Profiles
Eaton installed three PV systems at its facilities in 2012 as part of its corporate sustainability initiative.
Project Profiles
Vine Fresh Produce received a 2 MWac feed-in tariff (FIT) contract and selected Sentinel Solar as the project’s EPC.
Design & Installation
Commissioning PV systems in winter months presents many challenges to gathering useful and valid data.
Design & Installation
PV system designers and installers tend to treat the impact distributed power generation has on the electric power grid as an afterthought. This article discusses the basic architecture of the electric power system in the continental US and explains why PV systems can...
Project Profiles
In June 2012, Stellar Energy commissioned a 960 kW roof-mounted PV system that provides clean energy for James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment production studio.