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San Diego Eco Rentals is a provider of eco-friendly vacation rentals. Each home features a PV system, LED lighting, a rainwater collection system, a gray-water irrigation system and access to a free electric vehicle charging station, among many other sustainable features.
Design & Installation
For nonresidential PV projects, where do you start with your site plan drawing to show the location of PV equipment?
Product Launches
Chint Power Systems (CPS) is now offering its customers direct access to Next Phase Solar’s staff of trained field support engineers and technicians.
Product Launches
The Polar Bear III racking system from PanelClaw incorporates several aspects of the company’s existing PanelClaw product line.
Product Launches
Valentin Software has released a new version of its PV*SOL Expert simulation software.
Product Launches
OutBack Power has released two new Radian inverter/charger models for the North American market (models GS8048A and GS4048A) that include the company’s recently developed GridZero Technology, an energy-balancing or self-consumption function.
Product Launches
The new FlashFoot flashed mount from IronRidge eliminates the need for separate flashings, standoffs and L-feet.
Product Launches
Adding to its existing line of wire management products, Heyco has released its HEYClip SunRunner 90° cable clip.
Product Launches
Vivint Solar, a residential PV financing and installation company, has acquired Solmetric as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Product Launches
SEIA and GTM Research recently published the annual “U.S. Solar Market Insight Report: Year in Review.” The report includes data on individual states’ installed capacity, job numbers and pricing.
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Project Profiles
San Diego Eco Rentals is a provider of eco-friendly vacation rentals. Each home features a PV system, LED lighting, a rainwater collection system, a gray-water irrigation system and access to a free electric vehicle charging station, among many other sustainable features.
Design & Installation
The current buzz surrounding solar energy storage has been gradually building for the last two years. How the storage market will grow and evolve, and how quickly, is not yet clear. However, one thing is certain—the solar industry is entering a dynamic new phase of solar...
Finance & Economics
The industry is still grappling with stubborn non-hardware or soft costs, which include project financing; customer acquisition; labor; and permitting, inspection and interconnection (PII).
Design & Installation
In large commercial and utility-scale PV systems, hundreds or thousands of PV modules are connected in series and parallel. The resulting dc voltages may approach 1,000 V and current levels may exceed 1 kA. In this article, we examine methods to calculate the incident...
Design & Installation
The utility-scale PV market has significantly transformed over the last 5 years. Whereas 1 MW–5 MW ground-mounted projects were considered large a few years ago, fixed-tilt and tracking systems are now deployed in projects exceeding 100 MW. To better understand the current...
Design & Installation
To facilitate higher levels of distributed PV penetration, inverter-based generators need to participate in utility-voltage regulation by absorbing or injecting reactive power. Here we provide an overview of how voltage is controlled in transmission and distribution systems...
Product Launches
The Conext Core XC-NA is a new line of central inverters offered by Schneider Electric for large commercial and utility-scale PV plants.
Product Launches
The UL-certified Protect PV.500-ID-UL and PV.630-ID-UL inverters from AEG Power Solutions are designed for the North American utility-scale PV market.
Inverters
Currently, 17 equipment manufacturers offer central inverter products for typical commercial or nonresidential PV applications in the US or Canada. Some of these vendors have introduced new product lines recently that may not be well known even to industry veterans. The...
Product Launches
Trojan Battery Company has developed a proprietary Smart Carbon formula that is now standard in its Industrial and Premium flooded lead-acid battery lines.