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Project Profiles
Borrego Solar designed a portfolio of solar projects for the Newport-Mesa Unified School
District (NMUSD) for the installation of solar carports and lunch shelters across 32 sites within the district.

Project Profiles
Mass Renewables of Bellingham, Massachusetts, installed the Tesla Powerwall lithium-ion residential energy storage system in Holliston, Massachusetts.

Product Launches
SMA’s recently launched Power+ Solution leverages its stake in Tigo Energy by combining its single-phase Sunny Boy-US inverters, available in six power classes ranging from 3 kWac to 7.7 kWac, with Tigo’s TS4-R platform.

Product Launches
SolarBOS has launched fused ac combiner and recombiner solutions for commercial, industrial and utility-scale PV plants.

Product Launches
SolarWorld recently announced that it has doubled the workmanship warranty on its portfolio of solar modules to 20 years.

Product Launches
Panasonic Eco Solutions North America has added three high-efficiency models to its HIT module lineup for residential applications.

Product Launches
PVCAD enables solar designers and engineers to create comprehensive project designs for ground-mounted, rooftop and carport PV installations.

Product Launches
Yaskawa–Solectria Solar has announced the introduction of its Commercial Rapid Shutdown Combiner for 3-phase string inverter systems.

Design & Installation
Bifacial modules convert light captured on both the front and back sides of a PV module into electrical power. Bifaciality improves PV system energy capture—dramatically in some cases—and rewrites conventional system design rules in interesting ways. In this article we...

Business & Finance
The US solar industry fielded systems at an unprecedented rate of 1 MW every 32 minutes in Q3 2016. At the same time, average system prices are falling quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. These data suggest that profitable solar installation companies are continually...
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Product Launches
Trojan Battery has introduced a redesigned line of valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) absorbent glass mat (AGM) batteries for deep-cycling applications, including renewable energy systems.

Industry Interviews
Lior Handelsman co-founded SolarEdge in 2006 and currently serves as the vice president of marketing and product strategy.

Project Profiles
The Old Alabama Road 2 (OAR 2) solar project, located in Woodland, Georgia, represents two trends present in many megawatt-scale ground-mounted PV installations—tracked arrays and the use of string inverters for power processing.

Product Launches
AMtec Solar’s Auxiliary Power Cabinet is an all-in-one freestanding enclosure that is customizable to meet specific project requirements.

Project Profiles
The site of the Kokomo Solar 1 power plant was once the home of a massive Continental Steel plant in Kokomo, Indiana, that closed down in the 1980s.

Project Profiles
In early 2016, David Brearley and his wife Molly O’Halloran contracted Austin, Texas–based Freedom Solar Power to permit and install a SunPower PV system for a new alley flat.

Business & Finance
Looking for opportunities to network or develop professionally? This overview of national and regional solar conferences and events is here to help. We provide an overview of 21 conferences and events, in nine states plus the District of Columbia and Mexico, of interest to...

Product Launches
S-5! has released four new attachment brackets, RibBrackets I–IV, for use with metal roofing panels
with trapezoidal profiles.