home
Product Launches
Unirac’s recently released Sunframe Microrail (SFM) for arrays installed on pitched rooftops features a structural front trim rail, adjustable-height posts, preassembled parts and integrated electrical bonding.
Product Launches
Tigo Energy has extended its modular TS4 platform design to support 1,500 Vdc PV systems.
Product Launches
SMA America’s Utility Power System is a flexible, pre-engineered solution for centralized utility-scale PV plants.
Product Launches
SolarEdge is facilitating compliance with NEC 2014 and NEC 2017 rapid-shutdown requirements by integrating automatic rapid shutdown into its highest-power commercial inverters.
Design & Installation
The International Association for Fire Fighters introduced language to NEC 2017 that seeks to mandate module-level rapid shutdown for PV systems on buildings. This would, of course, require module-level disconnecting devices for all building-mounted PV modules, including...
Design & Installation
More than 600 solar equipment and service providers will display their products at the Solar Power International conference and expo in Las Vegas on September 13–15. We highlight 17 companies that provide a wide range of solutions for system integrators. Some of the...
Business & Finance
The goal of this article is to define what constitutes an effective PR strategy and to identify the optimal approach, the available tools and the most effective ways to engage with an audience. Companies often neglect PR, shelving it until they want coverage when they have...
Business & Finance
Applying a discount rate as part of your financial analyses not only will improve your design and financial decision-making processes, but will also increase the accuracy and credibility of your results...
Project Profiles
The Clean Energy Collective (CEC) developed the Garfield County Airport Solar Array project as an 858 kW community solar array (GCASA Phase 1) and commissioned it in 2011. After completing this first phase, CEC approached Sunsense to expand the GCASA site.
Project Profiles
Mustang Solar is a 3 MWdc solar project developed, designed and constructed by groSolar for the Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E) utility.
Pages
Industry Interviews
Sarah Kurtz is a principal scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and has served as a group manager for the PV Module Reliability Test and Evaluation Group since 2008 and the co-director for the National Center for Photovoltaics since 2015.
Product Launches
Ginlong Technologies has updated its US commercial sector product line for 2017–18, adding higher-capacity Solis models and incorporating new technologies and features.
Product Launches
TerraSmart has launched a fleet of High Precision Aerial Site Mapping (HPASM) service drones to measure topographical data and streamline site mapping for ground-mount PV plants.
Project Profiles
The NYS OPRHP contracted Frey Electric to design and install a stand-alone PV-powered LED lighting system on each of the break wall’s pergolas to provide dusk-to-dawn lighting for visitors to the Buffalo Harbor State Park.