domestic photovoltaic system News
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SEI Solar Professionals Certificate Program
Solar Energy International is celebrating 21 years of renewable energy training by launching a new, comprehensive Solar Professionals Certificate Program. This program is an expansion of a previously successful Colorado-based program to fully serve a national and international audience of solar professionals. The intent of the SEI Solar Professionals Certificate Program is to go beyond a ...
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IDC Energy Insights MarketScape Evaluates North American Residential Solar Inverter Market
IDC Energy Insights announced today the availability of a new IDC MarketScape report designed to help installers of residential photovoltaic (PV) systems evaluate inverter technologies and make informed decisions about which vendors to avoid and which to engage. This comprehensive study, IDC MarketScape: North American Residential Solar Inverter Market, ...
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SMA Introduces webconnect monitoring for residential and small commercial PV systems
SMA has unveiled a new solution that simplifies online monitoring of residential and small commercial photovoltaic systems. Webconnect enables direct data transmission from the inverter to SMA’s Sunny Portal, the world’s largest Web-based PV monitoring platform, through the system owner’s existing Internet connection, without the need for additional communications or ...
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A Bright Future for Solar Panels
The future of solar panels is looking even brighter. New research by Cambridge University scientists has led to the development of a more efficient solar cell. Currently, solar cells capture part of the sun's light. Much of the energy of the absorbed light is lost as heat, meaning a maximum of 34% of the sunlight is converted to electrical power. However, Cambridge scientists have made a ...
By Centrica
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Solar Technology Leader SMA America to Expand and Move Headquarters to Rocklin Corporate Center
ROCKLIN, Calif., June 24, 2010 – Don Little Group (DLG), a Northern California real estate investment and development advisory firm, has signed SMA America, LLC, the U.S.-based subsidiary of SMA Solar Technology AG, the world’s largest solar inverter manufacturer, to occupy 40,000 sq. ft. of space at Rocklin Corporate Center. Effective August 2010 for a seven-year term, SMA America ...
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New NREL Report Shines Light on Installed Costs and Deployment Barriers for Residential Solar PV with Energy Storage
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are making available the most detailed component and system-level cost breakdowns to date for residential photovoltaic (PV) solar systems equipped with energy storage-and quantifying previously unknown soft costs for the first time. The report, titled "Installed Cost Benchmarks and Deployment ...
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California Energy Commission Adopts Standards Requiring Solar Systems for New Homes, First in Nation
Moving to cut energy use in new homes by more than 50 percent, the California Energy Commission today adopted building standards that require solar photovoltaic systems starting in 2020. The building energy efficiency standards, which are the first in the nation to require solar, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equivalent to taking 115,000 fossil fuel cars off the road. The ...
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Linzer Products Corporation Reduces Energy Costs with Mitsubishi Electric Photovoltaic System
Linzer Products Corporation, one of the world’s largest manufacturers, importers, and exporters of paint tools and accessories, is replacing all the company’s electricity needs with clean, solar power at its paint brush factory in San Fernando, California. The recent installation of a 614kW DC photovoltaic (PV) system includes 2,730 Mitsubishi Electric solar modules, installed by Sun ...
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JinkoSolar Modules Power 600 North Carolina Homes
SHANGHAI, Oct. 10, 2012/PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a leading global solar power product manufacturer, today announced that a 6.4-megawatt solar farm utilizing JinkoSolar photovoltaic (PV) modules, was completed in Robeson County, North Carolina. Built by North Carolina-based Strata Solar, the Watts solar farm is the most recent ...
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Locus Energy Selected as Approved Performance Data Provider by Connecticut`s Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority
The Connecticut Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (CEFIA) has selected Locus Energy as an approved Performance Data Provider (PDP) for its Residential Solar Investment Program (Program). To qualify for a rebate under CEFIA's Program all participants must purchase and install a monitoring system from an approved PDP. Locus Energy has worked with CEFIA to create a special monitoring ...
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