Streamlining Solar Design with Aurora Solar
The Energy Show · Streamlining Solar Design and Installation with Aurora Your friendly local solar contractor has to contend with two...
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- Jan 7, 2020
SolarEdge-Perspective for a Distributed Grid
People talk about solar panels and batteries a lot (at least the people I talk to). The reasons are that solar panels are conspicuous on...
- Aug 7, 2018
Upgrading Your Solar System
Over a million buildings in the U.S. have rooftop solar. These systems are extremely reliable: solar panels are guaranteed for 25 years,...
- Jul 5, 2018
Planning for an All Electric Future
There is no doubt in my mind that the “All Electric future” is inevitable. The only question is how fast…20 or 50 or 75 years? Electric...
- Nov 21, 2017
Inovateus Solar with T. J. Kanczuzewski
The “climate” for solar is most favorable when there are high electric rates and incentives. For these reasons the PV industry grew...
- Sep 11, 2017
Designing a Reliable Electric Grid
Over the past few months we’ve experienced a solar eclipse, several devastating hurricanes, another under-construction nuclear plant...
- Sep 5, 2017
Which solar panels are best?
Here’s a solar industry secret: all solar panels generate the same amount of electricity on a per watt basis. In other words, twenty 300...
- Aug 21, 2017
The Solar Eclipse Is Increasing Solar Prices
Millions of Americans were using cereal boxes, telescopes, and flimsy plastic solar viewing glasses to witness the Solar Eclipse on...
- Aug 14, 2017
SolarRoofHook with Rick Gentry
With much higher volume manufacturing, prices for solar panels have come down tremendously over the past 20 years — from about $1,000...
- Aug 2, 2017
LG Battery Storage with Linh Tran
20 years ago the problem with rooftop solar was that customers needed a large collection of lead acid batteries to store their daytime...
- Jun 6, 2017
Tesla Solar Roof Tiles – Customer and Installer Perspectives
There’s no doubt in my mind that the home of the future will be solar powered. Intuitively it would be great if the roofing material...
- May 30, 2017
The Solar Coaster
I think Charles Dickens was describing the Solar Coaster in his introduction to “A Tale of Two Cities”: It was the best of times, it was...
- May 22, 2017
Key Factors for Long Term Solar Satisfaction
Many industries have boom and bust cycles as manufacturers try to adjust supply to customer demand. These challenges are accentuated in...
- Mar 13, 2017
Coal, Nuclear and Oil are Losing Steam - Can They Compete?
Our sources of electrical power are quickly shifting. In 2016 there was 26 gigawatts of new electrical-utility capacity added in the U.S....
- Mar 7, 2017
Future Rooftop Solar Costs - Getting to $2.50/watt
The solar industry is one of our most obvious success stories. Our industry directly employs 261,000 people. We generate energy that is...
- Dec 26, 2016
Solpad with Chris Estes
In 2016, more solar generating capacity was installed than any other fuel source. Because of the low cost of solar-generated electricity,...
- Dec 5, 2016
Concentrating Solar Power with Fred Morse
As technology advances, our favorite science-fiction and spy-thrillers become both laughably more unrealistic and eerily based on truth....
- Nov 21, 2016
Costs and Savings for Tesla's Solar Shingles
Tesla’s recently announced solar shingles are a great looking and potentially ground-breaking Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV)...
- Nov 7, 2016
Solar Inverters, More Than AC-DC
With so many options for solar inverters, choosing the right one for your home or business can get a little overwhelming. In the way of...
- Sep 5, 2016
An Urgent Letter to the Solar Industry and our Customers from Jigar Shah and Barry Cinnamon
We don’t call it the “Solar Coaster” for nothing. U.S. solar installations will hit 16 GW in 2016. These solar installations are having a...
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