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Go Off the Grid
With the plethora of renewable energy technologies hitting the market andtheir steady decrease in price, more corporations and businesses arebeginning to consider on-site renewable energy generation. Companies ofall sizes, with varied electricity needs, can tailor one or acombination of several renewable energy installations to fit the needsof the enterprise. There are multiple technologies to consider [...]
10 Smart Grid Trends to Watch
In the past few years, the electric utility industry has experienced amomentous season. The business of electricity generation, transmission,distribution, and consumption has been thrust to the forefront of public discourse – as both a villain and a savior – in the fight againstclimate change and the struggle for energy independence and security,among other global priorities. [...]
Microchip intros grid-connected solar micro inverter reference design
Microchip Technology Inc. has announced a fully digitally controlled,Grid-Connected Solar Micro Inverter Reference Design with an advanced,high-efficiency topology. Complete documentation, including software,schematics and application note, can be downloaded for free today fromMicrochip’s website. The solar power industry is evolving to meet the requirements of a changing landscape, as it moves from a cottageindustry to mass [...]
BP Solar to build Australia’s Largest Grid Connected Solar Plant
BP Solar is partnering with Verve Energy to build Australia’s largest ever grid-connected solar power plant. The plant, with a generating capacity of 10MW, will be built in Geraldton,Western Australia. The plant will help contribute to the WA Government’s 20 percent renewable energy target by 2020. The $58 million will carry more than 40,000 solar [...]
PV Powered Tapped for Solar Energy Grid Project
On Monday, the Colorado-based Advanced Energy Industries announced that one of its companies, PV Powered, has been contracted to carry out development work for stage three of the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) project. Started in 2008, the project is funded by the U.S. Department ofEnergy (DOE) and administered by Sandia National Laboratories. It is aportion of [...]
Butte College Goes Grid Positive
Butte College announced plans to complete a massive solar array by2011 that will produce more energy than the college consumes, making it the first grid positive college in the U.S. and the largest solar producing college in the world. When completed, the college’s 25,000 solar photovoltaic panels will have the capacity to generate 6.4 million [...]
Solar and the Smart Grid
Perhaps as you’ve done your research into going solar, you’ve heard mention of the so-called “Smart Grid” and the challengesand opportunities it presents. Such a broad term can be confusing,however (and perhaps even bring to mind visions of a Terminator-esque future). So we’ll give you the low down on the Smart Grid, and how an investment in [...]
Grid Alternatives Solarthon 2010
On Saturday July 31st, the Residential Solar 101 team joined about 150 other volunteers for Grid Alternatives’ Solarthon 2010. In the eight hours we were there, the teams worked to install solar panels on nine different houses in West Oakland. On average, each system was 2 kW in size. A total of 18 Kilowatts (kW) [...]
The Solar Grid Concept
The rise in the demand for energy and the decline in theavailability of energy producing fossil fuels is one of the biggestchallenges that the world currently faces. Getting some cues from theplant life, which has perfected the use of abundant solar energy fortheir survival, industrial designers have come up with ingenious systems that can reduce [...]