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Only in China: The Umet Wooden Electric Car
One of the world’s first all-wooden cars has made its debut at the China Eurasia Expo. Dubbed the Umut, this 4 metre long, 7-seater car is composed completely of wood, made entirely by hand, and is powered by an electric motor. With an expected top speed is 60km/h, it can last about 2.5 hours or [...]
The 8 Best Energy Monitoring Apps
It is plainly obvious that, in order to begin to cut back on your energy consumption, you must first be aware of how, when and where you are using that energy. Once that data is in the hands of the consumer, it is proven that power use can be reduced significantly. Here are eight apps [...]
Public Solar Monitoring: Gaining Popularity
Consumer-oriented businesses with solar installations are finding that displaying the performance of the systems publicly is the key to building customer loyalty and revenue growth, according to SunReports, a company that specializes in monitoring systems for solar PV and hot water systems. “The benefits of solar monitoring are not always obvious, but it’s an extremely [...]
The Next Big Thing in Solar: Solar Energy Monitoring Systems
If micro-inverters are the current craze in the solar industry, then solar energy monitoring systems will be the next big thing. Micro-inverters (and other parallel technology) were given lots ofattention because they can increase the efficiency of a system by up toas much as 10%-20%. Similarly, solar electricity systems that are hooked up to monitoring systems have [...]
Performance Testing, Monitoring Shape PV Optimization
The performance of PV systems will be driven not only by the quality of manufacturing processes and equipment, but also by the reliability of testing procedures and increased attention to performance monitoring, panelists stressed at the SolarTech Performance Symposium, held last month at the Intersolar North America Conference in San Francisco. According to Doug Rose, [...]
Monitoring First Solar For Post Earnings Reaction $FSLR
First Solar (FSLR) reports earnings this evening. Unlike the last two rounds, I have no strong feelings about the potential upward or downward moves this time around. I went neutral on FSLR after closing out positions on the great post-earnings pop in April, and I have not done much else since then with the stock [...]
Conergy Selects Draker For PV Monitoring
Conergy has selected Draker Labs to provide monitoring services for a1.1 MW solar system that Conergy designed and installed at AquaAmerica’s water treatment plant in West Chester, Pa. The PV system,which was commissioned in December 2009, consists of ground-mountedpanels installed at a tilt angle. Draker’s monitoring systemprovides the plant’s owners and operators with real time performanceindicators [...]
groSolar, DECK Monitoring Partner On Large-Scale Solar Plant Monitoring
groSolar has expanded its proprietary energy monitoring solution,groEnergy Watch, to include a seamless solution for large-scale solar PV installations. Through a partnership with DECK Monitoring, the companywill be making the improved groEnergy Watch solution available to itsnational network of dealer-installers and commercial installationcustomers in June. The DECK commercial-system platform connectsseamlessly with the groEnergy Watch system [...]
SunReports unveils Apollo1 solar performance monitoring solution
SunReports Inc., a provider of performance monitoring solutions forresidential and small commercial solar installations, has unveiled theApollo1 – the industry’s first comprehensive, cost-effective performance monitoring solution for both solar electric and solar thermal systems. Designed with solar system installers’ and end-users’ needs in mind, Apollo1 isan on-site energy monitoring device that simultaneously captures PV,solar hot [...]