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Inverter Throwdown: Central vs. Micro
Solar photovoltaic panels generate DC (Direct Current) electricity. However, almost every household and business in Southern California uses AC (Alternating Current) electricity. A solar inverter changes DC power to AC power so it can provide electricity that is suitable for use in your home or business. Also, this conversion allows you to “backfeed” electricity to [...]
It’s Official: Suntech Power Now A State-Owned Entity
Any pretense of Suntech (NYSE: STP) being an independent entity is over. China’s Suntech, faced with a debt crisis and with the fate of thousands of employees’ jobs hanging in the balance, “is poised to be taken over partly or entirely by the municipal government’s holding company in its hometown, Wuxi, China,” according to reports [...]
We’d like to take a moment to introduce the newest member of the AMECO Solar team…our Chevy Volt! The bright and bold design — done by Iconography Studios over in Los Alamitos — highlights the fact that our brand new electric car is powered by solar energy. Each evening, we plug in the electric car [...]
MIT Creates Solar Mapping Tool for Cambridge
MIT is making it easier for the people of Cambridge to go solar, thanks to a new solar mapping tool that it developed. Residents, businesses and others in Cambridge can look up addresses throughout the town to determine the potential of rooftop solar at the location, including estimated system cost, payback and return on [...]
Even With Lower Incentives, German Solar Market Grows
A dramatic shift in the German solar market hasn’t slowed its growth. The world’s leading solar market skyrocketed because of a progressive feed-in-tariff program that paid solar system owners more for the power they produced than the retail power rate. The program has changed and the tariff has slipped below the retail rate. But home [...]
Aerospace Museum of California Goes Solar
The new solar photovoltaic installation at the Aerospace Museum of California in McClellan provides all the power the facility needs. Pacific Power installed the Motech Americas panels and the 756 roof-mounted solar panels provide 111 percent of the electricity the museum’s massive facility uses. Pacific Power approached the museum management, said executive director Roxanne Yonn. [...]
RGS Energy Goes Utility Scale Solar in Vermont
Two utility-scale projects in Vermont announced this week will mark RGS Energy’s growth into a different market. RGS Energy, the commercial arm of Real Goods Solar, announced that it is partnering with Gestamp Solar to build a 2.3-megawatt solar installation in Pownal and 2.5-megawatt array in Williamstown, Vermont. Gestamp will own and operate the solar [...]
SEI Expands Training and Development Programs
Solar Energy International is stepping up its training and development presence nationally. The organization, based in Carbondale, Colo., Has provided training and educational resources to solar professionals since the early 1970s. But its audience is growing and so are its offerings. This month, SEI announced three new projects. The first is a new advanced lab training [...]