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SMA Releases Sunny Portal iPhone App
Inverter manufacturer SMA America has introduced the Sunny Portalapplication for iPhones. Available for free download from the Apple AppStore, it allows solar power system owners and operators to manage,monitor and display PV system performance instantly. SMA’s first iPhone application, the Solarchecker, was released earlier this year. "The Sunny Portal iPhone application provides on-the-go monitoring for [...]
Nonprofit Solar Pie Proves Seattle is Always Sunny
Scott Sherwood wanted to put solar panels on the 1907 Seattle home he shared with his wife, Carolyn. And Carolyn thought he was nuts. “This is going to be one big, costly huge science experiment,” she thought. They live in Seattle, she told him. It’s the cloudiest, rainiest city in the country. “But when you’re [...]
China Sunergy Expects Sunny Future $CSUN
With the political and environmental fallout from the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico loominglarge in everyone’s minds, the debateover decreasing dependency on fossil fuels and stepping up thepursuit of renewable sources is one again front and center. One cleantech player confident in sunny days ahead is China Sunergy (Nasdaq: CSUN), a Nanjing-based [...]
Sunny with a Chance of Gigawatts
The recently posted 2010 predictions for solar marketwas a stimulus for reflections on local business opportunities. BeingItalian, it comes natural to contribute to this blog with a discussionabout the solar photovoltaic (PV) market in Italy and the innovationpotential. Italy’s goal is to have 3 gigawatts (GW) of PV by 2016. Today, Italyhas 0.3 – 0.6 [...]
Green Scene for Sunny Arizona and Florida: Imminent Solar Horizon
FloridaPower & Light Company (FPL) announced recently that it expects theDeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida, tostart providing electricity to customers in late October. FPL is thelargest electric utility in Florida and one of the largestrate-regulated utilities in the U.S., and it serves 4.5 millioncustomer accounts, while ranking in the top 10 [...]
Groove with the Sunny Song solar speakers
Who would have thought you can do a load of good to the environmentwhile you listen to music. The Sunny Song speakers work on solar energyand are based on the NXT panel technology. The unique smart flowerdesign certainly looks great and for easy functionality, the speakerscan be connected to players with a Bluetooth technology. Innovationahoy! [...]
SMA Sunny Tower Inverter System
SMAis well known for residential grid tie inverters, but how aboutcommercial solar electric systems that need larger inverter capacity?Meet the SMA Sunny Tower, offered in a 36kW or 42kW models the SunnyTower groups 6 inverters into a single tower enabling the grid tieinverters to handle commercial scale applications. The advantageof using a Sunny Tower in [...]
Solar Bad Apples: BeOhana Solar
Likeany business, there are going to be some bad apples, especially duringthe early growing pains. The latest pain is San Francisco Bay areaBeOhana Solar, Beohana Solar went out of business last year and left a lot of paying customers without solar or with poorly installed solar. See these news two news alerts from a local [...]