In an effort to encourage home and business owners to begin installing solar arrays, the city of Ridgefield in Connecticut has established the Ridgefield Action Committee for the Environment or (R.
Although Florida has the third best physical and geographic conditions in the United States, their solar policies keep it ranked at seventeenth for installed solar capacity. The state does no ...
Summer is here, and the warm weather is perfect for installing your solar energy system. After making the decision to go solar you may feel overwhelmed with the number of options on the market. It ...
*30MW Texas Solar FarmIn the early 1990s Texas was the country’s leader in wind energy, however much of its holdings were tied into Enron, and after the Enron scandal took place, the state fell beh ...
Washington is well known for being forward thinking in terms of renewable energy. They were the second state, following Colorado to pass their Renewable Energy Standard through a ballot initi ...
Exciting news came to the United States renewable energy market in March of 2017 when wind and solar energy generated 10 percent of America’s electricity, a new energy milestone. This new milestone ...
SMA is well known in the solar industry for their Sunny Boy string inverter series, which is both reliable and highly efficient. One of their lesser known products is the Sunny Boy microinverter, wh ...
Utility companies to date have attempted to meet solar energy users halfway, offering incentives such as net metering to keep their customers tied to the grid. However, as residential solar applica ...
Regardless of political and economic shifts around the globe, renewable energy has continued to grow in both residential and commercial markets. With countries setting high goals for energy changes ...
Minnesota boasts one of the countries strongest Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), with an impressive 25% requirement for utilities to source their power from a renewable energy source by the ...
The Tariff and RatesOn January 22nd 2018, President Trump issued an order for a 30% tariff on imported solar cell and modules (mainly from Asia into the United States).The solar tariff will begin a ...
Your solar panels performance and efficiency matters. That’s why you want to know if solar panels will work in adverse weather conditions, such as cloudy days, rainy days or snowy days. This ...
Canadian Solar is among the leaders in solar panel manufacturing, the title is well deserved as the company continues to grow and expand the definition of improved cell technology. Over the last ye ...
*SolarEdge PV OptimizersAs we approach the summer of 2017, so does new lines of higher efficiency solar panels, new racking systems, better inverter lines – and the ever increasing addition of Sola ...
Power optimizers connect to SolarEdge inverters to increase efficiency at the point of power generated from the solar modules. The optimizers increase the conversion rate and efficiency fo ...
The last few years have seen great strides taken towards renewable energy dependence, particularly in the environmentally minded state of California. Under Senate Bill 100 (SB 100), the state has s ...
After determining the components, you need for your solar array such as solar panels, racking, inverters and so on, it is important to take time in looking into system monitoring. Monitoring compon ...
With more than 300 days of sunshine a year, it isn’t surprising that Colorado has made many top 10 lists in renewable energy including most solar installed per capita to greatest solar job gr ...
New Jersey had the hard-earned title of the strongest state for solar in 2011 due to its aggressive renewable energy incentive and rebates, since then its rate of growth has continued in an upward ...
California has long been a leader in renewable energy installations and incentives for both businesses and homeowners. The state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard currently requires all utili ...
You're thinking about going the DIY solar route and want to know, "Is DIY solar worth it?" That's a good question, so that's why we put together a step-by-step guide to calculating, assessing and des ...
With the rising utility costs and power outages in the United States, it is no surprise that more home and business owners are turning to hybrid solar energy systems. Hybrid systems are grid tie ...
What Are Grid-Tie Systems? A Grid-Tie Solar System, is an electrical producing power module which is connected to a 'power grid', i.e., (your local utilities company). Grid-tie ...
Solar Energy Glossary and Terminology Index The solar glossary contains definitions for technical terms related to solar power and photovoltaic (PV) technologies, including terms hav ...