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Comparison: SunModo’s new NanoMount vs. EZ Roof Mount and SoloFlash
SunModo (this month’s sponsor) has the most comprehensive collection of solar mounting and racking solutions, from residential rooftops to large-scale ground-mounts to carports and everything in...
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EDF Renewables constructs solar carports at Cox Communications headquarters
EDF Renewables North America was chosen by Cox Communications to design and build an integrated 360 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic and 560 kW / 1,360 kilowatt hour (kWh) onsite behind-the-meter...
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RECON Corp. tabs RPCS for 8 MW of solar tracker projects in Illinois
RP Construction Services, Inc. (RPCS) and RECON Corporation announced earlier this week their partnership to build 8 MWdc of solar tracker projects in Illinois this year. RECON Corporation, a solar...
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Meet PEG: A ground-mount solar system that boosts land yield on constrained...
PEG’s low profile 8 degree tilt design produces between 217% and 241% more land yield (MWh/acre) compared to all trackers and fixed tilt solutions in the U.S. A recent bankability report by DNV GL...
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Product partners: Unirac acquires Ecolibrium Solar
Unirac sent word that it has completed the acquisition of Ecolibrium Solar, a solar racking manufacturer headquartered in Athens, Ohio. The acquisition represents a significant expansion of Unirac’s...
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Fourteen Primergy Solar projects serving schools in Illinois will use Solar...
Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in photovoltaic mounting and solar tracker solutions, supplied Primergy Solar with its TDP and TDP 2.0 Solar Trackers for...
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Soltec expands two-modules-in-portrait tracker concept with new SF7 Tandem
This tracker model connected in two-rows also has the TeamTrack 2.0 to maximize the generation of the solar power plant. Solar tracker manufacturer Soltec is an advocate of the two-in-portrait strategy...
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What RatedPower learned after running 1,000 bifacial solar project...
RatedPower, a young company focused on the design and engineering of solar plants via pvDesign software, recently launched its own bifacial energy yield model. This model enables pvDesign users to...
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Indigenous community in Canada going solar via Polar Racking
Canadian company, Polar Racking, has supplied PRU Ground Mount Racking for Phase 2 of the Fort Chipewyan Solar Farm, projected to be the largest off grid solar farm in Canada once completed. Polar...
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Hello, Pneumatics: The case for Sunfolding’s intriguing air-powered solar...
New systems with “innovative concepts” can be a challenging decision for solar developers and EPCs, and rightfully so when it comes to solar trackers. But what if that innovation is based on one of...
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Installer insight: Florida’s Powerbill Solutions reviews the RT-APEX solar...
Powerbill Solutions was founded in 2017 by Bryan Roddenbery and partner Greg Chentnik. The company’s mission to mitigate and eliminate high electricity bills for their customers along the Florida...
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R E Roofing is latest roofer to start offering GAF Energy’s solar roof
R E Roofing, Santa Clara county’s leading roofing company, is the first roofing company in the San Jose area to offer roof-integrated solar for homeowners from GAF Energy. With a GAF Energy solar roof...
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DESRI boosts solar fleet performance in all weather conditions with this...
D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) will be upgrading its entire solar fleet that use Nextracker’s smart solar trackers with TrueCapture energy enhancement and NX Navigator monitoring software....
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Array Technologies’ SmarTrack adds 5 percent boost to solar energy...
Array Technologies Lost Hills project, installed by RPCS. Array Technologies has added more functionality to its performance-enhancing SmarTrack software, and independent research by engineers at DNV...
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SunModo EXPO 2020: A Showcase of Residential Racking Innovations to Save...
Tue, Sep 29, 2020 2:00 PM EDT Sign up for free here Residential solar installers aren’t able to visit trade show booths this year, so SunModo is bringing its booth to installers. There are a lot of...
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RPCS, Knobelsdorff Electric partner on 17-MW portfolio in Minnesota
RP Construction Services, Inc. and Knobelsdorff announced a 2020 partnership to supply 14 communities throughout the state of Minnesota with solar energy. Included in the 2020 pipeline (a total of 17...
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Vote for the 2020 Solar Builder Projects of the Year
Solar Builder readers submitted their coolest, most innovative and noteworthy solar projects of the last 12 months, and after combing through another record amount of submissions, we’ve narrowed the...
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Nextracker explains its bifacial PV gains and how to accurately model them in...
From the cover of Nextracker’s Quantifying Your Bifacial Gains. Nextracker recently published findings from its bifacial solar tracker research. It explains some of the advantages inherent within its...
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TerraSmart’s ground screws, turnkey service are building Maine’s...
TerraSmart has a robust pipeline of utility-scale solar projects coming soon in the rolling hills of Maine. In July, TerraSmart commenced its turnkey ground screw racking solution on eight record...
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Soltec debuts slimmed down, structurally reinforced SF8 solar tracker
Single-axis tracker manufacturer Soltec is debuting its new SF8 tracker, which will differentiate itself with a minimum 2×60 configuration and 4 to 6 strings and improve upon the previous generation...
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