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Author Archives for Charles W. Thurston

Articles by Charles W. Thurston

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Vertical Reach: Trina Solar is taking turn-key solar procurement to...

Solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies have all too often been forced to choose solar components for projects as a ...

October 15, 2019
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Stacks on Value Stacks: The large-scale solar plus storage market...

Large-scale solar + storage is on the drawing boards of a host of major EPCs, with the current round of demonstration plants leading to whol...

August 6, 2019
Featured McCarthy Building
Sustainable Planning: Inside McCarthy Building’s holistic approach to solar development

When a $4.5 billion-a-year employee-owned solar EPC determined how to best maximize local trainee headcounts on projects, the solution not o...

June 4, 2019
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Crossing Wires: Solar installers are connecting new services to spark...

More solar installers are adding products and services to their core offering, both to help customers fulfill their sustainable energy goals...

April 2, 2019
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Snowlar Builder: We look at the opportunity of solar development...

Solar power is starting to bolster the energy capacity in northern climes, especially across Canada and Alaska where diesel generators take ...

February 5, 2019
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Clear and Present Data: Utility data is kept in the...

Solar customer data is increasingly being used for quantifiable savings by solar installers, developers, energy arbitrators and utilities. T...

October 9, 2018
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Shave and a rate cut: How solar + storage solutions...

Shaving the peaks off commercial and industrial (C&I) electric bills is the top revenue stream for energy storage systems, and given the...

July 23, 2018
Mounting Guide Quick Mount PV’s Tile Replacement Mount
The Replacements: These solar mounts for tile rooftops cut labor...

It’s always reassuring when solar technology moves faster than a federal regulator, even if it is a well-intentioned agency like the U...

May 31, 2018
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Solar Service 2.0: Identify new service, upsell opportunities with smart...

Solar inverter intelligence and monitoring has evolved mightily over the last few years, from silent rows of capacitors to today’s cir...

April 3, 2018
Batteries battery
Battery chemistry matters: What to know before installing solar +...

The days when a residential or commercial solar installer did not need to know the difference in performance between lead-acid and lithium-b...

February 20, 2018
Financing Geronimo Energy
Solar for All: How to incentivize community solar projects to...

Community solar has taken off within the renewable energy development leagues, melding the interests of residential and commercial or indust...

November 28, 2017
Financing C&I Solar
Solving C&I Solar: How boutique financing is growing this underserved...

Boutique financiers armed with massive databases and complex algorithms are changing the way that small commercial and industrial (C&I) ...

October 24, 2017
Mounting Guide Solar FlexRack
Mounting Pressure: Today’s large-scale PV boom demands new levels of...

For the first time ever, in 2016, U.S. solar ranked as the No. 1 source of new electric generating capacity additions on an annual basis. In...

May 11, 2017
Inverters and eBOS Fronus training
Keys to inverter service: Data granularity, remote updates, customer relations

Services for solar inverters are improving markedly, from commissioning through replacement, as the flow of panel and string-level data beco...

April 10, 2017
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