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Author Archives for Charles W. Thurston

Articles by Charles W. Thurston

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Runaway costs: Renewable developers are paying for electric grid upgrades...

Renewable energy developers know that the hidden costs of developing new solar energy projects are often led by the utility interconnection ...

September 29, 2021
Featured lithium supply chain
All eyes on lithium: Sizing up a potential U.S.-based lithium...

The lithium battery boom is here to stay as the demand for EVs and energy storage is going crazy. Yet, global supply is being stretched. Fin...

August 17, 2021
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Inside SolarAPP+ and NREL’s pursuit of seamless residential solar permitting

The hazy days of unknown delay times for home solar permitting, inspection and interconnection appear finally may be behind the industry now...

June 3, 2021
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You down with VPPs? How the virtual power plant movement...

As has been the case with many good science fiction inventions of the last century, we are finally getting around to building virtual power ...

March 5, 2021
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Boosts and boasts: The latest data on solar tracker +...

Improving the electricity yield in photovoltaic solar energy long has been a game of incremental additions of new technology. Over the ...

January 18, 2021
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Solar + Whatever: How to provide home energy resilience (and...

It only takes one hurricane, tornado or wildfire for the value of a resilient home energy system to sink in. Add to such increasing natural ...

August 24, 2020
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Residential BIPV in 2020: Solar shingles yield to roof-integrated innovation

The integrated solar roof has long been a solar technology goal — combining solar power with a watertight roof covering — b...

June 8, 2020
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Seven solar tracker system tweaks and new tech to know...

This article appears in the Spring issue of Solar Builder magazine. Get your free subscription (print or digital) here. Sunfolding’s p...

April 20, 2020
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Exclusive details on CPS America’s dedicated solar inverter O&M service

The concept of offering operations and maintenance (O&M) to solar asset holders is not new. A host of O&M companies now provide soup...

March 31, 2020
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Six solar investment trends: Energy storage and shorter PPAs (and...

Corporate investors in solar energy are modifying their expectations and demands for future utility-scale solar projects, bolstering the pro...

February 13, 2020
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Solar + storage roundup: All the single-vendor systems and strategic...

Along with the doubling of the U.S. residential solar + storage market last year, new system providers have cropped up like spring weeds, he...

January 14, 2020
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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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