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Author Archives for Charles W. Thurston

Articles by Charles W. Thurston

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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The Holistic Home: We peer into the future of home...

The mid-term growth of the U.S. residential solar-plus-storage market will be nothing short of phenomenal, as the seamless melding of genera...

February 20, 2017
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Solar Builder Project of The Year Winner: Fort Madison Middle...

Fort Madison Middle School Category: Roof-Mount Fort Madison, Iowa | 300 kW The landmark 1922 Fort Madison Middle School nearly wound up in ...

November 7, 2016
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Module-Level Electronics O&M Equation: Looking at the solutions to address...

The rapid evolution of module-level electronics has spiked performance, extended reliability and crushed manufacturing prices, but there is ...

October 17, 2016
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Primer for buying, installing residential solar+storage systems

Energy storage has emerged as a technology that helps make solar power a winning choice for homeowners, and the rapid evolution of battery c...

April 20, 2016
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Solar carports will spread across the country as costs decline

The evolution of carport design has yielded a leaner, more cost-effective structure that can deliver both the duty of vehicle protection and...

October 20, 2015
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