Future-ready solar installations with the Pika Energy Island™ Are you offering yesterday’s inverter to today’s customer? As smart batteries move into the mainstream and traditional net metering is reduced in more and more regions, you need a go-to inverter that’s future-ready for all your customers. The U.S.-made Pika Energy IslandRead More

Rooftop to Battery: the case for convenience and safety when designing Solar+Storage Solar+Storage is expected to become an over $3 billion market by 2020, and following the example in Germany storage-based systems will account for 4 out of every 10 installations. This, plus NEC-driven changes for rooftop installations means there’sRead More

Power management company Eaton today announced new higher-power models of its Power Xpert(r) Solar and energy storage inverters for grid-tied utility-scale projects. Eaton Power Xpert 2,000-kilowatt (kW) and 2,200 kW solar inverters and 2,500 kW energy storage inverters provide some of the highest power ratings for grid-tied, utility-scale projects. “EatonRead More

Tracker Insight: Inside the New Single Axis Genius Tracker Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. EST Decentralized trackers are changing the game in the solar industry – maximizing energy yield while minimizing O&M costs. But not all systems present the same value. How can you be sure a decentralizedRead More

How Solar Power Can Help Lower Operating Costs at Water Facilities The growth of the U.S. solar industry over the past five years has been impressive. Since 2009, the annual amount of solar installed on U.S. homes, businesses, municipal and government facilities and utility-scale power farms has soared from aboutRead More

The Evolving Roof Mounting Market with Quick Mount PV The roof-mounted solar project has plenty of parameters. A successful installation starts with proper panel location and correct angle to the sun, but that install list will be both long and with limitations. As long as the roof is free ofRead More

Ballasted ground mount systems can be an ideal solution for building solar farms on sites where penetrating the ground can be difficult. The high cost of pre-casting and shipping concrete ballasts has been one of the most expensive parts of these projects. Opting to cast foundations on site can beRead More

Robots in the solar industry are still a bit of a novelty out in the field, but Alion Energy of Richmond, Calif., has just rolled out its second generation robotic panel placement unit — the Rover 500 — that will help cut the cost of brownfield installations by around 20Read More

Wireless monitoring solutions help large-scale projects. As the solar industry matures, there is a fundamental shift in how large-scale solar projects are funded, constructed and operated. While government programs in the form of tax credits, initiatives, legislations, subsidies and general funding encouraged renewable energy and environmental action, the financing modelRead More