As part of our 2020 Solar PV Inverter Buyer’s Guide, we asked manufacturers to tell us one trend emerging in the marketplace solar installers should be considering. Here is what they had to say. Residential Inverters as a strategic hub Lior Handelsman, VP of Marketing & Product Strategy and FounderRead More

The fifth annual Solar Installer Survey from EnergySage, in partnership with the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP), shows a solar industry still on the rise. Despite market and policy uncertainty, the percentage of nationwide installers expressing growing confidence in the industry doubled from 2016 to 2019 (among 770Read More

The Solar Builder annual Solar PV Inverter Buyer’s Guide is a chance to check in with all of the inverter manufacturers – from the market leaders to the up-and-comers – to get a sense of how their technology has evolved and what new products are now available for installation. ThisRead More

Aptly named, the TEMPO series from Fibox keeps up with the pulse of today’s market to provide a convenient and speedy enclosing solution for controls and components.  The large cover offers ample real estate for printing, labels or switches. The water tight box keeps components dry and dust free, thanksRead More

For another perspective on the ins and outs of Array Technologies’ technology, we reached out to RP Construction Services (RPCS), a turnkey designer, supplier, and installer of Array’s DuraTrack HZ V3 ground mounted solar tracker, to explain why this is their preferred system. Among the main considerations for a solarRead More

A 3 MW solar PV project has been completed and commercialized by United Renewable Energy at Kimberly-Clark’s facility in LaGrange, Ga. The project was the result of collaboration between Kimberly-Clark’s facility, United Renewable Energy LLC as the project developer and builder, and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC through a subsidiary, whichRead More

Effective Date: Shipments starting January 2020 Affected Products: Model No. CPS SCH100/125KTL-600-SWB (Standard Wire-box) CPS America sent word that it’s made a change to the AC Output Terminal used within the Distributed/Standard Wire-box of the SCH100KTL-DO/US-600 and SCH125KTL-DO/US-600 inverter models. The change includes replacing and upgrading the 4-pole M8 studRead More

The starting gun has sounded for the global storage market, which is set to grow from approximately 4 GW of annual deployments in 2019 to more than 15 GW in 2024, according to Wood Mackenzie. Costs have fallen, direct incentives and clean energy targets are proliferating and competitive markets andRead More

In solar energy there are a number of international standards to consider when it comes to PV plant operation and maintenance. To help make sense of a somewhat complicated subject, the solar radiation experts at Kipp & Zonen have summarized the most relevant ISO and IEC standards that apply toRead More

Despite missing its earnings forecast targets and not meeting analyst expectations, SunPower still had a pretty solid 2019. It is still figuring out the mechanics of spinning off its PV manufacturing business late last year, but the company’s full-year 2019 earnings report shows a big bump in its residential solarRead More