As solar becomes a top energy source for electricity generation in the U.S. and Europe, and capital costs to install renewable energy declin...
Sheesh. The COVID-19 pandemic has left little time for the Solar Builder editorial staff (me) to keep up with and report on solar industry f...
As part of our 2020 Solar PV Inverter Buyer’s Guide, we asked manufacturers “Should 1,500 volt solar inverters be installed on r...
We chat with Eric Hill, energy storage and systems manager at Outback Power, about why sizing your home’s energy storage system proper...
Solar businesses, like all businesses, are having a rough go of it because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this forced down period, it might be...
As part of our 2020 Solar PV Inverter Buyer’s Guide, we asked manufacturers to tell us one trend emerging in the marketplace solar ins...
Welcome to episode 1 of Solar Distancing with your quarantined host Chris Crowell, managing editor of Solar Builder. Solar Distancing is a r...
Industrial property owners are increasingly turning to rooftop solar facilities to add value to their portfolios and maximize the profitabil...
As multiple data collection shows, DC cabling is 1% of the total project cost, but it is also the number one source of technical fail...
With the provisions of National Electrical Code (NEC) 2017 article 690.12 now being applied in over 30 states and growing (and which we re-e...
The use of solar string inverters impacts AC collection systems across commercial, industrial and utility-scale solar PV projects. If peak s...
Just before the country fell under quarantine, national, state, and local decision makers and clean energy thought leaders were able to conv...
The Solar+ Decade is starting off as the module-level power electronics (MLPE) decade. In its most recent U.S. PV Leaderboard, Wood Mackenzi...
When we talk about wire management and the code, it is easy to meet the basics of the NEC: neat and orderly, secured every 2 to 4 feet, prop...
The Residential Rooftop Report for 2020 focuses on solar PV sales and installs for the new home market. There is a lot of opportunity...
