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Featured drone and pilot sunset
Surveying technology moving the needle for solar PV deployment

This column was contributed by Chris Mielke, director of aerial and mobile mapping at Bowman, an engineering services firm. The expansion of...

July 31, 2023
News OpenSolar 3D capture
PVEL, NREL validate accuracy of OpenSolar’s solar design tool

Third-party researchers PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) put OpenSolar, a free solar design and sale...

November 8, 2021
News
HOMER Energy by UL promotes design tool for utility-scale solar...

HOMER Energy by UL released a new service – HOMER Front + UL Analysis –  to help energy developers design and optimize the ...

March 16, 2021
News commercial designer autostsring
Details on new features added to the SolarEdge commercial Designer...

SolarEdge sent word that it’s introducing an extended feature set on its free web-based Designer tool that specifically supports comme...

January 6, 2020
News nearmap
Nearmap buys 3D geometry tech provider to improve its already...

Leading aerial imagery company Nearmap has acquired technology and assets from Pushpin, a technology company that extracts data from 3D mode...

December 12, 2019
News SolarReviews layout tool 2
Meet Solar Calculator, an AI-driven solar design, estimator tool aimed...

Solar-Estimate.org, a SolarReviews company, has added an online solar estimator, the Solar Calculator, that puts a legit solar design softwa...

December 11, 2019
News sunpower design studio
SunPower to give homeowners the ability to design their own...

Historically, understanding a home’s solar potential required talking to a sales consultant or compromising with one-size-fits-all onl...

September 9, 2019
News solar shading drones
Scanifly’s drone-based solar shading assessment approved by NYSERDA and MassCEC

Both New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) have approved sh...

May 7, 2019
Featured Residential rooftop report
Residential Rooftop Report: Heat up your solar install sales in...

The Residential Rooftop Report for the first quarter of 2019 is now available for download. The theme is “Heating Up Sales,” and...

February 18, 2019
PV Modules olar design and financial analysis software
PV Pointer: Three tactics for better solar designs under time...

The promise of lower utility bills is a key motivator for most prospective solar customers, but time of use (TOU) rates — which charge...

November 27, 2018
News tigo smart app
Tigo releases SMART app to streamline PV design, commissioning, monitoring

Tigo just streamlined the install and servicing possibilities of its PV systems with Tigo SMART, a mobile application that in...

October 9, 2017
News PV Complete
Details on new CAD software design tool from PVComplete

PVComplete is debuting PVCAD, a comprehensive computer-aided design (CAD) tool, powered by Autodesk technology, that could dramati...

March 27, 2017
News SolaTrim barrier system
SolaTrim debuts Barrier System for solar arrays

SolaTrim, a provider of aftermarket solutions for residential solar integrators and consumers, launched a new technologically adva...

September 8, 2015
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