As we enter the 2017 energy market, solar integrated roofing will become a very popular option toward virtually any roofing project, as we noted here. Builders are now including solar ready roofing to their construction projects to meet building measures required by the State of California. With trends in solarRead More

UNFI (United Natural Foods Inc.) partnered with Meridian Solar to build a 655-kW roof-top solar electric system on its 590,000 square foot distribution center in Lancaster, Texas. Using energy harnessed from the sun, UNFI can now store and deliver its more than 65,000 products while adhering to their corporate responsibilityRead More

Pinnipeds — the all-encompassing classification for seals, sea lions and similar semiaquatic marine mammals — just want to swim and play and eat fish and live with other marine mammals in peace. But sometimes unfortunate things happen — they may get trapped in nets, injured by fishing hooks or sufferRead More

If you could create the perfect community to live in, what would it look like? What would be essential to your happiness? A group from Bainbridge Island, Wash., asked these questions when embarking on a new housing development a few years back. Stacked apartment complexes and cookie-cutter houses had beenRead More

JM Family Enterprises Inc. | Deerfield Beach, Florida | 150 kW Developer: JM Family Enterprises Contractors: Advanced Green Technologies, Advanced Roofing Inc. Modules: Suniva Inverters: Advanced Energy Mounting: SunLink JM Family Enterprises Inc. — South Florida’s largest privately-owned company (including subsidiary JM Lexus, the largest-volume Lexus dealership in the world) — engagedRead More

Healthy Planet Partners LLC (HPP), a Clean Energy Solutions Fund that finances, implements and maintains distributed energy and energy efficiency projects that optimize performance in commercial buildings, and Kyocera Solar Inc. announced today the completion of a solar rooftop and carport system at the Seattle Mariners Spring Training facility inRead More

Fronius USA recently hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of ITRAC, the Innovations Test Research And Application Center, significantly expanding the rooftop PV array above its 400,000-square-foot manufacturing plant and U.S. headquarters in Portage, Indiana. The PV system was expanded to 211 kW. The facility, housing Fronius USA’sRead More

SoCore Energy a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Edison International, and Cinemark Holdings Inc. have lit up the big screen with solar power at the Cinemark Tinseltown theatre in Rochester, N.Y. As part of a larger national rollout of Cinemark’s solar installations by SoCore Energy, this theatre has connected 315 kW of solarRead More

Dominion Virginia Power continues to add megawatts to its Solar Partnership Program by installing 240 photovoltaic panels on the rooftop of Virginia Union University’s Thomas H. Henderson Center. The system will be capable of generating about 70 kW of electricity – enough to power nearly 18 homes. The Henderson Center servesRead More

Fortinet, a provider of network security appliances, has flipped the switch on a 900-kW solar electric system which blankets its Santa Clara, Calif., corporate campus. Fortinet’s commitment to sustainable business practices is now clearly exhibited with the installation of this commercial solar energy system which covers two rooftops and three parkingRead More