I am increasingly concerned that the solar and storage industry is facing the biggest safety challenge of its 50-year history. The convergen...
Although the renewable energy sector continues to experience challenges ranging from grid instability and labor shortages to permitting dela...
As the demand for solar rises in the United States, it is crucial for solar installation companies to uphold the utmost priority of worker s...
The following article appears in the Q3 2023 issue of Solar Builder magazine. Subscribe for free (print, digital, or both) right here. The &...
Lithium-ion batteries are prevalent in many industries and applications, but they can be dangerous without the users even realizing there is...
Photo by Los Muertos Crew from Pexels The rising popularity of renewable energy sources has led to an increase in solar panel installations....
Technology group Wärtsilä achieved an important energy storage system (ESS) safety milestone last week. Its GridSolv Quantum techn...
The S200 battery modules from long-duration, iron flow battery specialists ESS Tech Inc. are now certified under UL 1973. This standard for ...
Rooftop solar safety has changed rapidly in recent years fueled by a combination of regulation and innovation. Here, Bill Brooks, NEC Expert...
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is partnering with Kenzen to pilot wearable heat monitoring technology on multiple construction projects. ...
The Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Test and Commercialization Center, owned by the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technol...
As demand and installations of lithium-ion (li-ion) battery energy storage systems increase, fire protection and detection systems are criti...
Zurich North America, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Everguard.ai and Rudolph Libbe Group (RLG) are working with digital health and IoT-enable...
The worldwide expansion of photovoltaic (PV) installations is also giving rise to new areas of application in challenging environmental cond...
Urban Electric Power has a rechargeable alkaline battery (zinc manganese-dioxide) that’s completed a critical UL testing standard for ...
A wide range of SimpliPhi Power’s energy storage products and system configurations were recently approved for Certification un...
The IMO FireRaptor’s latest UL PVRSS listing is with the SMA Sunny Boy range of solar inverters from 3 kW to 7.7 kW and also the SMA T...
Stronghold by PSG, the dropped objects prevention brand of Pure Safety Group (PSG), announces the introduction of all-in-one tool tether kit...
The IMO FireRaptor is the first ever NEC2017 and NEC2020 compliant module level rapid shutdown product tested and certified for AFCI interfe...
Solar PV system-caused fires are rare, but they are on the rise in the United States. The numbers here are hard to track down, but Lawrence ...
