Month: June 2022

Renu Energy Solutions has completed an 18-kW solar project at the greenhouse of Johnson C. Smith University’s (JCSU) Sustainability Village, an innovative living-learning prototype for students in Charlotte, North Carolina. The installation atop the 8,600-sq-ft greenhouse, which features a hydroponic garden and aquaponic facility built to serve as a teaching tool for university students and …

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Nibezun, a Native-led nonprofit that seeks to revitalize and preserve Wabanaki culture, welcomed a new solar array and heat pump system to deliver sustainable electricity and heat to its facilities. Credit: Everybody Solar Partnering with Everybody Solar, nearly $60,000 was raised from foundations and individual donors, to install the solar array and heat pump system, …

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Last week, the Supreme Court of North Carolina issued an order in a case between a Wake County homeowner and their homeowner’s association (HOA) affirming state law that protects homeowners’ right to install rooftop solar. The North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, submitted a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of …

NC Supreme Court rules that HOAs cannot deny homeowners from installing solar Read More »

Construction is completed on an 8.5-MW solar + storage system in Norfolk, Nebraska, which is currently the largest PV project in the state. Additionally, this is the first large-scale battery storage system paired with solar on Nebraska Public Power District’s network. The solar + storage project was developed and is operated by Sol Systems in …

Nebraska’s largest PV project is a community solar system Read More »