A little before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, an engineer named Matthew Gallelli crouched on the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay, pulled on a pair of ear protectors, and flipped a switch. A few seconds later, a device resembling a snow maker began to rumble, then produced a great and deafening …
Warming Is Getting Worse. So They Just Tested a Way to Deflect the Sun. Read More »
Installers participating in Tigo’s Green Glove program are guided from solar design through project commissioning. April 2, 2024 Tigo Energy, a solar component and software provider, released a new Total Quality Solar training program that borrows from the manufacturing principles of total quality management, a principle that defines an organization-wide effort to continuously improve products …
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Details around the Inflation Reduction Act’s new Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Tax Credit (48C) have been released by the DOE, Dept. of the Treasury and IRS. This program is distributing $4 billion in credits for over 100 projects across 35 states that accelerate domestic clean energy manufacturing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at industrial facilities. …
First round of 48C Advanced Energy ITC dollars distributed by DOE Read More »
Brightcore Energy is developing a 2.2-MWDC portfolio of solar projects for the Facilities Organization at Princeton University that will be installed on rooftop and canopy-mounted structures on the University’s campus in Princeton, New Jersey. The project consists of four arrays, two of which will be rooftop-mounted and two canopy-mounted. The rooftop projects will be installed …
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On March 30, LifeLine Animal Project, the state’s largest animal welfare organization, in partnership with RE-volv and its Georgia Tech Solar Ambassador chapter, celebrated the installation of a new 200-kW solar system. With solar, LifeLine will save $1.6 million on electrical bills over the life of the system, which it will re-invest in animal welfare …
Georgia’s largest animal shelter adds 200-kW solar array Read More »
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The report defines implementation actions, highly detailed in the PR 100 Final Report, but which are summarized into five actions from immediate to long-term to recurring. April 1, 2024 in 2017, when back-to-back hurricanes destroyed around 80% of Puerto Rico’s electric grid and resulted in thousands of lives lost, Puerto Rico passed Act 17, a …
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced funding for 17 battery recycling projects and also announces the launch of Battery Workforce Initiative to train tomorrow’s workers. April 1, 2024 With analysts from S&P Global Mobility forecasting that electric vehicles (EV) could make up half of automotive sales by 2030, several challenging must be overcome in order …
The Dept. of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have issued procedural guidance for the 2024 program year of the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program under Section 48(e) of the Internal Revenue Code. Treasury also announced the program would open for applications during the second quarter of 2024. GRID Alternatives This program through the Inflation …
Application program for 2024 low-income communities ITC bonus opens Q2 Read More »
Advancements in remote measurement can help solar companies to bypass inefficient and error-prone site visits to measure and record roof dimensions, azimuth, pitch, and localized shading at a given site in a more consistent and repeatable manner April 1, 2024 A recent Wall Street Journal article calls out that the state of the solar industry …
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