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Contractor’s Corner: Best of 2015-2021

It’s the end of an era. After more than 75 interviews over six years, Solar Power World editor-in-chief Kelly Pickerel is passing the Contractor’s Corner podcast torch to managing editor Kelsey Misbrener. The SPW team started the interview series back in 2012, before podcasts were even recognized as a valuable media resource. While we have […]

Mouser Electronics and Hartland Controls Announce Global Distribution Agreement

Written on {{ “2021-12-14T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Modified on {{ “2021-12-14T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorised global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, announces a global distribution agreement with Hartland Controls, a Littelfuse company and supplier of components used in HVAC and other industrial applications. According to the […]

EDP Renewables develops 1.2-MW community solar + storage project in New York

EDP Renewables’ distributed generation subsidiary completed a 1.2-MW solar + storage project that will serve an affordable housing development in Westchester County, New York. The project is sited on a rooftop and coupled with a 1-MW battery. It is the 14th community solar project EDPR developed in New York, and PowerMarket will provide customer acquisition […]

GRID Alternatives installing 200 kW of solar in California tribal communities

A donation from a regional foundation will result in 200 kW of solar installed in tribal communities in San Diego County and Bishop, California. The Sempra Foundation has donated more than $350,000 to GRID Alternatives‘ Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund, which will result in arrays installed at single-family homes and apartment buildings in four reservations. “Energy […]

MCE adds 5-MW Lake Herman Solar Project to energy portfolio

California community choice aggregator MCE announced the 5-MW Lake Herman Solar Project — completed with prevailing wage and 52% local labor — is now operational, serving approximately 2,000 homes a year with 100% renewable power. The project, developed in partnership with San Francisco-based Renewable Properties and owned by Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company, is the first […]

Senate Finance Committee adds inverters, trackers to BBB manufacturing incentive list

The Senate Finance Committee released its draft version of the Build Back Better Act on Dec. 11 and added domestic manufacturing incentives for inverters and trackers. SEIA has been working to get those technologies included in the bill. The inverter incentives in this version include: Central inverters (>1 MW capacity): 2.5¢/W Utility inverters (>170 kW, ≤1 […]

Infineon and MCI supply sensors for air quality measurement to schools in Carinthia and Tyrol

Written on {{ “2021-12-13T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Modified on {{ “2021-12-13T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Five Higher Technical Schools (Höhere Technische Lehranstalten, HTLs) in Carinthia and six in Tyrol received high-precision CO 2 sensors from Infineon Technologies Austria AG and MCI in Innsbruck. The teams of students will use them to build CO 2 alarm lights […]

Particularly accurate measurement with reduced form factor: XENSIVTM PAS CO2 sensor from Infineon at Rutronik

smartbuildingmag.com 13 {{ “2021-12-13T00:00:00+00:00” | date “MMM” }} ’21 Written on {{ “2021-12-13T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Modified on {{ “2021-12-13T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Rutronik News Less susceptible to interference: the XENSIVTM PAS CO2 sensor uses the principle of photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS), which enables a significant reduction in form factor and at the same time a […]