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GAF Energy expands services to allow roofing partners to become full-fledged solar installation companies

Roof-integrated solar solution provider GAF Energy is expanding the level of solar services available to their roofing partners, paving the way for GAF Energy roofing partners to become individual solar companies. GAF Energy services allow the company’s local roofer partners to access solar-specific expertise and staffing when installing a GAF Energy roof-integrated solar system. Services […]

SAUTER Vision Center, your Building Intelligence Hub

Written on {{ “2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Modified on {{ “2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} All in One: SAUTER Vision Center Version 7 combines building, maintenance and room management with energy management and building analytics. An individual user interface and additional charts simplify the operation and visualisation. The increasing room comfort demands of building users […]

Maryland Energy Administration awards grant to low-to-moderate income housing developer for residential solar microgrid

The Housing Initiative Partnership (HIP), a green nonprofit affordable housing developer based in Prince George’s County, along with Pepco and Emera Technologies, has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to construct a new residential microgrid to power a small subdivision of new Net Zero single family homes in Fairmount Heights, Maryland. […]

Losing the Apple storage tax on M1 Macs

External notebook storage got a bad rap decades ago. Bulky hard drives sucked up power, or, worse, required a wall wart. Even with shock mounting, the fear of sudden drive failure was ever present. But performance was the deal killer. USB 2 was only good for 25-30 MB/s. Firewire 800 more than doubled that, but […]

New EasyDUAL CoolSiC MOSFET power modules with high-performance ceramic enable increased power density and more compact designs

smartbuildingmag.com 29 {{ “2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00” | date “MMM” }} ’21 Written on {{ “2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Modified on {{ “2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00” | date “longDate” }} Infineon News Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) has upgraded the EasyDUAL CoolSiC MOSFET modules with a new aluminum nitride (AIN) ceramic. The devices come in half-bridge configuration with […]

SunRaise completes one of the first community solar projects in Maine

One of the first Net Energy Billing Community Solar projects in Maine is set to start producing clean energy this month. PowerMarket, an employee-owned leader in community solar management, has partnered with SunRaise, a New England solar energy developer, owner and operator, to bring this renewable energy option to Maine utility customers. This 1.35-MW project […]

Data center automation: 10 vendors you should know

The new data center that is evolving doesn’t look like the centers we had come to know in years past. The racks of servers and storage disks may be greatly reduced, or absent altogether, displaced by the cloud. Likewise, the site of staff members moving about — checking cabling, components, and temperatures — may also […]