Solar Builder’s 2021 Rooftop Mounting Buyer’s Guide for rooftop mounting and racking for res and C&I is comprehensive and user friendly. Includes background info and key offering specs for products from Roof Tech, DynoRaxx, QuickBOLT, IronRidge, SunModo, Magerack, OMG, EcoFasten, Point Load, Sollega, S-5!, and SnapNrack.
In an interview Yann Brandt, solar influencer and CFO of energy storage company FlexGen, talks about trends and what had him go from solar to storage. Some of what he looks at includes how the EV market drives battery cost, the superior nature of tech innovation in storage, how storage simplifies project implementation, and the industry’s lack of take-off agreements.
This Roof Tech webinar walks through attaching panels to rooftop decking vs. rafters. It covers deck attachments’ rising popularity, deck attaching gone awry, the role of water intrusion risks, the upside of rail-less deck attaching, the application of decking and rafter attachments to the same design, and adjustments on the fly and go deck when a rafter is missed.
Tesla’s recent price hikes for their solar roof, 40-72% increases for some new and already contract signed projects, have spawned lawsuits over changed contracts. The reasons for the price hikes are unclear, and the move has eroded trust for consumers around Tesla and going solar, something not fortuitous given Tesla’s reputation for less than stellar customer service.
Sunnova is now offering its lease services for solar+storage to nine new states: Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Florida, New York and Rhode Island. Also, 22 new states can tap Enphase batteries through Sunnova’s loan program. The lease expansion includes balanced billing, competitive pricing, and insurance coverage.
SEIA’s got a free database, the Diverse Suppliers Database, that highlights and promotes minority, women, disabled, veteran, and LGBTQ+ owned businesses in solar and storage. The database includes 120 companies and is open for more submissions. It was created to help companies that have difficulty finding diverse businesses in the industry.
Blue Planet Energy now offers new zero-money-down financing for solar-plus-storage microgrids for California businesses. Their Hybrid Power Purchase Agreement (hPPA) financing models is designed to remove the barrier of upfront cost and is combined with their Blue Ion LX battery offering.
NeoVolta is adding to their advanced NV14 energy storage system: a 6,000-cycle lithium-iron phosphate battery. This means a 50% longer life than the original 4,000-cycle product and should last 16.5 years under daily cycling. Their NV24 add-on battery, meant to expand NV14’s storage capacity, has also been upgraded to 6,000 cycles.
ECP, investor in energy transition, electrification and decarbonization infrastructure assets, acquired Pivot Energy, developer in commercial and community solar. Pivot feels that the merger will encourage project development, expand their product offerings and support ownership of renewable projects.
An IEA report states that global fossil fuel spending in the private sector continues to slow while clean energy investment keeps rising, not enough is being done on climate change, and fossil fuel companies like BP, Total, Shell and Eni are deemphasizing exploration and opting to tap existing reserves – and spending more on clean energy to keep activist investors happy.