Renewable IPP’s 1.2 megawatt solar farm in Willow. The company has started construction of an 8.5 megawatt project in Houston. Photographed on Friday 15 November 2019. (Loren Holmes / ADN) What will be the largest solar panel farm in Alaska has broken ground on land in Houston, with plans to power 1,400 homes when the […]
Interest in microgrids has grown in parallel with our fixation about distributed energy resources. Their purpose is to distribute electricity within a localized network, drawing upon onsite generation as needed, with the capability of islanding and operating autonomously from the grid during outages. Frequently, the justification for operating a microgrid has been economics as in […]
What is PV voltage? PV voltage, or photovoltaic voltage, is the energy produced by a single PV cell. Each PV cell creates an open circuit voltage, typically called VOC. Under standard test conditions, a PV cell will produce about 0.5 or 0.6 volts, no matter how big or small the cell actually is. What is […]
About 20% of planned capacity for utility-scale solar projects was delayed in the first half of 2022, according to recent analysis from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, confirming reports from developers of growing delays. Developers are planning to install 17.8 GW of utility-scale solar capacity this year, EIA said. But from January through June, just 4.2 […]
To many people in New Jersey, TREC and SuSi might sound like characters from a sci-fi movie or a weird comedy group. But for members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, it’s all real and can mean the difference between going to work or collecting unemployment. Increasingly, the skilled electricians in our organization are […]
The five main uses of solar energy are solar electricity, solar water heating, solar heating, solar ventilation and solar lighting. There are more uses for solar energy, but homes and businesses typically use solar energy for these purposes. What is solar energy made of? Solar energy is any type of energy generated by the sun. […]
