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Secure Power Supply finds a home among extreme Oklahoma weather

Oklahoma residents are no strangers to booming summer thunderstorms, hail and the unfortunate tornado roaring through their state. With such...
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Winter outages have your customer thinking battery backup?

As another season of powerful winter storms takes its toll on the East Coast, many installers will be greeted at...
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Properly sizing a PV inverter breaker

Believe it or not, code references for determining the calculation to adequately size a PV inverter breaker are longer than...
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Calendar maker opts for year-round clean power

Calendar Club, a national retailer of seasonal calendars, toys and games, recently commissioned a 247 kW solar system on the...
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Packing three megawatts at SunWest Fruit’s shipping plant

Workers at SunWest Fruit Company’s packing and shipping plant in Parlier, California, like its three-megawatt solar system, work from dawn...
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Calculating Max PV Voltage is Not Scary

In 2008, the National Electrical Code (NEC) added a second paragraph to 690.7(A) stating, “When open-circuit voltage temperature coefficients are...
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Unusable land becomes solar farm in Maryland

Harsh winter weather, abandoned telephone poles and a steep 25-percent grade couldn’t stop Solar Tech from completing and commissioning the...
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New York machine shop won’t be left in the dark

Carter, Milchman & Frank’s 25,000-square-foot warehouse in Queens, New York, expects to be energy-neutral with the commissioning of its 96...
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San Jose’s WestGate Church gets power from above

Silicon Valley’s WestGate Church looks to the heavens for power since installing a 153 kW rooftop solar system. The church’s electricity...
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Bay Area organic farm grows its own power

The fertile lands south of the famed Silicon Valley are home to thousands of acres of farmland. One such farm,...
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