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The Future of Residential Solar Energy
Jun 14th
Posted on June 7, 2010
As I’ve watched the residential solar energy market for the past year I’ve often wondered where it is heading. Who will emerge as the dominant players? Will the panel manufacturers ultimately control the industry or will those on the leasing and finance side? How will rebates look in years to come? Will the federal and local governments continue to support residential solar energy?
I’m not enough of a clairvoyant to be able to predict who will dominate the market, but I will say that there is some pretty amazing progress being made. Here are my favorite advances which I More >
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Loading ...SolarBridge gets $15 million venture investment (#Austin #PV #MicroInverter)
Apr 26th
SolarBridge gets $15 million venture investment
Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies has raised $15 million to build out operations for its first product launch.
Rho Ventures and Battery Ventures made the investment. SolarBridge has raised a total of $27 million.
SolarBridge develops technology to make solar panels more efficient. It is one of about two dozen companies that has received money from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The fund invested $1.5 million in the company in March.
Founded in 2004 using technology licensed from the University of Illinois, SolarBridge plans to launch its first product by the end of More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...#Solar #PV Revolution! Micro-#Inverters – PV modules that directly produce AC Power – (#renewable #cleantech)
Feb 14th
February 15, 2010 The Transition from Standard PV to AC Modules by Miles C. Russell, GreenRay Solar
Here is a little-known historic event: the first-ever grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) system in the U.S. was powered up in 1979 on the University of Texas campus in Arlington. I was a young engineer at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory then, and was sent to document that system’s birth. As I recall, the initial operation of that inaugural PV system garnered little attention. In retrospect this was truly a momentous occasion, offering a faint glimpse of a very bright future.
In the 30 years since, a More >
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