Located in the heart of Harvard Square, and home to such businesses as The Harvard Coop and The Sinclair, 50 Church Street has recently gone solar with the addition of a 66kWac PV system engineered by Solar Design Associates. Commissioned by Trinity Property Management, Solar Design Associates utilized its vast…
Engineered and Designed by Solar Design Associates, the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts recently installed the John B Goodenough Solar Battery Farm, a 127.28 kWdc / 120.0 kWac Ground Mount solar array with a 500.0 kWac / 1.112 MWhr lithium ion battery storage system. The system is aptly named for…
The new Science Center at Amherst College was recently honored as a winner of the 2019 COTE Top 10 Awards by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The Awards recognize projects for their environmental performance as well as for excellence in design. Situated on the liberal arts college’s campus in…
High electricity prices and aging equipment have encouraged the tiny Maine island of Isle au Haut—about half of which is part of Acadia National Park—to secure their future energy needs through the use of an SDA designed solar-plus-storage micro-grid. Work on the new system is set to begin in the…
The World Learning School for International Training was recently featured in Solar Power World for their newly installed PV array which is part of a pledge in making the campus carbon neutral. Solar Design Associates planned the site details and worked with local developer, Dynamic Organics, during the construction of…
Russelectric in Hingham, Massachusetts, recently became the site of a new 250kW(dc) roof-mount PV array complimented by a 137.5kWhr battery for energy storage. SDA completed the system design and commissioning while tailoring the system to serve the needs and requests of Russelectric who developed an in-house micro-grid control platform to…
A 196.5kW ground mount system has been completed at the World Learning School for International Training’s (SIT) Brattleboro, Vermont campus that will help the organization achieve $10,000 in energy savings per year while also mitigating 183 metric tons of carbon in its first year of operation. SDA designed the project…
Cuttyhunk Island, located between Martha’s Vineyard and the south coast of Massachusetts, glided through its first summer of power from its newly constructed micro-grid and has gained some attention for the feat. The new micro-grid serves as a resilient power source for the island while simultaneously reducing its dependence on…
Ever wonder about the origins of Net-Metering and how solar energy was first integrated into the generation mix? Well, it may come as no surprise that Solar Design Associates founder and President, Steven Strong, was more than there when it happened. As a renewable energy and solar pioneer, he has…
HARVARD, Mass., May 8, 2017 – Solar Design Associates, a Harvard, Massachusetts-based solar engineering firm, has received the SunPower “Intelegant Award for Excellence” for an exceptionally well designed and installed commercial solar system completed in 2016 for Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The 143-kilowatt (dc) solar photovoltaic (PV) rooftop canopy…
