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…
This year at the NESEA Building Energy conference, SDA will be conducting two workshops about PV system design and grid integration. On Tuesday, March 5th, our morning workshop will explore everything architects, engineers, and general contractors need to know to successfully incorporate photovoltaics into their projects. Our afternoon session will…
The Living Proof video below describes the innovative technology and forward thinking people that made the new Bullitt Center in Seattle a success. SDA worked with Miller Hull’s design team to design and engineer the 244kW PV system, which is one of the building’s most street-visible sustainable features. The Bullitt…
One of SDA’s most recent engineering projects (with partial procurement services) is nearing completion. The ground mounted 500kW array is being built in Swansea, MA for Tim Cabral, an electrical contractor local to the area. Cabral secured financing through a local bank with an agreement in which part of…
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Last week at Solar Power International in Orlando, SEIA president Rhone Resch opened the conference with a discussion on trends that positively and negatively affect the solar industry. One of his strongest cautions was of unhealthy business practices that undercut all of the successes currently enjoyed by the solar…
[tabs slidertype=”images”] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/LRTA-Rooftop3.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC02464.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3358.jpg[/imagetab] [/tabs] The Hale Street Bus Maintenance Facility in Lowell, MA requires a lot of energy to keep the city’s buses operational. The Lowell Regional Transit Authority (LRTA), a municipal organization that runs the facility, partnered with Solar Design…
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TIME magazine recently featured the Bullitt Center as an example for environmentally responsible buildings. Solar Design Associates has been working with the architects at Miller Hull to design canopy and façade-mounted PV arrays for the new office building, currently under construction in Seattle’s Central Area. The photovoltaic system…
