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…
Here are some photo highlights from last Friday’s ribbon cutting ceremony for the Harvard Community Solar Garden! Great achievements ensure many happy faces!
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…
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…
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February 2012—This month Environmental Building News features an update on the viability of solar PV in the US energy market in an article entitled, “For Cheap Solar, Look to Laws, Not Labs” by Paula Melton. The piece points out that the critical path for PV is to achieve grid parity,…
