Sunrise brief: Google deploys ‘dragon scale’ solar shingles at its Silicon Valley campus
Also on the rise: Large format modules are gaining market share and presenting a new set of challenges, Honeywell and Duke will jointly test a flow battery, and Sunnova will offer EV charging through a partnership with ChargePoint.
Solaria wins a round in its solar shingle patent case against Canadian Solar
The patents cover shingled solar modules and a process for separating pv strips from solar cells for use in shingled solar modules.
Sunnova to offer EV charging through partner ChargePoint
The two plan to embed ChargePoint software in customers’ Sunnova portal to help optimize car charging with other home energy demands.
Honeywell, Duke Energy partner on flow battery test project
The battery, which uses an electrolyte to convert chemical energy into electricity for storage and deployment, will begin testing in 2022 at Duke Energy’s Emerging Technology and Innovation Center in Mount Holly, North Carolina.
Watch: Dragon scale solar tiles installed on Google buildings in Silicon Valley
Some 90,000 individual solar panels will generate enough electricity to cover around 40% of the electricity use in two buildings for Google.
Sunrise brief: Seattle arena switches on its rooftop solar array
Also on the rise: SEIA fires back at A-SMACC’s antidumping tariff request, and Enphase launches a microinverter line for microgrids.
Watch: Solar installation completed at Climate Pledge Arena
The 1.2 MW installation will join a host of other renewable resources in powering the stadium’s 11 MW electricity load.
Enphase launches microgrid-forming microinverter line
The IQ8 solar microinverters are capable of forming a microgrid during a power outage using only sunlight, providing backup power without a battery. The systems also allow any size Enphase battery to be paired with a solar system.
Sunrise brief: Hawaii’s approach to smart inverters offers a model to follow
Also on the rise: Facebook signs a PPA for 160 MW in Virginia, and the solar sector provided jobs to 231,000 in the U.S. in 2020.
Facebook signs PPA for 160 MW of solar in Virginia
Chester Solar will be built near Richmond by co-developers D.E. Shaw and Torch Clean Energy.
