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2024 Solar Industry Trends: Inverters, Batteries, and Module Innovations The Solar Coaster Continues After 20 years in the industry, I would expect things to be a bit calmer or more sedate, but no, the solar coaster continues its wild ride. The chaos in the inverter industry due to the recently introduced module-level shutdown codes appears to have subsided somewhat, but batteries and panels continue to change at rapid rates. Here are a few of my thoughts regarding this year’s developments, p …

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Today the Pope is visiting SolarTown’s home city, Washington, DC and then will visit New York and Philadelphia. The city is abuzz with excitement and anticipation. The buses are running and the kids are going to school, but the major event is the Pope’s visit. Climate change is on his agenda. A major reason he is visiting Washington is to address a session of Congress to discuss the fight for climate change, a topic that former Popes have not addressed. The Pope believes that it is our res …

PACE Financial Servicing (PFS) along with the Maryland Clean Energy Center (MCEC) announced on August 10th that they would be partnering together to construct a statewide commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program. PACE is a financing tool with national recognition that seeks to classify clean energy upgrades as a permanent benefit to the public, which are financed with no money down and then repaid as benefit assessments on the property tax bill over period of time up to tw …

The 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11) is scheduled for November 30th and will run through December 11th of 2015. The Convention, also known as the UNFCCC was created in 1994 and was ratified by 196 states, according to the official event web page. The Conference’s decision makers, or Conference of Parties, meet every year to create and establish goals in order to combat climate change that they agree to ack …