In some parts of the country, the costs of solar-plus-storage are beating grid prices, which is good news for the solar industry and the environment.
For example, in Nevada, regulators in 2019 approved three solar-plus-storage power purchase agreements (PPA) for Berkshire Hathaway Energy ranging from $31/MWh to $37/MWh. In comparison, levelized prices for grid power now […]
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has implemented a new update that will ultimately make energy modeling simpler, says Chris Schaffner, instructor for HeatSpring’s Energy Modeling in eQUEST course.
ASHRAE’s standard 90.1, which covers energy codes, updates every few years–along with the rest of the standards. The 2016 version, just now being […]
In the past, a small crew of workers with a truck served as a whole solar company, and each crew member had a good grasp of the basics of the industry. They all were well-versed enough in the industry to talk to and sell to customers, which afforded them a fair amount of job mobility […]
This article is reprinted with permission from Living Architecture Monitor – June, 2016
The ‘Little Wing’ office building was constructed on a corner lot in Seattle next to existing, adjacent residential buildings in 2013. The building’s core was placed to one side in order to maximize the efficiency of plumbing utilities and to provide a buffer […]
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