Why SunEdison’s Stock Dropped 50% in 3 Weeks and How You Can Avoid This in Your Own Solar Development SunEdison has climbed up the ladder to become the world’s largest renewable energy service provider, but it has come at a cost. Many people believe that they’re on a trajectory similar to the traditional energy service providers, like Duke Energy,… Continue reading “Why SunEdison’s Stock Dropped 50% in 3 Weeks and How You Can Avoid This in Your Own Solar Development”
FREE Lecture: High Performance Building Assemblies Take Peter Yost’s Free High Performance Building Assemblies Lecture today. Spend an hour learning about building assemblies with Peter Yost of BuildingGreen. Heat dries them out, so the more we manage energy flows through our building assemblies, the more we need… Continue reading “FREE Lecture: High Performance Building Assemblies”
“Deep Energy Retrofits” with Marc Rosenbaum Right now, sitting in his office on Martha’s Vineyard, Marc Rosenbaum is building “Deep Energy Retrofits”, the newest Building Energy Masters Series offering. Here’s a recent update from Marc: I’m happy to report that the ten weeks of presentation powerpoints are… Continue reading ““Deep Energy Retrofits” with Marc Rosenbaum”
Solar Women Summer Series: Business Development in Solar The Solar Women Summer Series continues with Danielle Sheppard, Business Development Associate at Locus Energy headquartered in San Francisco, CA. What do you do in the solar industry? How’d you get started? My first experience in the solar industry was an entry-level… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Business Development in Solar”
FREE Lecture: Low Carbon Building Take Bruce King‘s Free Low Carbon Building Lecture today. What good is a “Net-Zero” building if just the act of making it dumps a huge load of CO2 into the air? The urgency of climate disruption demands that we… Continue reading “FREE Lecture: Low Carbon Building”
FREE Lecture: Life-Centered Design Take Carol Venolia‘s FREE Life-Centered Design Lecture a today! There’s more to ecological building than doing less harm. In Carol’s free lecture, you’ll learn the ten things we human organisms crave from our surroundings so that you can create built environments that… Continue reading “FREE Lecture: Life-Centered Design”
Free Lecture: Integrative Design Process Join expert instructor Bill Reed for his Integrative Design Process Free Lecture, presented with partner Sustainable Building Advisor (SBA). An integrative process consistently produces cost-effective solutions, higher performance, healthier living systems, elegant design, reduced time to market, and is a heck… Continue reading “Free Lecture: Integrative Design Process”
FREE TOOL: Online Ventilation Sizing & Commissioning Tools Download Rick Karg’s Toolbox of Online Ventilation Sizing and Commissioning Tools for FREE. These free online tools will allow architects, engineers, ventilation designers and installers to size ASHRAE 62.22013 ventilation, determine the flow rate of existing ventilation equipment, determine the electrical… Continue reading “FREE TOOL: Online Ventilation Sizing & Commissioning Tools”
Solar Women Summer Series: Reaching a Majority Female Office Sarah Gaddis and Jodi White work at BayWa r.e. Solar Systems, a Solar PV organization dedicated to supporting local, independent installers by offering only a select group of top-quality products. Sarah and Jodi spoke with us about their roles at BayWa r.e., their… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Reaching a Majority Female Office”
Free Lecture: Sustainable Roofing? There’s an App for That! It would be great to be able to sell the latest energy and environmental features of modern commercial roofing systems, but it can be a challenge to find tools that help you quantify the benefits for your clients and customers. How… Continue reading “Free Lecture: Sustainable Roofing? There’s an App for That!”
Life Cycle of a Vertical Drilling Fluid In this article, Brock Yordy, columnist for National Driller, outlines the life cycle of drilling fluids from creation to disposal. Brock teaches Drilling Fluids Management, a 6-week master class for industrial drilling companies. Drilling fluids management is a term interpreted differently… Continue reading “Life Cycle of a Vertical Drilling Fluid”
Free Lecture: Net Zero Water For Building and Sites Through a combination of rainfall harvesting, aggressive conservation, and water recycling, our buildings and sites can achieve self-sufficiency and reduce or eliminate their reliance on municipal water infrastructure. This free lecture, taught by architectural and landscape expert Jeffrey Bruce (FASLA, LEED,… Continue reading “Free Lecture: Net Zero Water For Building and Sites”
The Advantages of Adding Storage to Your Commercial Solar PV Design In the article below, Christopher LaForge, IREC-Certified Master Trainer, NABCEP-Certified PV Installation Professional, and CEO of Great Northern Solar, provides detail about the advantages of adding storage to your commercial solar PV design. Learning Takeaways: By storing solar generation during the… Continue reading “The Advantages of Adding Storage to Your Commercial Solar PV Design”
Maximizing Effectiveness in Sustainable Building Projects The following piece was written by HeatSpring Instructor Ann V. Edminster, M.Arch., LEED AP. Ann will be teaching HeatSpring’s Sustainable Building Advisor (SBA) course in October. Takeaways: While working on zero energy homes, a highly efficient, airtight building enclosure is a must and… Continue reading “Maximizing Effectiveness in Sustainable Building Projects”
The Solar Developer’s Modeling Challenge: How Much Detail Is Enough? In the article below, Chris Lord, HeatSpring’s expert instructor, outlines when and why detail in modeling cash flows from a renewable energy project really matters. Key Takeaways: Modeling forces us to confront the troubling “unknowns” about our project, and that… Continue reading “The Solar Developer’s Modeling Challenge: How Much Detail Is Enough?”
Residential vs. Commercial Ground Loop Design Software Options In this article, Ryan Carda, HeatSpring instructor and President of Geo-Connections, Inc., shares the differences between residential and commercial ground loop design software. Join his live webinar on August 19th at 10AM Central (see below for details). Geo-Connections, Inc makes web-based ground loop… Continue reading “Residential vs. Commercial Ground Loop Design Software Options”
Free Tool: Site Lease vs. Buy Modeling Calculator Chris Lord’s FREE Site Lease vs. Buy Modeling Calculator allows users to compare a lease rate against a potential purchase of a solar PV site where the lease rate (including escalator) is known. This tool is used in HeatSpring’s Financial Modeling… Continue reading “Free Tool: Site Lease vs. Buy Modeling Calculator”
Free Lecture: Multiple Mod-con Boiler Concepts In this new free lecture, Roy Collver, President, OTBC Inc, examines important details you should know when combining two or more boilers into a single heating plant. He covers applications from large residential, up to bigger commercial and institutional systems. Enroll… Continue reading “Free Lecture: Multiple Mod-con Boiler Concepts”
SolarWorld Installer Summit in Portland, OR The 2015 Installer Summit (Aug. 25-27) is an annual sales, marketing, and technical training event at SolarWorld’s U.S. manufacturing headquarters, in Portland, OR. This year SolarWorld will be celebrating their 40th Anniversary of US manufacturing so if you attend, you… Continue reading “SolarWorld Installer Summit in Portland, OR”
Solar Women Summer Series: Teaching the Power of Solar In this week’s Solar Women Summer Series feature, Signe Periera, seventh grade earth science teacher at Dedham Country Day School, shares how she’s teaching her students about solar energy. Signe began her career in education in 1997 in Cambridge, MA.… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Teaching the Power of Solar”