The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently set a new goal for the National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) that calls on community solar systems to power the equivalent of 5 million households by 2025. The NCSP is an active coalition of community members, developers, utilities, financial institutions, governments and other solar stakeholders with a mission …
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3 Key Ways Utility Solar Can Strengthen the U.S. Grid – and How TrinaPro Can Help
One of the most urgent challenges in the current U.S. energy system involves improving and strengthening the power grid. Originally built to last 50 years, major parts of this vast system are now close to 100 years old, making age- and weather-related outages increasingly common. Fortunately, utility-scale solar offers many ways to help improve the durability …
Trinasolar & CounterpointeSRE, Large-Scale Solar Financier, Announce Partnership
Trina Solar is excited to announce our new partnership with Counterpointe Sustainable Real Estate (CounterpointeSRE), which provides capital to sustainable and energy-efficient infrastructure in commercial and multifamily buildings. This firm has been heavily involved in financing carbon pollution cuts at a large scale, including serving the solar PV industry at a national level. Since 2013, …
In Texas, HOAs Can No Longer Unreasonably Restrict Homeowners From Installing Rooftop PV Systems
For many people, buying a house in a homeowners’ association (HOA) is a good way to protect their property value. However, in order to preserve property value, HOAs can also place wide-ranging restrictions on homeowners who want to make upgrades and renovations to their houses. Case in point: installing rooftop solar panels. Solar panel access …
Trinasolar’s CSR 2019-2020 Series No. 2: Caring for the Planet
Previously, in our series highlighting Trina Solar’s Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2019-2020, we focused on Trina’s trek toward its internal sustainable development goals. In this second installment of the series, we’ll take a look at Trina’s commitment to caring for the planet beyond the company’s internal operations. This means ensuring sustainable purchasing and supply chains, …
Residential Installer Looking to Learn More About 210mm Solar Technology? We’ve Got An eBook for That
In the highly competitive solar industry, we original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have to constantly innovate what we make to work better for our installer customers. It’s all about boosting efficiency, improving power gains and cutting levelized cost of energy (LCOE). One such recent innovation has seen OEMs increasing the solar wafer sizes to 210mm, something we …
Why 210mm Solar Delivers the Low LCOE and Scalability Needed for the Clean Energy Revolution
For years, manufacturers have increased wafer sizes for PV modules as the industry debated how big wafers should be. We see that debate coming to an end, with the opportunity to standardize around the 210mm wafer size. The industry is heading to settlement in the “how big” debate that will last at least several years. …
Trinasolar’s CSR 2019-2020 Series: Trina’s Trek Toward Its Sustainable Development Goals
At Trina Solar, we take environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues quite seriously. To show our commitment to this endeavor, we recently released the Trina Solar Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2019-2020. This comprehensive report covers a range of topics, including corporate governance, sustainability efforts, employee well-being and several others. To make this content more manageable …
How Trinasolar’s 210 Vertex Modules Help Achieve Lowest LCOE
From governments to investors, and from residents to corporations, the country continues driving toward ambitious carbon-neutral goals. Achieving these targets will be no easy endeavor, and it will fall in part on solar developers and EPCs to find the best solutions. To meet this growing demand, they’ll need modules that can continue delivering reliable …
What should new investors know about identifying a good solar project partner?
The transition to net-zero carbon pollution is now fully underway, making renewables a compelling investment proposition. Now, ambitious ESG goals announced by major companies and institutions are forcing investors to migrate from traditional fossil fuels to renewable energy investments, such as solar. Sixty-five percent of respondents to Investcorp’s Global Investors Trends Survey 2021 cited the …
