The increasing integration of photovoltaic (PV) technology into the building envelope represents a significant stride in sustainable construction and urban energy management. Building-integrated ...

Taking inspiration from the 3D photonic structures on a Morpho butterfly’s shimmering blue wings, scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have developed colored solar ...

New solar photovoltaic (PV) systems for City of Menlo Park facilities are planned as part of the Belle Haven Community Campus ...

Scientists from South Africa’s Durban University of Technology have investigated the optimized roof pitch angles for integrating PV systems into low-cost buildings. “In the Global South (GS), access ...

Ryan Mayfield led an informative discussion on the history of the NEC PV Hazard Control System rules and the latest changes to the UL 3741 standard.

A Luma Solar roofing system with integrated PV is now a key feature of a sustainable building on the Yale University campus.

Smart Commercial Energy has unveiled a new prefabricated vertical rooftop solar system for the Australian market as part of a ...

What is the PV-Pushback-Effect? How can solar day lamps (SDLs) take advantage of this effect? Solar day lamps (SDLs) are made by simply connecting an LED array to a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel. SDLs ...

Part II of Art. 690 provides the circuit requirements for PV systems. The first requirement it covers is the maximum PV system direct-current (DC) circuit voltage. This value is used when selecting ...

California’s Senate Bill 1374 was aimed to allow multi-residential buildings to use self-consumption of its solar PV panels. Image: DSD Renewables. California governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed a bill ...

Article 690 covers solar installations, except large-scale ones (those are covered in Article 691) [Sec. 690.1], as shown in Fig. 1. There are three important definitions: “Photovoltaic (PV) system” ...