Bridgestone Americas announced its first ground-mounted solar array providing power directly to the manufacturing process. The new solar array is located at the company’s Aiken County, South Carolina, Passenger/Light Truck Tire Plant in Graniteville, South Carolina. The new installation includes approximately 8 acres of solar panels that generate 2 MW of energy. Bridgestone’s first ground-mounted…
Although residential solar customers want systems with the highest power ratings for maximum utility cost savings, aesthetics still reign supreme when it comes to solar panel choice. If even a sliver of an array will be seen by neighbors, homeowners will usually pick all-black modules for a sleek, finished system. There aren’t many differences between…
By Senthil Balasubramanian, CEO of Sistine Solar, Inc. “You can have any color car so long as it is black”, quipped Henry Ford a century ago. The plethora of colors that cars come in today would have seemed wishful thinking to the nascent auto industry of the 1920s. It begs an intriguing question: if the…
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