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2018
ENERGY STORAGE Buyers Guide
Smart O -Grid Will Revolutionize Solar Power
How to Keep Your Turbine Spinning
Powering the Future with the Winds of Change
Plus Show-in-Print Features:
• NABCEP’s 7th Annual Continuing Education Conference
• California Solar Power Expo
• ESA Energy Storage 28th Annual
Conference & Expo
• IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition
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On our cover...
Baker Electric Solar designed and installed a 482.98kW rooftop solar system comprised of 1,558 solar modules, for Marine Group Boat Works (MGBW), providing an 81% reduction in its annual electricity consumed. Projections also indicate that MGBW will save an estimated $154,196 in energy costs in the first year. The rooftop solar installation is located at MGBW’s 35,000sq. ft. facility in National City, CA.
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• OMCO SOLAR Introducing the
Field-Fast Racking system. SEE OUR AD ON PAGE 25
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Baker Electric
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Top story 49 Solar energy
Show-in-print :
California Solar Power Expo
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Show-in-Print:
NABCEP’s 7th Annual Continuing Education Conference
Solar spotlight:
Racking & Mounting
54 Powering the Future with the Winds of Change
Solar product spotlight:
Racking & Mounting 58
Solar product spotlight:
Tracking Systems 60
Solar product spotlight:
Solar Structures & Carports 63
Solar product spotlight: 76 Ground Screws
Solar product spotlight: 78 Metal Fabrication for Solar Structures
Wind product spotlight: Bolts & Fasteners
Wind product spotlight: Tensioners & Torque Systems
50 Wind power
2018 Energy Storage Buyers Guide
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Show-in-Print: NABCEP’s 7th Annual 80 Continuing Education Conference
Smart Off-Grid Will Revolutionize Solar Power
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Standardizing community-scale solar
Large Array Solar Panel Cleaning
Custom-Made in the USA
PV System Math
Fewer available sites + poor planning = money down the drain
Global Rise of Solar Power
Giving Canadian mines a place in the sun
Trade Secrets
Protecting clean energy technology
Will Solar Remain King?
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Solar product spotlight:
Racking & Mounting
Solar product spotlight:
Tracking Systems
Solar product spotlight:
Solar Structures & Carports
Solar product spotlight:
Ground Screws
Solar product spotlight:
Metal Fabrication for Solar Structures
Show-in-print:
NABCEP’s 7th Annual Continuing Education Conference
Show-in-print:
California Solar Power Expo
How to Keep Your Turbine Spinning
52 The Wind Industry Goes Craneless 54 Powering the Future with the
Winds of Change
58 Wind product spotlight:
Bolts & Fasteners
60 Wind product spotlight: Tensioners & Torque Systems
63 2018 Energy Storage Buyers Guide 76 Show-in-print:
ESA Energy Storage 28th Annual Conference & Expo
78 Show-in-print:
IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition
80 Blockchain’s Promise to Revolutionize the Energy Sector
2018 Energy Storage Buyers Guide
Show-in-Print: ESA Energy Storage 28th Annual Conference & Expo
Show-in-Print: IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition
Energy efficiency
82 Events calendar & advertiser’s list
MARCH•APRIL 2018 Volume 12, Issue 2
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