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2020 WIND
NOVEMBER•DECEMBER2019 Volume 13, Issue 6
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BUYERS GUIDE
Battling Wildfires
Microgrids offer a new approach to fire suppression Pg. 8
Great Expectations
Underperformance in U.S. solar market Pg. 16
Fountain of Youth
Pg. 35
12 How to Develop a Successful Solar Project
Permitting Framework
14 Let’s Talk Safe Harbor
Secrets of active 24-year-old lead-acid batteries Pg. 60
Plus Show-in-Print Features:
• Solar and Energy Storage Midwest Pg. 33 • Solar and Energy Storage New York Pg. 34
• Energy Storage North America Pg. 68
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65 How Batteries Will Drive RE Peaker
Plants
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Solar product:
Yaskawa Solectria Solar
30 Solar product spotlight: Performance Monitoring
8 10 28
31 32 33 34
35 60 68
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14 16
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Top story
Solar energy
Solar product spotlight: Performance Monitoring
Solar product spotlight: Software
Solar product spotlight: Maintenance
Show-in-print:
Solar and Energy Storage Midwest
Show-in-print:
Solar and Energy Storage New York
2020 Wind Buyers Guide Energy storage
Show-in-print:
Energy Storage North America
Energy efficiency
Events calendar & advertiser’s list
Battling Wildfires 22 Microgrids offer a new approach
to fire suppression 28
Early Money is the Smartest
Money in Solar Development 31
How to Develop a Successful
Solar Project Permitting Framework 32
Let’s Talk Safe Harbor
Great Expectations 33
Underperformance in
U.S. solar market 34
Solar Thermal Pools
Commercial design and implementation 35 The Power of Time
46 2020 Wind Buyers Giude
Crown Battery
69 Show-in-print: Energy Storage North America
Building Trades Lead California’s 60 Clean Energy Future
Solar product spotlight:
Performance Monitoring 62 Solar product spotlight:
Software 64 Solar product spotlight:
Maintenance 66 Show-in-print:
Solar and Energy Storage Midwest 68 Show-in-print:
Solar and Energy Storage New York 70
2020 Wind Buyers Guide
Fountain of Youth
Secrets of active 24-year-old lead-acid batteries
Cleaner EV Charging Can Reduce Curtailment
How Batteries Will Drive RE Peaker Plants
Fall Maintenance of Battery-Based Off-Grid Systems
Show-in-print:
Energy Storage North America
Simplifying Distribution Automation in Substations and Pole-Tops
72 Insuring a Renewable Future
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