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Automation and Robotics Can Help Address Worker Efficiency While Delivering Business Results Through Smart Construction

While we move through 2025, pen and paper remain as familiar on construction sites as ever, and many construction managers still rely on intuition and experience over the promises of technology or robotic innovation.

Generac Unveils the Most Powerful Air-Cooled Home Standby Generator on the Market

The new design seamlessly integrates across Generac's product ecosystem, giving customers more control over their energy needs as they navigate severe weather, diminishing grid reliability and rising energy costs

Training Your Team for Drone Roof Inspections: Best Practices for Roofing Contractors

This guide will help you get the most out of your drone solution. Read on to learn about necessary training, keeping drones ready for flight, safety protocols, and more.

Strengthening the Future of Electrical Trades: Collaboration, Education, and Innovation at IBEW 134 NECA Technical Institute

SMA proudly contributed to this collaboration, discussing advancements in the agrivoltaics market and how colocation of solar technology on farms can improve efficiency and returns while reducing operational costs.

How Agrivoltaics Can Help Solve Land Access Challenges for Emerging and Young Farmers

The 2022 National Young Farmer Survey, a survey conducted by the National Young Farmers Coalition, found that land access is the number one challenge faced by young farmers.

Is Solar Panel Cleaning Safety the Next Frontier in EHS?

While this task is generally classified as “non-electrical” maintenance, a more accurate label might be “quasi-electrical,” given the potential hazards involved.

End-of-Life and Damaged Battery Shipping: Navigating State and Federal Regulations

Regulators are playing catch-up with the technologies and markets which are developing at high speed and carry significant risks as they mature. The requirements are constantly changing, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.

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Floating Solar Panels Could Support US Energy Goals

New Study Shows Federally Controlled Reservoirs Could Host Enough Energy To Power Approximately 100 Million US Homes a Year

Half of energy will come from solar by 2035: ground-breaking climate modeling tool challenges previous energy projections

Birch is challenging decades of inaccurate solar energy forecasting, correcting a flawed equation at the heart of projections: he says the metric of primary energy is only applicable to fossil fuels, as over half of fossil fuel energy is wasted when it is burned.

Schletter supplies Central Europe's largest Agri-PV project

A total of 260,000 PV modules were installed on around 180 hectares of farmland in the municipalities of Wallern and Tadten in the Austrian province of Burgenland. The modules were mounted on the Schletter Tracking System 2V in an east-west orientation.

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GameChange Solar Strengthens U.S. Solar Supply Chain with Six Tracker Tube Factories

Combined factory annual capacity exceeds 35 GW

Sungrow Supports Nordics' Largest PV Rooftop Installation

-The largest PV rooftop plant in the Nordics has been completed with 24.000 panels spanning 100,000 sqm. -The project feeds the DSV's 175,000 sqm logistic center in Landskrona, Sweden, with renewable energy. -The project utilizes 34 units of Sungrow's SG350HX string inverter.

LONGi at 2025 WEF Annual Meeting: Solar Beating All Expectations

They shared the latest developments and future trends of the solar energy industry with numerous political elites and business leaders.

Advancing Offshore Wind Farm Operations with Lidar Technology

Equans' Meteorological Monitoring Module continues to drive advancements in offshore operational safety.

Natural Power delivers technical support for Lavausseau wind project financing

Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider Natural Power has supported Valorem with the delivery of technical advisory services for the financing of Lavausseau wind project in the Vienne (86) department, France.

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