Improving Solar Archives - Cinnamon Energy Systems

Streamlining Solar Design with Aurora Solar

Mar 14, 2022 | Improving Solar, Solar Industry, Solar Technology

The Energy Show · Streamlining Solar Design and Installation with Aurora Your friendly local solar contractor has to contend with two basic types of costs: hardware costs (solar panels, inverters, racking, batteries, etc.) and non-hardware costs, referred to as...

SolarEdge-Perspective for a Distributed Grid

Jan 7, 2020 | Energy Technology, Improving Solar, Solar Technology

People talk about solar panels and batteries a lot (at least the people I talk to). The reasons are that solar panels are conspicuous on rooftops — and batteries are what keep the lights on during increasingly frequent blackouts. But the real brains of a solar and...

Upgrading Your Solar System

Aug 7, 2018 | Improving Solar, Solar Power System Maintenance

Over a million buildings in the U.S. have rooftop solar. These systems are extremely reliable: solar panels are guaranteed for 25 years, and inverters are guaranteed for 10-25 years. Our experience as a contractor since 2001 bears out the terrific reliability record...

Planning for an All Electric Future

Jul 5, 2018 | Economics, Energy Technology, Improving Solar, Whole House Electrification

There is no doubt in my mind that the “All Electric future” is inevitable. The only question is how fast…20 or 50 or 75 years? Electric generation and storage technology is getting cheaper, while at the same time the problems with fossils fuels keep getting worse....

Inovateus Solar with T. J. Kanczuzewski

Nov 21, 2017 | Improving Solar, Solar Industry, Solar Installers

The “climate” for solar is most favorable when there are high electric rates and incentives. For these reasons the PV industry grew fastest on the west and east coasts. Now that prices have come down and incentives have extended throughout the country, solar is taking...

Designing a Reliable Electric Grid

Sep 11, 2017 | Energy Politics, Improving Solar, Utility Companies

Over the past few months we’ve experienced a solar eclipse, several devastating hurricanes, another under-construction nuclear plant shutdown, and a backwards-looking Department of Energy Grid Reliability study. The performance of our electric grid during the eclipse...