Featured in Fork to the future – 09-2021

Both sides for C&I

The commercial and industrial sector has been called the underdog of the U.S. solar market, as it usually plays second fiddle to its larger, more visible residential and utility segment siblings. But C&I’s ultimate multi-gigawatt potential has never been in dispute. Aaron Thurlow, general manager at Longi Solar, makes the case for bifacial technology in the C&I segment.
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Image: Longi Solar

  A 2020 report by Wood Mackenzie has estimated that there is enough unused commercial rooftop space in the United States to accommodate 145 GW of solar. Some 600,000 sites, or about 70% of the total commercial real estate building stock in the U.S., could be solarized. The latest U.S. Solar Market Insight report shows …

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