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Sep 9, 202210 min read

PV Cable Sizing, Part Two: How to Safely Reduce PV Cable Sizes While Maximizing Project Returns

By Joe Jancauskas, Senior Electrical Engineer at Castillo Engineering While moderately oversizing your solar panel cables can ensure fire...

Jul 20, 20224 min read

Top 5 Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Design Essentials

With the price of lithium battery cell prices having fallen by 97% over the past three decades, and standalone utility-scale storage...

Jun 30, 20226 min read

PV Cable Sizing, Part One: Inverter Output Conductor Sizing

By Joe Jancauskas, Senior Electrical Engineer at Castillo Engineering Second to only PV module ratings, nothing changes faster than...

May 18, 20223 min read

2 Ways Solar-Plus-Storage System Design Flexibility Can Reduce Project Time & Costs

The solar industry is often referred to as the “solar coaster” due to its seemingly constant changes as permitting requirements...

Apr 19, 20226 min read

Solar Project Optimization: It Never Stops & Why That’s a Good Thing

How You Can Reduce Costs & Improve Performance at Any Stage of a Solar Project While “project optimization” and “value engineering” are...

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