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  • 1.  Salvaging solar panels, plus state of solar in 2026 - Solar Noon Tuesday

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    Contributor
    Posted 20 days ago

    This week we take a look at a new report from SEIA giving us a snapshot of the solar industry for the first part of 2026.

    Each Tuesday at noon (Eastern) solarPVtraining.com hosts a Zoom sessions for students (or anyone, really) interested in solar.  Generally discussion focuses on technical questions, problems or troubleshooting - or just what is happening in solar that week.



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    Jay Warmke
    Owner
    Solar PV Training LLC
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  • 2.  RE: Salvaging solar panels, plus state of solar in 2026 - Solar Noon Tuesday

    Chapter Leader
    Posted 19 days ago

    Sorry I missed this. With respect to reuse of the modules, that old array's inverters are likely dead. As a nonprofit reuse guy, I would still recommend the municipal building owner pursue a new system given the 20-year age of the equipment. With regards to doubling up two modules to a single microinverter, we have done this on some low-income residential rooftop arrays and these work fine.

    -Rich



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    Rich Stromberg
    ESS Prog Dir / PhD Student
    Equitable Solar Solutions / Univ of Alaska Fairbanks
    Chair, PV Technical Division at ASES
    Colorado
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