Tag archive: Sustainability

Retro-Commissioning

Retro-commissioning is the first stage in the building upgrade process. The staged approach accounts for the interactions among all the energy flows in a building and produces a systematic method for planning upgrades that increases energy savings. When the staged approach is adopted and performed sequentially, each stage includes changes…

Renewable Energy

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Types of Solar Panels

Monocrystalline Silicon Cells: Made using cells saw-cut from a single cylindrical crystal of silicon, this is the most efficient of the photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The principle advantage of monocrystalline cells are their high efficiencies, typically around 15%, although the manufacturing process required to produce monocrystalline silicon is complicated, resulting in…