PostedFebruary 23, 2017

A 80MW solar farm in North Carolina needed controls and insight on a site spanning 800 acres. The primary concern was ensuring communications reliability over long distances, and creating a redundant network to ensure continued reporting...without breaking the bank.

PostedFebruary 3, 2017

Municipalities looking for a renewable energy source can simply look to their local landfill. First, we won’t be running out of trash anytime soon. Second, the organic waste in landfills can generate a tremendous amount of methane gas. And that gas must be dealt with somehow. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, methane gas has a global warming potential 25 times greater than carbon dioxide.

Converting this gas to energy has both economic and environmental benefits. This has fueled a growing trend of cooperation and partnership between landfill operators and energy utilities.

PostedFebruary 7, 2017

Customized solar integration: Affinity Energy integrates Duke Energy's corporate SCADA with preexisting proprietary monitoring hardware at nine sites.