Talk:Solar shingle

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Initial comments
Good subject for current and future roofing. Nice discussion for a new product on the market. I would like to see other references. Are there magazines or articles published in hard copy? UrbanRez 05:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Photo
Can someone import this image from http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/photovoltaics.html ? There is another one somewhere on the site showing a carpenter using a hammer, but carpenters use nail guns more than hammers, like in the above photo. 199.125.109.124 (talk) 04:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Elk Premium Building Products
It might be useful to include info in the history section related to the effort by ATS, Spheral Solar Power and Elk Premium Building Products To Develop New Generation Photovaltaic Roofing Products as described in an article here, as this effort precedes the effort by Dow by many years. Also it might be useful to mention the patent 7587864 by Elk for what appears to be an even more advanced PV roof shingle link. --Rbarline (talk) 21:48, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Removed ELs
I'm not disagreeing with this removal (on 16 December), but I want to post the removed links here because at least two seem useful in improving the article:


 * United Solar Ovonic
 * Frequently Asked Questions on solar shingles
 * WSJ article
 * NYT article
 * The UK's Top Roof Integrated Solar Resource

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:46, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved to Solar shingle, per WP:SINGULAR Mike Cline (talk) 14:22, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Solar shingles → Solar shingle – Titles should be singular except in rare cases. For example, Roof shingle, Asphalt shingle, Wood shingle, Shake (shingle), and article titles for many other repeating architectural elements(e.g. Clapboard, Tile) are singular in compliance with the MOS. Joja lozzo  05:33, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Survey

 * Support. As I understand it, "solar shingles" is a particularly painful form of herpes zoster. Kauffner (talk) 08:20, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Solar shingles is a power system. It makes no sense to say one solar shingle. You can not even put up one solar shingle, as they are in a strip. Apteva (talk) 16:48, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support – The singular form is used in places in the article and its sources, and makes perfect sense, so we should use it. It's unclear why Apteva claims that "It makes no sense to say one solar shingle". Dicklyon (talk) 03:39, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * It should be perfectly clear. If you look at a photo of the strips of solar shingles you can see that each one has maybe 7 or more shingle sections. You can not cut these apart like you can an asphalt shingle. You have to use them as a whole strip of shingles. Some of them even come in a roll, but are not terribly long. It just does not make any sense to title the article Solar shingle, and start it out, Solar shingles, also called photovoltaic shingles, are solar cells designed to look like conventional asphalt shingles. It is impossible to make the title bold. Apteva (talk) 07:21, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Any additional comments:


 * I do not think this article is about a "power system" any more than Solar panel is about a power system. Joja  lozzo  05:50, 25 February 2013 (UTC)


 * It's not true that all solar shingles come in strips. Some solar shingles use a true single shingle format (http://assets.inhabitat.com/images/bipvsunslate_copy.jpg).  Joja  lozzo  05:50, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That is the exception and is more like a solar slate than a shingle. Apteva (talk) 23:20, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * No, it is not an exception. The Dow Powerhouse shingles are 10" high and 22" wide. These are closer to a shingle than the long strips that make no attempt to look like shingles and are more like very wide tiles than shingles. Is it your argument that because the long strips are not much like shingles, we must use the plural "shingles" instead of the singular "shingle"? This request seems like a no-brainer, simply complying with the MOS for titles. Joja  lozzo  06:09, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * A search of google books shows that solar shingles is used four times as often as solar shingle. An example shows that shingles would have been a better choice: "The solar shingle is installed directly". One shingle? Who installs only one? Apteva (talk) 19:37, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


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Dow no longer in the Solar Shingle business
POWERHOUSE™ Shingles No Longer Available Dow announced on June 28, 2016, that it will cease manufacturing POWERHOUSE™ modules. As part of the transition to cease POWERHOUSE™ operations, we will no longer be providing design services for new projects.

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