One of the most concrete and tangible changes brought about by widespread adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) and community solar programs is the significant reduction in monthly energy bills for ratepayers. When energy bills can take up to 20% of the monthly income for a family at or below 80% of their area’s median …
Prioritizing energy equity through utility regulation Read More »
Sometime next summer, there’s a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California’s power grid will again be stretched to its limits. As the sun sets, solar panels will start generating less electricity even as temperatures remain high. Power plants that burn natural gas will fire up as quickly as possible, …
California is scrambling to avoid blackouts. Your refrigerator could help Read More »
Solar company iSun announced it reached an agreement to make a minority interest equity investment in Encore Renewable Energy, a Vermont-based clean energy developer with a history of reclaiming real estate landfills, brownfields, rooftops and carports for community-scale solar PV and large-scale energy storage systems. The deal provides the two companies opportunities in collaboration across …
Also on the rise: What PV installers need to know about fire safety. Experts discuss pricing, supply and demand in PV value chain. How the battery supply chain can bolster EV supply chain. Community solar launched by Lafayette Square and Invenergy. 8minute energy funding boost will grow its already large portfolio. Burns & McDonnell complete …
Sunrise brief: Why Build Back Better’s solar policies are so important Read More »
This is the Jan. 7, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. With less than two weeks until Joe Biden takes office — and with Democrats taking control of the Senate — the …
How rooftop solar could save Americans $473 billion Read More »
The deal includes long-term O&M agreements for the solar, storage, and wind assets. November 30, 2021 A unit of NextEra Energy Resources agreed to sell a 50% non-controlling interest in a 2,520 MW portfolio of long-term contracted renewables assets to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board for $849 million. The remaining 50% interest will be sold …
NextEra Energy sells a stake in a renewable energy portfolio for $849 million Read More »
US Senator Jacky Rosen led the group in writing a letter today to President Biden, asking him not to extend Section 201 tariffs on imported solar panels and cells. January 20, 2022 U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) led a bipartisan group of Senators in a letter to President Joe Biden urging him not to extend …
Bipartisan group of eight US Senators urge President Biden not to extend solar tariffs Read More »
When the Texas power grid buckled and cut off power to millions of households during a severe winter freeze last month, Bernadette Del Chiaro saw some troubling similarities to what had played out in California six months before. Del Chiaro, who leads a solar energy advocacy group in Sacramento, felt Texas was going through “the …
Wells Fargo Renewable Energy & Environmental Finance closed tax equity financing for the Arroyo Solar and Storage project with D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments. Once operational, Arroyo – a 300 MWAC solar and 150 MWAC/600 MWh battery energy storage system facility developed in northwestern New Mexico – will be one of the largest solar and …
Wells Fargo provides tax equity financing for solar+storage project Read More »
Under the new rules, all public utility customers are eligible for a $3,000.00 upfront cash rebate for any 3 kW-6 kW that is used, at least in part, for self-supply, while all customers at or below 250% of the federal poverty line can receive a 2 cent/kWh adder to their net metering rate. January 20, …
Mississippi boosts low-income incentives in updated net metering rules Read More »
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