Day: March 1, 2022

Credit: PetersenDean A group of 26 California congress members — more than 60% of the state’s Democratic delegation — issued a letter to Alice Reynolds, Char of the California Public Utilities Commission, urging the CPUC to keep solar growing, affordable and contributing to state and national climate goals. The CPUC could unveil a new decision …

26 California congress members ask CPUC chair for solar-friendly net-metering decision Read More »

California community choice aggregator MCE will provide $715,000 to Pittsburg Unified School District to pay for 1.6 MW of a combination of 2-hour and 4-hour duration lithium batteries for a total of 3 MWh at 10 of the 13 district campuses. The batteries will be paired with 2.3 MW of existing solar. The school district will …

California school district set up with 3-MWh battery resiliency project Read More »

Solar contractors Pivot Energy and Standard Solar have completed a 2-MW solar project in Jefferson County, Colorado. It was the fifth and final project in a series of community solar developments launched by the companies’ partnership in 2019 which aimed to expand community solar access across the state. Credit: Standard Solar Pivot developed the project …

Pivot Energy, Standard Solar partnership results in 8.9 MW of Colorado community solar Read More »

A church installation by Ipsun Solar. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced this week that nonprofits RE-volv, Green The Church and Interfaith Power & Light will receive financial, analytical and facilitation support as they assist BIPOC-led houses of worship around the country to go solar, as part of the third …

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Courtesy landseahomes.com SunPower and Landsea Homes Corporation, a publicly traded residential homebuilder, announced a multi-year exclusive agreement in which SunPower will be the only provider of solar technology to Landsea Homes across the nation. With this new relationship, all homes built by Landsea Homes in California will include a SunPower Equinox home solar system designed …

SunPower signs on to new solar + storage partnership with premium homebuilder Read More »