March 9, 2022 | San Diego's Top Solar Company

Market report estimates 11-GW decrease in near-term solar installations

In 2021, U.S. solar prices increased as much as 18% due to unprecedented supply chain challenges, trade actions and legislative uncertainty, according to the “U.S. Solar Market Insight 2021 Year-in-Review” report. As a result of these issues, a third of all utility-scale solar capacity scheduled for completion in the last quarter of 2021 was delayed …

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300-MW PV array supports nation’s 1st solar-powered steel mill

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McCarthy Building Cos. recently completed construction and commissioning of the 300-MW Bighorn Solar project in Pueblo, Colorado. It is the first of two large-scale solar projects the company’s Renewable Energy & Storage Group is building in the area in conjunction with Lightsource bp, the project owner. Located on 1,800 acres of land on EVRAZ Rocky …

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New York solar plan needs changes to support energy justice, advocates say

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Vote Solar, the New York Energy Democracy Alliance, and Alliance for a Green Economy filed comments with the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) on the state’s Distributed Solar Roadmap that was released in December 2021. The roadmap offers a strategy for expanding the state’s NY-Sun initiative into one of the largest solar programs in the nation, expected …

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DSD Renewables acquires six Northeast rooftop solar projects

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DSD Renewables has acquired three rooftop solar projects in New Jersey and Connecticut from Dynamic Energy, and intends to acquire another three projects in Massachusetts and Virginia later this year. The six projects, all of which are rooftop installations, total approximately 7.5 MWs. “Our partnership with Dynamic Energy enables access to clean, renewable solar energy in …

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Advocates ask New York PSC for more community solar funding

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Credit: Standard Solar Yesterday, Vote Solar, the New York Energy Democracy Alliance and the Alliance for a Green Economy filed comments with the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) on the state’s Distributed Solar Roadmap — a plan for achieving the Hochul Administration’s goal of deploying 10 gigawatts of local solar by 2030. The roadmap …

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Solar trackers vs. wind: An ongoing struggle

Installation / By Staff

In a new whitepaper, FTC solar looks to tackle the damage potential of dynamic and static wind loads on single axis trackers using a novel hardware approach and a zero-degree stow angle. March 9, 2022 While not as immediately captivating in damage potential as lacrosse ball-sized hail or sudden, destructive flooding, the threats that wind …

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In 2021 renewable energy use reached an all-time high, but so did CO2 emissions

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Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 6% in 2021 mostly due to increased coal use, but renewable energy sources and nuclear power provided a higher share of global electricity generation than coal in 2021, according to IEA report. March 9, 2022 As global economies rebounded from the Covid-19 crisis, the increase in coal use …

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SMUD signs its largest solar and storage PPA with D.E. Shaw

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D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments announced a large northern California solar project with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). SMUD signed a power purchase agreement sized at 200MW of solar PV and 400MWh of energy storage. The battery energy storage system is a planned 100MW, four-hour duration battery. The project, to be located in east Sacramento …

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SMUD signs PPA for its largest solar + storage system with DESRI

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D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) have announced the signing of SMUD’s first combined solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) renewable PPA sized at 200 MW AC and 400 MWh. The project is currently the largest combined solar and BESS generation facility announced in northern California under …

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Six CCAs sign on to new California lithium-ion storage project

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Participating CCAs The California Community Power board held a special meeting on February 25 at which members of the Joint Powers Agency to voted to enter into a contract for the 50 MW/400 MWh Goal Line long-duration energy storage project. The lithium-ion battery storage project, developed by Onward Energy, will have eight hours of discharge …

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