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Day: March 14, 2022

CPUC To Hold Remote Public Forum on Volcano Telephone’s Rate Request

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will hold a remote public forum to provide an opportunity for customers of Volcano Telephone Company to offer their perspective and input to the CPUC about the company’s rate increase request, as follows: WHEN: April 13, 2022, 6 p.m. WHERE: Remote access via webcast or phone for the public …

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CPUC To Hold Remote Public Forum on Sierra Telephone’s Rate Request

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will hold a remote public forum to provide an opportunity for customers of Sierra Telephone Company to offer their perspective and input to the CPUC about the company’s rate increase request, as follows: WHEN: April 11, 2022, 6 p.m. WHERE: Remote access via webcast or phone for the public …

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CPUC To Hold Remote Public Forum on Siskiyou Telephone’s Rate Request

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will hold a remote public forum to provide an opportunity for customers of Siskiyou Telephone Company to offer their perspective and input to the CPUC about the company’s rate increase request, as follows: WHEN: April 12, 2022, 6 p.m. WHERE: Remote access via webcast or phone for the public …

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Construction complete for Colorado steel operation’s 300MW solar project

The Bighorn Solar Project has been completed by McCarthy Building in partnership with project owner Lightsource bp. March 14, 2022 Lightsource bp, Xcel Energy, and Evraz North America dedicated the 300MW Bighorn Solar project to partially power Evraz’s Pueblo, Colorado, steelmaking operations. McCarthy Construction announced it completed building the project.  The project is primarily located on 1,800 …

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Flathead Electric Cooperative Montana community solar site

Community Solar: Interconnection bottlenecks and other barriers to growth

Achieving the US government’s ambitious climate goals will take an all-hands-on-deck approach. Several studies have looked at how much solar must be installed to meet the goal of 80% clean electricity by 2030, and the consensus is that at least 103GW of distributed solar and 137GW of distributed storage must be deployed every year in …

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Kentucky utility adds more solar as Solar Shares Program gains customers

LG&E and KU’s Solar Share facility in Simpsonville, Kentucky is more than halfway subscribed and the fifth section is under development by Solar Alliance Energy. The new section will add more than 1,100 solar panels and will produce an additional 500-kilowatts of energy. The utilities will construct the remaining three sections planned for the site …

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McCarthy Building Companies completes 300 MW Bighorn Solar project in Pueblo, Colo.

McCarthy Building Companies has completed the construction and commissioning of the 300 MW Bighorn Solar project in Pueblo, Colo. It is the first of two large-scale solar projects being built in the area by the company’s Renewable Energy & Storage Group in conjunction with Lightsource bp, the project owner.    On 1,800 acres of land on …

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Humans have installed 1 terawatt of solar capacity, generated over 1 petawatt of solar electricity in 2021

The homo sapien species has installed its first terawatt of hardware on Earth to generate electricity directly from its local star. March 14, 2022 Milestones may be arbitrary, but the morale boost they provide is not. Humans have very recently installed enough solar panels to generate one terawatt of electricity directly from the sun. It’s …

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Solar companies submit strategy comments on Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

In late December 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which bans all imports from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China unless suppliers can prove the products were not made with forced labor. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on behalf of the …

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