Construction has started on the 120-MW Jackpot Solar project in Twin Falls County, Idaho. This is Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions‘ first utility-scale solar project in Idaho, and once completed it is expected to be the largest in the state. Jackpot Solar is expected to achieve commercial operation by the end of 2022 and will provide …
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The University at Albany unveiled the largest rooftop solar array in the State University of New York system this week. The 1.9 MWdc solar project, constructed under NYPA oversight, covers several rooftops on the campus. “Across the system, SUNY is getting greener,” says SUNY Interim Chancellor Deborah F. Stanley. “Our campuses are dedicating resources and …
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Courtesy Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece Fallingwater is now powered by solar energy. The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which owns the historic property, partnered with Ecogy Energy and Pennsylvania-based solar installer Groundhog Solar to construct a 540-panel ground-mount solar installation using bifacial panels on a meadow adjacent to the Fallingwater home. The array …
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Green Hydrogen International (GHI) and Hydrogen Optimized signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the proposed development of manufacturing facility that will supply GHI’s Hydrogen City project. April 28, 2022 The Hydrogen City project is planned to be a 60 GW green hydrogen production, salt cavern storage, and transportation hub, expected to produce over 2.5 billion …
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C2 Energy Capital Advocates for the environment, solar and wind energy, utility ratepayers, and environmental justice cheered the passage of AB 2316 by California’s State Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy. The bill would establish a new state program to expand access to renewable energy. It would require at least 51% of the power generated …
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On April 27, Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed House Bill 741, which would have undercut the state’s growing rooftop solar market by phasing down net metering and allowing utilities to charge potentially unlimited fees on thousands of solar customers in the state. Solar advocates pushed back against the bill from the start, organizing protests at the …
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Also on the rise: Missouri town declares solar farm a nuisance. PG&E seeks 176 MW of front-of-the-meter local solar. Group using NREL’s free ReEDs model validates 100% renewables by 2035 for 24 states. Caesars bets on solar, breaks ground on three projects in Atlantic City. MIT, NREL researchers develop 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cell for grid-scale thermal …
To the editor: The utility companies claim that rooftop solar is unfair because it supposedly puts the financial burden of net energy metering onto the poor. Since when have the utilities cared about the poor or climate justice? Only since rooftop solar threatened their dividend stream to shareholders. To those who claim that rooftop solar …
When the California Public Utilities Commission proposed scaling back subsidies for rooftop solar in December, it cracked open a hornet’s nest of residential solar sellers, owners and advocates. Installation companies argued it would tank their profits and harm their workers. Solar homeowners and those who want to go solar said it would rob them of …
Op-Ed: Sorry, rooftop solar supporters, California incentives really do punish the poor Read More »
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