October 4, 2022 | San Diego's Top Solar Company

Multi-day iron-air battery startup nets $450 million investment

Boston, Massachusetts startup Form Energy announced the Series E financing round. October 4, 2022 Solar and wind power have intermittency in their productive hours, as multi-day weather events can impact output. Therefore, multi-day storage that is cost effective is an important feature in grid reliability. Boston startup Form Energy developed technology to address this need, …

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HelioVolta wins American-Made Solar Prize for software innovation

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SolarGrade software is a fieldwork platform by HelioVolta that includes pre-made workflows and pre-written issue descriptions that help reduce time on site. October 4, 2022 SolarGrade, developed by HelioVolta, is a cloud-based platform that standardizes and automates solar and storage fieldwork with and desktop applications. The software is akin to having an expert at the …

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50 states of solar incentives: South Carolina

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South Carolina has over 2 GW of solar installed, much of it coming online in the last five years, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. October 4, 2022 South Carolina’s solar industry was essentially born six years ago in 2016, when a boom in both residential and utility-scale solar occurred in the state. Before …

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Greenskies completes 2.4-MW rooftop solar project on cold storage warehouses

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Greenskies Clean Focus, a commercial renewable energy development company, and Vanguard Energy Partners, a national solar construction firm, completed 2.4 MW of rooftop solar for FreezPak Logistics, a third-party food logistics company. The recently energized solar energy systems will provide renewable solar electricity to Freezpak cold storage facilities in Carteret (985 kW) and Elizabeth (1,414 …

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Oregon State University breaks ground on 326-kW agrivoltaic research project

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Oregon State University has started construction on a $1.5 million research project to optimize dual-use, co-developed land hosting solar photovoltaic arrays and agriculture. Credit: Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences The five-acre Solar Harvest project is located at Oregon State’s North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora, Oregon, 20 miles south of Portland. …

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CPUC expected to wait until after election to issue NEM 3.0 decision

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Fearing voter backlash, California regulators will hold off issuing their proposed decision on a utility proposal to stifle the state’s rooftop solar program until after the November election, according to a Oct. 3 email bulletin from the San Diego-based nonprofit Solar Rights Alliance, citing credible sources. “Californians deserve to know now what regulators are proposing …

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Lightsource bp developing 250-MW solar project for Entergy Arkansas

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The Arkansas Public Service Commission has approved the Entergy Arkansas Driver Solar Project, a new 250-MWAC/312 MWDC renewable energy facility developed by Lightsource bp, which will be located on approximately 2,100 acres near Osceola, Arkansas in Mississippi County. Driver Solar will be the utility’s largest solar facility, capable of generating enough energy to power more …

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Upcoming Entergy Arkansas, Lightsource bp solar project to help produce ‘sustainable steel’

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The Arkansas Public Service Commission has approved the Entergy Arkansas Driver Solar Project, a new 250-megawatt AC (or 312 MW DC) renewable energy facility developed by Lightsource bp, which will be located on approximately 2,100 acres near Osceola in Mississippi County. Driver Solar will be the utility’s largest solar facility and the largest solar facility …

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Generac to bring EODev hydrogen fuel cell power generators to North America

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The generator uses a fuel cell and a lithium iron phosphate battery, so it is silent and emits only warm water and filtered air. October 4, 2022 Generac Power Systems and EODev signed a formal distribution agreement to bring EODev’s large-scale, zero emissions hydrogen fuel cell power generator to the North American market. Generac is …

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SolarEdge Home Battery joins Rocky Mountain Power VPP program

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SolarEdge Technologies and grid operator Rocky Mountain Power announced the qualification of the SolarEdge Home Battery to join Rocky Mountain Power’s award-winning Wattsmart Battery program. This marks an important next step in Rocky Mountain Power’s efforts to leverage customer-generated solar power along with battery technology in the homes of over 60,000 existing rooftop solar customers …

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