October 19, 2022 | San Diego's Top Solar Company

CPUC Accepting Grant Applications To Help Bridge the Educational Digital Divide

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing commitment to increase broadband adoption statewide, is accepting applications for its Digital Divide Grant Program, which will provide four grants of up to $250,000 each. Eligible projects will serve a beneficiary school located in an urban or rural low-income small school district. Beneficiary schools must have …

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Solar panel companies demand refund on Trump’s bifacial module tariffs

Industry / By Staff

The tail-end of the Trump-era Sec. 201 tariffs on imported solar panels was chaotic for everyone. Originally enacted in 2018, 30% tariffs were placed on crystalline silicon cells and modules being imported into the United States. Imported bifacial panels were excluded from the tariffs in June 2019 due to there being no significant domestic manufacturing …

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Renewable PPA price relief from the Inflation Reduction Act may take time

Markets / By Staff

LevelTen Energy’s Q3 report shows U.S. solar and wind offer prices rose 9.6% in-quarter, and current market forces may continue this trend for some time. October 19, 2022 Energy costs are on the rise, and this trend applies to renewable energy as well. In its Q3 Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) Price Index Report, LevelTen Energy …

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SOLV Energy partners with Swap Robotics to tackle thick vegetation on solar sites

Industry / By Staff

SOLV Energy announced during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 Conference in San Francisco that it has invested in Swap Robotics. Swap Robotics is an autonomous robotics company that provides 100% electric vegetation management services for utility-scale solar PV facilities. Swap Robotics’ autonomous vegetation management solution is one of the first products to be specifically designed and …

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Standard Solar acquires Rhode Island community solar portfolio from Trina Solar

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Standard Solar is expanding its community solar portfolio in Rhode Island with the acquisition of a combined 6.2 MW of projects. The two ground-mount community solar projects – West Main 1 and West Main 2 – developed by Trina ISBU, a business unit of Trina Solar, are located in Portsmouth. All the power generated will …

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Proposed regional clean hydrogen hubs to compete for $7 billion in DOE funding

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Several teams plan to propose regional hubs in which large-scale clean hydrogen production would be paired with industrial and other end-uses for hydrogen. DOE gave examples of technologies that could meet its draft standard for “clean” hydrogen. October 19, 2022 Teams across the United States plan to compete for $7 billion in U.S Department of …

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Entergy chooses GridUnity software to streamline distributed energy interconnection process

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GridUnity announced that Entergy Services has selected the company’s cloud-based Interconnection Lifecycle Management software product to streamline the interconnection process for distributed energy resources. Entergy delivers electricity to approximately 3 million customers through five operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. GridUnity’s platform was selected to simplify and accelerate the process of adding distributed …

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11-site New York solar portfolio designed by Castillo Engineering, Solar Generation

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A 75 MW portfolio of 11 community solar projects in New York is coming online via engineering, construction and procurement (EPC) firms Solar Generation and Castillo Engineering (electrical design and engineering). The majority of the projects are currently under construction and will be completed throughout the remainder of 2022 and 2023. “Solar Generation is a …

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Bus Talk podcast to demystify electric school buses

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Highland Electric Fleets launches a seven-episode podcast to help school districts and towns gain a better understanding of EV school buses. October 19, 2022 ‘Bus Talk’, inspired by Click & Clack’s Car Talk, intends to be entertaining, informative and educational. The series was launched by Highland Electric Fleets, a provider of school bus fleet electrification-as-a-service …

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Salient Energy zinc-ion battery completes UL 9540A fire safety tests

Industry / By Staff

Zinc-ion battery maker Salient Energy announced that it has completed thermal runaway testing and is one step closer to getting UL listing for its stationary energy storage system. UL 9540A tests battery safety by first determining whether the energy storage system uses batteries that introduce a risk of fire or explosion. If so, the test …

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