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Day: December 1, 2022

CPUC Creates New Framework To Advance California’s Transition Away From Natural Gas

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today adopted a new framework to comprehensively review utility natural gas infrastructure investments in order to help the state transition away from natural gas-fueled technologies and avoid stranded assets in the gas system. Today’s decision requires utilities to seek CPUC approval of natural gas infrastructure projects of $75 million …

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CPUC Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement of PG&E Results in Vegetation Management Improvements

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today determined that its enhanced oversight and enforcement of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) 2020 vegetation management practices has resulted in the utility completing required corrective actions. In April 2021, the CPUC ordered PG&E to take corrective actions and prioritize the clearing of vegetation along its highest-risk power …

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Rallies underway in 10 California cities to combat anti-rooftop solar policy

In opposition to a 75% cut of utility payments for excess rooftop solar customer production, California residents, environmental activists, and renewable energy workers will hold rallies across the state on Thursday, December 1, calling on the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and Gov. Gavin Newsom to keep rooftop solar growing and affordable. December 1, 2022 …

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Namaste Solar campaign provides community solar subscriptions for 400 families

Solar energy will help power the homes of 400 Colorado families this coming year that are unable to keep up with utility payments because of the $100,000 raised by the Keep the Lights on Colorado community giving campaign. Keep the Lights on Colorado, a community fundraising campaign, raised enough money to power the homes of …

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Inside the IRA: How does prevailing wage affect my solar tax credit?

The U.S. Department of Treasury has begun to release guidance on the Prevailing Wage & Apprenticeship language in the Inflation Reduction Act, which goes into effect January 23, 2023. December 1, 2022 The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) added a requirement that all projects larger than one megawatt alternating current (1 MWac) must pay its workers …

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Home Depot buys 100 MW of solar energy from National Grid Renewables

The Home Depot logo The Home Depot announced that 100 MW of solar energy purchased from National Grid Renewables at its solar and storage project in Denton County, Texas, that will generate the approximate equivalent of nearly eight percent of The Home Depot’s total electricity usage. The solar farm is National Grid Renewables’ largest solar energy …

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Solar and storage prices soared as a result of market disruptions, NREL reports

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report every year since 2010 on photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage costs. The most recent report, U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks, With Minimum Sustainable Price Analysis: Q1 2022 covers installed costs for PV and storage systems as of the first quarter (Q1) of 2022, …

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Top 25 corporate solar energy buyers for 2022 led by Meta, Amazon, Apple

Arlington II, a Meta solar project in Georgia. Led by tech and retail giants, American companies are installing record-levels of solar to power their operations and now account for 14% of all installed solar capacity in the United States, according to the Solar Means Business 2022 report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association …

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December solar policy snapshots

Puerto Rican groups want Congress to invest in distributed solar + storage for the island to protect from an unreliable grid. Activists protest Idaho Power’s value of solar studyBoise, Idaho Solar advocates asked the Idaho Public Utilities Commission to reject or heavily review Idaho Power’s value of solar study that will guide future net-metering rate …

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