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Day: December 15, 2022

CPUC Acts To Advance Understanding of Hydrogen’s Role As Decarbonization Strategy

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today adopted two decisions to assess the feasibility and safety implications of utilizing clean renewable hydrogen as a decarbonization strategy for the natural gas system and hard-to-electrify industries. The CPUC allowed Southern California Gas Company to proceed with an initial phase of feasibility studies for the Angeles Link Project, …

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CPUC Approves Funding for Public Housing Broadband Projects

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing commitment to help the state bridge the digital divide, today announced it has awarded approximately $1.398 million in California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) Broadband Public Housing Account grants to fund 19 public housing broadband projects from three applicants that will serve residents of 800 units. The …

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CPUC Approves Environmental Review for Project To Bring Broadband to Rural California To Serve Tribes and Others

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing commitment to help the state bridge the digital divide, today approved the environmental review and start of construction for a 300-mile fiber optic project in Northern California that includes a range of public benefits for anchor institutions and communities with insufficient broadband, and will provide fiber …

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CPUC Modernizes Solar Tariff To Support Reliability and Decarbonization

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today issued a decision that modernizes the Net Energy Metering (NEM) solar tariff to promote grid reliability, incentivizes solar and battery storage, and controls electricity costs for all Californians. The decision has no impact on existing rooftop solar customers, maintaining their current compensation rates. “We are launching the solar …

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Deep retrofits and building emission laws offer new opportunities for solar in NYC

An ambitious New York City law on building emissions and an innovative NYSERDA program for deep retrofits offer new opportunities for solar on the pathway to deep decarbonization in the Big Apple. December 15, 2022 It’s no secret, buildings are one of the largest sources of emissions. The IEA found that in 2021 the operation …

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Canadian Solar to start mass production of 690-W TOPCon modules

Canadian Solar will begin mass production of its 690-W TOPCon solar panels in the first quarter of 2023. These panels have a cell conversion efficiency of around 25.0%, which is 1.5% higher than the average cell efficiency of the mainstream products in the market. TOPBiHiKu7 Canadian Solar will provide a diversified portfolio of TOPCon products to …

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New collaboration will restore prairie land under Sacramento County solar project

Credit: Lightsource bp EPRI and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) launched a new collaborative project that aims to restore prairie land and pollinator habitat under solar arrays and along other portions of 20 acres of land at SMUD’s Rancho Seco site in Sacramento County, California. The restorative energy project is at the site of …

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Speculation on lawsuit against Biden’s two year tariff pause

ROTH Capital suggests that Auxin might be readying a set of lawsuits seeking to overturn Biden’s two year suspension of tariffs against circumventing solar companies. December 15, 2022 ROTH Capital believes that Auxin Solar – the company that filed the 2022 anti-circumvention lawsuit – is readying a new series of lawsuits. The lawsuits are aimed …

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Grid-scale, residential energy storage installations set new quarterly records

The utility-scale energy storage market installed 4,733 MWh in Q3 2022, surpassing the previous quarterly high of 4,590 MWh set in Q1 2021. This information is in the latest “U.S. Energy Storage Monitor” report from ACP and Wood Mackenzie. Grid-scale storage deployments in Q3 mainly came from California and Texas, which accounted for 96% of …

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