November 8, 2023 | San Diego's Top Solar Company

Agilitas constructs largest NWS energy storage system for Con Edison in NYC

Agilitas Energy has completed construction of the largest standalone, non-wires solution (NWS) energy storage system (ESS) in Con Edison’s New York City and Westchester County service area. The grid-scale project will help the utility company meet peak loads for customers with 4.8 MW and 23.7 MWh of capacity. Located in the Long Island City neighborhood …

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BLM seeks public comment for 5.3 GW of solar projects in Nevada

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Proposed utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects would add enough capacity to power approximately 4 million households. November 8, 2023 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comment on a proposal as it evaluates the impacts of seven large-scale solar-plus-storage projects called Esmeralda 7. The seven solar installations are to be located near Tonopah in central …

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PVEL will pay closer attention to hail stress and backsheet durability in future PV module tests

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Solar testing group PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) today announced upgrades to its suite of extended reliability and performance tests, the Product Qualification Program (PQP). PVEL established the PQP in 2012 to provide empirical data for PV module benchmarking and project-level energy yield and financial models, and to help recognize top performing PV modules. Hail strikes …

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Arevon leverages IRA tax credits to build utility-scale solar peaker project in California

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Arevon Energy Inc. is using $529 million package to build the Vikings solar-plus-storage project in Southern California. The project is one of the first utility-scale solar peaker plants in the United States. The company’s innovative financing approach combines the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credit transferability provisions with traditional debt financing. Arevon has closed financing, securing …

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New database maps large-scale solar projects across the country

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) released the largest and most comprehensive database to date on large-scale solar energy projects in the United States. The U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB) includes the location, size and other characteristics of large-scale solar projects. This new …

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Solar-plus-storage outperforms diesel in military survivability analysis

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The NREL evaluation of solar plus Antorra Energy storage system meets the U.S. Military’s exacting standards, revealing that these systems significantly outperform emergency diesel generators in survivability probabilities. November 8, 2023 Analysis by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrated that solar energy systems, when paired with fourteen-day long duration energy …

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Electriq Power expands into New England with solar-plus-battery storage system program

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The program will help homeowners in Derby, Connecticut access solar-plus-battery solutions regardless of their socioeconomic status. November 8, 2023 Electriq Power Holdings, a provider of energy storage and management solutions, has launched a program in the city of Derby, Connecticut to help homeowners access solar-plus-battery solutions regardless of their socioeconomic status. The program, dubbed PoweredUp …

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Arevon uses IRA tax credit transferability provision to finance solar peaker plant

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Arevon Energy has announced it has closed financing on the Vikings solar + storage project with a combination of debt financing and tax credit transfer. Arevon secured a commitment with J.P. Morgan to purchase $191 million of investment tax credits and production tax credits, among the nation’s first transactions announced to date that leverage the Inflation …

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Sunrise brief: Maine residents vote against creating new utility

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Her Retirement Home Said ‘No’ to Solar Panels. She Got It to Buy 1,344.

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Susan Auslander, at 89, is an energetic, convent-educated, white-haired Prius driver, and when her retirement community told her it was not feasible to convert to solar power, Ms. Auslander decided to push back. That push turned into a a five-year campaign. “It became my hobby — not my obsession,” she said, as people do sometimes …

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