The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities heard testimonies today on the benefits of community solar, during the committee’s review of Assembly Bill 258. The bill, sponsored by Republican State Rep. Scott Krug, would legalize community solar projects and allow electric customers to subscribe and receive credit on their utility bills for their share of the …
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Battery maker EnerSys has selected Greenville, South Carolina, to develop a 4-GWh lithium-ion cell factory. An off-grid installation in Wyoming using EnerSys components. EnerSys has applied for an incentive package through South Carolina and Greenville County valued at approximately $200 million, which includes a combination of short-term and long-term incentives. The company intends to use …
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California Assemblymember Damon Connolly (D-San Rafael) has introduced new legislation to reduce fees and taxes on residential solar projects and restore incentives to Californians that were recently diminished by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)’s NEM 3.0 decision. NEM 3.0 cut the incentives that utilities were required to pay solar homeowners when pushing surplus power …
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Greenbacker Capital Management has placed its 240 MWdc / 200 MWac utility-scale Appaloosa Solar 1 project into commercial operations in Iron County, Utah. With more than twice the power generation capacity of its sister project — Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company’s 104 MWdc / 80 MWac Graphite Solar in Carbon County, Utah — Appaloosa is now the …
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The report looks at how installation costs and energy savings prices change in relation to climate, heating source and type of home and suggests that policymakers further reduce the costs of installing heat pumps so that more U.S. households can benefit from them. February 14, 2024 Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Buildings …
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While distributed solar and storage are advancing quickly in Puerto Rico, utility-scale solar and storage procurements ordered by Puerto Rico regulators in 2020 have made little progress. February 14, 2024 Puerto Rico’s 1.6 GWh of residential-sited batteries represents the “largest untapped virtual power plant” in the world, said Javier Rúa-Jovet, chief policy officer at the Solar …
Puerto Rico distributed solar climbs to 680 MW, residential storage to 1.6 GWh Read More »
Contract pharmaceutical manufacturer CordenPharma announced it will purchase energy generated by two Pivot Energy solar project in Colorado to offset 51% of its local electricity consumption. Pivot will develop the two separate solar arrays totaling 6.7 MW. The projects will be located in Weld and Garfield Counties and are estimated to be fully constructed and interconnected to Xcel Energy’s …
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The largest and longest running of the RE+ regional conferences, this year it’s bigger than ever, having outgrown its previous space and now filling a hall in the Boston Convention Center. February 14, 2024 Despite dire warnings of a foot of snow, 3,500 people arrived at the Boston Convention Center Tuesday morning for the annual …
Jacques Beech saw his electric bill fall to $100 a month after installing solar panels on his Minneapolis home. Photo by Brad Stauffer/Energy News Network. By Frank Jossi, via Energy News Network One installation at a time, a solar nonprofit that matches socially conscious investors’ cash with lower-income homeowners is spreading the benefits of solar …
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While most large-format modules are lab tested for certification, the lab is not the real-world. The field loading applied to a solar module depends on the structure on which it is mounted and the terrain of the project. February 14, 2024 At the RE+ 2023 conference in Las Vegas, vendors from across the globe displayed …
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