January 8, 2025 | San Diego's Top Solar Company

DOE loans $1.8 billion to Arizona utility for solar, storage, transmission

The Department of Energy Loans Programs Office has approved a loan to Arizona Public Service (APS) to construct new electricity generation, storage and transmission assets. January 8, 2025 The U.S. Department of Energy Loans Programs Office (LPO) made a conditional commitment for loan guarantees of up to $1.81 billion for Arizona Public Service (APS). APS …

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Washington state economic impact from community solar could reach $1.7 billion over next decade

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Analysis from the Washington Urban Infrastructure Lab finds that a community solar program similar to New York or Minnesota could create thousands of jobs and over a billion dollars in economic impact. January 8, 2025 Under a community solar program, a third-party, neither the utility company nor the homeowner, owns a solar asset, and a …

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Rice Creek Solar delivers energy to 12 Florida cities

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The Rice Creek Solar Center is the third solar site in the Florida Municipal Solar Project, one of the largest municipal-backed solar projects in the U.S. January 8, 2025 One of the largest municipal-backed solar projects in the U.S. just completed the project’s third installation, Rice Creek Solar Center, which will supply nearly 75 MW …

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Oversized solar farm keeps lights on until midnight

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A massive 2.4 GW solar power plant with a 2:1 DC-to-AC ratio, coupled with six hours of energy storage, is approved in northern Oregon. January 8, 2025 The nation’s largest approved solar and storage project has a secret. Beneath its record-break headline-size announcement is a “hidden” second power plant. And it’s driven by two of …

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Battery anode material AD/CVD worries energy storage and EV market

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A new antidumping/countervailing duties (AD/CVD) investigation could affect domestic manufacturing and deployment of lithium-ion energy storage and EV batteries in the United States. In Dec. 2024, the American Active Anode Material Producers (AAAMP) filed petitions with the Dept. of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission seeking AD/CVD on imports of battery anode materials from China. …

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EDP Renewables announces another 300 MW of solar now operational in Kern County

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Sandrini I and II Solar Energy Parks are now operational with one power purchase agreement signed by Shell and the other with Redwood Coast Energy Authority for its community choice energy program. January 8, 2025 EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA) announced that the Sandrini I & II Solar Energy Parks, located in Kern …

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Treasury posts final rules for new technology-neutral clean energy tax credits

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On January 7, the Dept. of the Treasury and the IRS released final rules for the Clean Electricity Investment and Production Tax Credits — also known as the technology-neutral credits — in tax code sections 45Y and 48E. The Clean Electricity Credits encourage innovation by allowing new zero-emissions technologies to develop over time, while also …

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Treasury releases final rules for IRA low-income bonus credit

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On January 8, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS released final rules and procedural guidance for the Section 48E(h) Clean Electricity Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Amount Program. The 48E(h) program is an expansion of the first-of-its-kind 48(e) bonus credit designed to lower home energy costs and spur clean energy investments in low-income …

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Treasury releases final rules for technology-neutral clean electricity credits

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The final rules for clean electricity production credit and the clean electricity investment credit provide clarity around what clean electricity technologies qualify for the credits. January 8, 2025 The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS released final rules for clean electricity production credit (section 45Y) and the clean electricity investment credit (section 48E), also known …

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RoboForce to debut labor-assisting robot at Intersolar 2025

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Robotic labor startup RoboForce announced it has raised $10 million early stage funding and will debut its technology at the Intersolar conference in San Diego next month. The company is using the funding to emerge from stealth and deploy its Robo-Labor this year for early customers, for whom robots can fulfill labor shortages in harsh outdoor …

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