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Shareholders call on Whole Foods to eliminate single-use plastic packaging

BOSTON – Green Century Capital Management° and Amazon shareholder Sara Sackner, with support from shareholder advocacy organization As You Sow, have jointly filed a shareholder resolution with Amazon.com, Inc.* (Amazon) urging the company to reduce its use of plastic packaging across its operations, including Whole Foods Market. Green Century is PIRG and Environment America’s affiliated …

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Minnesota Public Utilities Commission requires solar be included in future Xcel Energy resource plans

Industry / By Staff

Through a unanimous vote, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) issued an order in Xcel Energy’s 2020 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The decision includes a target of 2.5-GW of new solar by 2030, a requirement that Xcel Energy establish a stakeholder group to address energy equity, and a requirement that distributed energy resources like solar …

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Balance Power gets green light for 50MW battery storage project

News / By Staff

Published: 8 Feb 2022, 00:01 Balance Power currently has 380MW of battery storage in the planning process. Image: Balance Power. Balance Power has been given the green light to develop a 50MW/100MWh battery storage project in Upton Lane, Test Valley, Hampshire. Test Valley Council granted development approval following local support, and construction of the site …

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Sol Systems announces first recipients of Community Impact Agreement with Microsoft

Markets / By Staff

Through a unique power purchase and community impact agreement with Microsoft, Sol Systems announced a total investment of over $1 million in 2022 in five initial partner organizations focused on workforce development, energy access, or community resiliency. The company said it plans to invest at least $50 million in underserved communities in the US. January …

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Supply chain constraints continue to drive up solar contract prices

Finance / By Staff

Ongoing supply chain constraints, rising commodities costs, regulatory uncertainty, and congested interconnection queues, all against the backdrop of exponentially increasing demand for new renewable energy projects, combined to put upward pressure on power purchase agreement (PPA) prices during the fourth quarter of 2021 and across the entire year, according to LevelTen Energy, a provider of …

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Biden administration extends Section 201 tariffs on imported CSPV panels and cells

Policy / By Staff

Today the Biden administration announced that it will extend the Section 201 tariffs on imported crystalline silicon solar panels and solar cells above an annual 5GW tariff rate quota, thus upholding the exclusion for bifacial panels and doubling the tariff rate quota for cells. The proclamation is seen as a “balanced solution” by many in the …

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Powin to supply 5.8GWh of batteries for projects in US and Taiwan

Installation / By Staff

The US battery specialist has signed framework agreements with four developers to deliver systems for multiple projects. February 15, 2022 From pv magazine global. Oregon-based Powin Energy announced major supply deals covering a 5.8GWh pipeline of energy storage projects in the US and Taiwan. The company will supply its fully integrated battery storage systems to …

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CPUC Sets Public Workshop To Discuss Independent Report on SoCalGas and Sempra Safety Culture

News / By Staff

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today said it will hold a remote access public workshop to discuss an independently conducted report that was prepared as part of the CPUC’s ongoing investigation into the safety culture of Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and its parent company, Sempra Energy, as follows: WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, …

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Should California make solar more expensive? Inside the climate justice battle

News / By Staff

Parakeets and lovebirds were chirping in Marta Patricia Martinez’s frontyard as a crew of solar installers climbed onto her roof. It was a warm summer afternoon in Watts, a predominantly Latino and Black neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Low-income families faced the specter of punishingly high energy bills if they cranked up the air conditioning. …

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Nation’s environmental leaders urge Governor Newsom to save solar

News / By Staff

70 state and national environmental groups deliver letter to governor on key renewable energy resource SAN FRANCISCO – As the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) considers gutting the state’s bedrock solar program, a broad coalition of national and state environmental organizations delivered a letter Wednesday to CPUC commissioners and Gov. Gavin Newsom urging them to …

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