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Corvias announced Onyx Construction has installed approximately 350 additional solar systems as part of the second phase of its solar project at Fort Riley. The program now includes panels on more than 1,600 homes and is a top solar energy producer in Kansas. The two combined phases will offset an estimated 40% of annual electricity …

Onyx Construction installs rooftop solar on 350 more homes at Kansas military base Read More »

1,376 kW Community Solar Garden in St. Cloud, Minnesota. New Energy Equity ALLETE announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the membership interests of New Energy Equity for approximately $165.5 million, subject to a working capital adjustment. New Energy Equity, with headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland, has completed more than 250 projects …

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Emergent Solar Energy Today, the Indiana General Assembly passed SB 411, which allows local communities to voluntarily adopt regulations that will qualify them as a wind- or solar-ready community. Clean Grid Alliance applauds the Indiana State Legislature for supporting a statewide siting standard that will help facilitate renewable energy development in the state while helping …

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As the Virginia State Corporation Commission crafts final rules for the Commonwealth’s new shared solar program, advocates warn the latest proposal is anti-consumer and anti-business. Virginia’s shared solar law requires each program participant to pay a “minimum bill” to reflect the costs of participating in a shared solar project. The State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) Hearing …

Advocates say Virginia’s proposed minimum bill charge on community solar would “dramatically limit participation” Read More »

In President Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, 2022, he encouraged Congress to send the Build Back Better Act to his desk and emphasized the clean energy incentives within the bill. “Let’s provide investments and tax credits to weatherize your homes and businesses to be energy efficient and you get a tax …

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Credit: PetersenDean A group of 26 California congress members — more than 60% of the state’s Democratic delegation — issued a letter to Alice Reynolds, Char of the California Public Utilities Commission, urging the CPUC to keep solar growing, affordable and contributing to state and national climate goals. The CPUC could unveil a new decision …

26 California congress members ask CPUC chair for solar-friendly net-metering decision Read More »

California community choice aggregator MCE will provide $715,000 to Pittsburg Unified School District to pay for 1.6 MW of a combination of 2-hour and 4-hour duration lithium batteries for a total of 3 MWh at 10 of the 13 district campuses. The batteries will be paired with 2.3 MW of existing solar. The school district will …

California school district set up with 3-MWh battery resiliency project Read More »

Solar contractors Pivot Energy and Standard Solar have completed a 2-MW solar project in Jefferson County, Colorado. It was the fifth and final project in a series of community solar developments launched by the companies’ partnership in 2019 which aimed to expand community solar access across the state. Credit: Standard Solar Pivot developed the project …

Pivot Energy, Standard Solar partnership results in 8.9 MW of Colorado community solar Read More »

A church installation by Ipsun Solar. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced this week that nonprofits RE-volv, Green The Church and Interfaith Power & Light will receive financial, analytical and facilitation support as they assist BIPOC-led houses of worship around the country to go solar, as part of the third …

NREL-backed nonprofit team to advance solar for BIPOC houses of worship Read More »

Courtesy landseahomes.com SunPower and Landsea Homes Corporation, a publicly traded residential homebuilder, announced a multi-year exclusive agreement in which SunPower will be the only provider of solar technology to Landsea Homes across the nation. With this new relationship, all homes built by Landsea Homes in California will include a SunPower Equinox home solar system designed …

SunPower signs on to new solar + storage partnership with premium homebuilder Read More »