With the solar industry divided on whether to restrict 45X tax incentives for Chinese companies and from other “foreign entities of interest,” groups express concern that legislators didn’t act on a recent bill. September 10, 2024 Tax credits made available through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have created a controversy within he U.S. Solar with …
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DOE developed the roadmap through its “i2X” process involving regulators, utilities and other stakeholders. The acronym stands for Interconnection Innovation e-Exchange. The draft roadmap offers 37 “possible strategies, not prescriptive fixes” to resolve four broad challenges: timeline and process delays, high grid upgrade costs, lack of grid transparency, and incomplete or outdated technical standards. The …
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The state Supreme Court overruled the Public Service Commission’s attempt tochange the longstanding net metering law, which would have reduced compensation for “customer-generators” from the full retail rate to the avoided cost rate. September 10, 2024 The Wyoming Supreme Court has overturned the Wyoming Public Service Commission’s (PSC) approval of a change to net metering, …
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I get it. I do. As stewards of U.S. taxpayer money, I understand the impulse behind a bipartisan group of senators’ introduction of the American Tax Dollars for American Solar Manufacturing Act. Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced the bipartisan legislation to prevent “foreign entities of …
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Module manufacturer Maxeon says that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have detained all of its panel imports from Mexico since July as the federal law enforcement agency investigates their compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). September 5, 2024 From pv magazine Global Maxeon, a Singapore-based PV module manufacturer, said in its …
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By the decade’s end, data centers in the United States are projected to account for as much as 35 GW of demand and about 9% of the country’s electricity consumption. Though these are merely forecasts, to power the 24/7, 365-day operations, utilities plan to finance dozens of GWs worth of new generation resources from clean energy to natural gas. According …
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) new Programa de Comunidades Resilientes will fund solar and battery storage facilities across Puerto Rico serving low- and moderate-income communities. August 29, 2024 From ESS News The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a $325 million funding opportunity with the goal to improve community-level energy resilience for vulnerable …
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Jobs in the solar industry grew 5.3%, and the Department of Energy expects this to double the share of electricity generation from clean energy sources by 2030. August 28, 2024 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the 2024 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), which shows that the energy workforce overall added over 250,000 …
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