The clock is ticking on the IRA’s prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements
Developers and contractors should create and implement compliance programs to ensure appropriate record-keeping to substantiate their payment of prevailing wages and use of appropriate apprenticeship programs.
New Jersey boosts solar with new Competitive Solar Incentive program
The CSI program helps residents continue the fight against climate change by increasing the supply of clean energy, while bringing down the costs of solar generation.
Sunrise brief: Don’t let the solar lights go out in California
Also on the rise: American Battery Factory chooses Tucson as the place for giga-plant. Biden admin wants to shore up resiliency with solar-plus-storage in Puerto Rico. And more.
How clean energy technologies achieve commercial success
Analysts study lab-to-market pathways for clean energy technologies including a look at the development of First Solar’s cadmium-telluride thin film solar modules.
Freepoint constructs 7 MW community solar project in Greene County, N.Y.
The project developed on a 32-acre parcel southwest of Coxsackie, N.Y. will serve about 650 residential and commercial customers in Central Hudson Gas service territory.
Even with tariffs in place, there’s still room for growth in solar installations
A significant volume of solar cells and wafers made in southeast Asia by the largest solar manufacturers in the world, including Jinko, JA Solar, LONGi, Trina, may have the opportunity to legally avoid the tariffs.
Don’t let the solar lights go out in California
California deserves its shining reputation as an incubator of innovative environmental policies that protect our planet. But the Golden State is now at risk of dimming its own success.
Market headwinds persist through 2023 for rapid deployment of renewable energy, report finds
A Deloitte survey of power sector executives found that 56% of respondents think it could take two to three years to ease supply chain constraints in the U.S. clean energy market.
Transmission needed to carry wind power from the central U.S. eastward, DOE finds
To cost-effectively reach a high level of renewable generation, additional transmission will be needed to connect the wind belt in the central U.S. to eastern grids, according to early results from a Department of Energy study.
Biden admin seeks $3 billion for rooftop solar and storage in Puerto Rico
The unincorporated territory continually suffers from grid blackouts following the landfall of hurricanes.
